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Chief Systems Engineer

Cincinnati, OH · Information Technology

All Qualified Resumes Responded to in 24 Hrs or Less
 

Essential Functions:

  • Serve as the company’s technical authority for a family of product line systems and corresponding programs and proposals; serve as the technical point of contact for customers.
  • Serve as the systems engineering functional lead for the product line teams’ lead engineers.
  • Review, analyze, and understand system concept of operation, product architectures, design, and interfaces, and subsystem functions, interfaces, and operations; facilitate knowledge sharing across the project teams.
  • Plan, coordinate, and proactively monitor engineering development, laboratory, range, and live fire testing, and low rate initial production at System and SoS levels.
    • Able to succinctly and effectively brief status and results to program and customer senior leadership.
    • Perform technical analysis / feasibility assessments for new product specifications, evaluate customer specifications, lead multi-discipline trade studies, and lead technical proposal generation.
    • Interface effectively with people at all levels and from diverse technical backgrounds.
    • Provide leadership to teams and guidance to less experienced staff members.
    • Possess exquisite interpersonal skills, able to work effectively within the organization and convey decisions, direction, results, and conclusions in a manner meaningful to the audience.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and a minimum of 15 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
  • Mastery level knowledge within a specific technical area or multiple job areas, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. Viewed as an expert and/or resource within the field by peers in and outside the organization.
  • Demonstrated service as a Program Chief Engineer for a minimum of two years on a large program (i.e., contract value > $100M) with major subcontracts (e.g., at least two suppliers each with a contract value > $5M).
  • Demonstrated leadership experience in product line system development and production programs.
  • Experience with System Integration Lab utilization to reduce field testing demands, and leading multiple subcontract efforts during integration and test.
  • Demonstrated ‘One Team’ collaboration and team building mindset, with internal subsystem team and multiple external suppliers, teammates, platform providers, and DoD organizations across all product lifecycle phases.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work well within and outside of the organization including customers, vendors, and company or program leadership without oversight.

Preferred Additional Skills:.

  • Military customer experience is desired.
  • Strong perference for Naval/Maritime program experience.
  • Contract and supplier negotiation experience is preferred.
  • Previous experience with Infrared (IR), Electro-Optical (EO), or equivalent sensor systems, electronic systems or weapons systems.
  • Prior program experience with logistical support of fielded systems.
  • Previous Program Chief Engineer experience on two or more programs, with at least one program > $250M.

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