Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Dynamics Mission Systems engineers high-technology solutions, products, and services for customers across defense and scientific missions. The Engineering Manager will lead engineering efforts for the Advanced Ground Solutions Business Segment, overseeing technical strategy, personnel activities, process improvements, budgets, project risks, and cross-functional coordination across multiple sites.
Responsibilities
- Directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of engineering efforts within the Advanced Ground Solutions Business Segment and across multiple geographically-diverse sites, in support of all Advanced Ground Solutions missions
- Conducts people activities such as performance management, hiring, headcount management and forecasting, close collaboration with our Learning and Organizational Development team on training and development, and employee recognition
- Supports key technical initiatives and/or problem resolution
- Leads improvements in engineering through process change and implementation of new methods/tools and application of appropriate resources
- Supports financial activities such as Engineering budgets/forecasts and financial analysis (direct/indirect labor usage)
- Provides leadership in defining technology, tool and process strategy across a technical domain
- Overall responsibility for the engineering aspects of a technical domain, to include the acquisition of critical resources
- Directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of engineering efforts within area of responsibility
- Capable of identifying project risks, assessing issues and developing resolutions that meet cost, schedule productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives
- Review’s status of projects and budgets, manages schedules, and prepares status reports
- Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, clients and other stakeholders
- Serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management
- Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function
- Handles personnel issues within area of responsibility including merit planning, performance reviews and disciplinary actions
- Participates in development of technical strategies and teaming strategies in technical domain
- Participates in the proposal process, including the development of executable project plans on proposals
- Ensures process compliance of all engineering activity in area of responsibility
- Leads specific process improvement activities
- Determines and implements the organizational training needs in accordance with the requirements of the technical domain
- Ensures that domain engineers are active in developing risk mitigation plans and managing their risk profiles
- May have budget responsibilities
- Frequently interacts with subordinate supervisors and employees
- Communicates regularly with project customer, and suppliers, project team, and internal management
- Regular contact with all other personnel in area of responsibility
- Receives assignments in the form of objectives and determines how to use resources to meet schedules and goals
- Provides guidance to subordinates within the latitude of established company policies
- Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s)
- Expected to manage work, set objectives and meet commitments for self and others
- Delegates assignments to others for developing solutions
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant supervisory experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of experience
- Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information
- Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required
- * Strong leadership skills
- * Applies or develops highly advanced technologies, principles, theories and concepts
- * Strong written and verbal communications skills, bridges communication across teams
- * Strong ability to think creatively
- * Strong ability to multi-task, skilled at executing complex tasks
- * Strong ability in communicating issues, impacts, and corrective actions
- * Strong ability to understand and apply project leadership principles including SPI/CPI, Earned Value, Cost Account Management (CAM)
- * Strong experience in driving continuous improvement in Engineering process and tools
- * Works collaboratively with resources external to the functional or program team
- * Responsible for establishing and achieving operational objectives for a moderately complex function, program or program scope
- * Expected to integrate complex activities
- * Strong proficiency at all responsibilities associated with the position
- * Strong ability to recruit, manage and retain people
- * Typically has strong experience in this area of expertise
- * Understands, evaluates and guides the focus of all activities in a technical domain
- * Recognized internally and externally as an expert in their field
- * Demonstrates consistently high ratings on People Commitments
- * Travel may be required
- * Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation
- Department of Defense Secret security clearance is preferred at time of hire
Benefits
- This position can be on-site, hybird/flex, or remote.
- You will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded.
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