Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BAE Systems develops advanced defense, aerospace, and electronic systems for air, land, sea, and space applications. The company is seeking a Hardware Engineering Manager to lead electrical engineers, manage hardware engineering execution, support staffing and talent development, and oversee product lifecycle activities for Electronic Combat Solutions programs.
Responsibilities
- Leading and managing a team of approximately 10 electrical engineers
- Hiring and staffing hardware engineers in support of program needs
- Personnel performance and development
- Hardware engineering program execution and scope management
- Agile product development and decision making
- Application of hardware and engineering processes on programs
- Staying technically relevant through the execution of individual programs
- Collaborate with engineering talent leads to develop staffing strategies to meet the business needs
- Staff current and projected hardware engineering needs for business area programs
- Develop a talent pipeline which aligns with current and future business needs
- Identify and grow capabilities in critical skill areas identified for the business
- Work closely with project engineering managers and hardware managers to ensure successful hardware execution on programs
- Monitor hardware execution of programs through performance metrics
- Oversee and ensure adherence to hardware process through lifecycle phases including: design development, verification, integration, and production support
- Drive scope management through understanding of technical baselines, proposal positions, and execution plans
- Serve as design review chair or assessor for development programs to ensure reviews meet hardware guidelines, and to ensure appropriate rigor in design efforts
- Support proposal efforts for hardware engineering to capture new business
- Review hardware bids and proposals ensuring appropriate assumptions, risk and opportunities
- Provide employees with performance assessments for mid-year reviews, end-of-year reviews, and throughout the year
- Develop employees on team
- Support key initiatives in business area or in discipline to meet yearly objectives and continuous improvement goals
- Provide communication of hardware engineering performance to business and discipline senior leadership
- Communicate with team members through regular staff meetings and other means
Skills
- Eligible to obtain a DOD Secret Security Clearance
- Electrical engineering degree
- BSE with 12+ years experience or MSE and 10+ years experience
- Ability to drive activities to closure
- Experience leading engineering teams
- Experience with the design, build, integration and/or test of complex electronic systems
- Motivated self-starter with leadership skills and ability to effectively work in a team environment
- Excellent problem solving skills, judgment, and analytical capability
- Experience presenting technical information to program teams and/or customers
- Strong technical writing and verbal communication skills
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Active DOD Security Clearance
- Strong understanding of Product Lifecycle management processes
- Demonstrated success managing all hardware engineering aspects of requirements definition, design, integration, test and delivery of complex Electronic Warfare systems
- Prior Project Engineer / Control Account Manager (CAM) experience, including managing earned value metrics, such as Cost Performance Index (CPI) and Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
- Proficiency using MS Office and MS Project
- Demonstrated ability to work across disciplines, driving schedules while maintaining costs
Benefits
- Every other Friday off
- Flextime
- Hybrid work environments
- Educational and career development opportunities
- A culture of recognition for the extraordinary contributions of skilled employees
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