Engineering Manager (Systems Engineering/ System Verification)

Job description

**Job Description**
BAE Systems is seeking an Engineering Manager to support our work as a prime contractor on a high-profile U.S. Navy weapon system.

The ideal candidate will be someone who can lead a team of four to nine engineers toward meeting a set of objectives, demonstrate the behaviors to effectively communicate, coordinate, collaborate, and work in a visible and proactive manner across organizational boundaries to deliver positive results.

This role is fit for someone who can be a highly engaging, team-oriented, problem solving, and self-starting individual able to respond rapidly to a dynamic programmatic environment.

As the Engineering Manager for System Verification, your responsibilities span engineering management, personnel management, and customer relationship management including:

Engineering Management

+ Manage execution of engineering capabilities (people, process, tools) and work products (deliverables) in the areas of System Verification policy and process definition.
+ Ensure the timely development of System Verification products to support issuance of contract deliverables.
+ Support System Verification activities across the engineering lifecycle, for a complex systems-of-systems, including the mapping of requirements to system attributes and interfaces.
+ Identify System Verification assessment characteristics that can be gathered from component level development testing activities for use in system level integration assessments.
+ Support program leadership in the development of presentations and materials to support program reviews.
+ Attending meetings, as necessary, to support tasks above.

Some meeting may occur offsite, requiring local travel to Washington, DC or subsystem development/testing facilities.
+ Applying Modeling-based Systems Engineering tools to develop digital engineering products

Personnel Management

+ Functional management over a four to nine person team to include performance and development objective setting, conduct of semi-annual performance reviews, personnel development and training, annual salary planning, resource planning, balancing workload across personnel, and hiring/onboarding of new personnel.
+ Assemble, lead, and manage high-performance team focused on delivering engineering products and developing innovative solutions to complex mission and business challenges.

Customer Relationship Management

+ Establish and maintain exceptional relationships with GS-14 level US Navy customers/clients to solve technical problems and implement solutions of high complexity.

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**and the U.S. Navy s Strategic Systems Programs (SSP)**

Our organization has supported the U.S. Navy s Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) continually since the program s inception in the 1950s.

SSP developed the first sea-based, underwater-launched Strategic Weapon System (SWS), a defense system that is truly critical to our national security.

For more than six decades, SSP has maintained and upgraded this weapon system and we have been there every step of the way.

The sea-based SWS is the ultimate stealthy weapon system and as the first leg of the U.S. nuclear triad.

With over 70% of our nation s nuclear arsenal its importance to maintaining world peace cannot be overstated.

The development of Columbia, the most advanced nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed submarine ever designed, as well the next D5LE2 weapon system is under way and will begin to be rolled out over the next decade.

The Navy projects this system to be operational through 2084, meaning the program will have a total life span of more than 120 years.

This is a truly unique program and BAE Systems employees on this program understand they are part of an important legacy.

As a decades long sole source partner on multiple contracts on behalf of our customer, our program has remarkable stability and is concurrently experiencing significant growth.

Combined, these factors provide ample opportunity for professional growth and development for capable and talented individuals on our team.
BAE Systems, Inc is the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems, PLC.

BAE Systems, PLC provides some of the world's most advanced, technology-led defense, aerospace, and security solutions.

As one of the top ten defense contractors, we employ a skilled workforce of around 100,000 people in more than 40 countries.

We develop, engineer, manufacture, and support products and systems to protect national security and keep people safe.

**Required Education, Experience, & Skills**
Bachelor of Science degree in Systems, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering

Additional skills/experience required:

+ 8 years experience supporting systems engineering on large DoD programs
+ Experience with major weapon system development product lifecycle and technologies
+ Experience with conducting compatibility analysis of interface requirements
+ Experience with integration of models, software, and / or hardware
+ Experience with various engineering tools / languages including PTC Windchill, IBM DOORS, 2D/3D CAD, SysML, and/or MATLAB Simulink
+ Experience with leading projects involving multiple team members
+ Experience with presenting project status to management and/or the client
+ Experience in organizing and hosting meetings involving multiple stakeholders
+ Willing to travel approximately 10% of the time
+ Must possess strong organizational, time management, and project management skills
+ Proficient with PC and MS Office Suite

**Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills**

+ Experience in managing a team of Engineers
+ 8 years experience supporting systems engineering on large DoD programs
+ Experience with the Navy SSP or TRIDENT programs
+ Prior experience working in missile weapon systems, space, and/or nuclear fields.
+ Experience with technical presentations and customer-facing activities at the leadership level.
+ Demonstrated success partnering with customers to understand critical challenges, shape customer requirements, develop innovative solutions, and manage execution of solutions through implementation
+ Experience with various engineering tools / languages including PTC Windchill, IBM DOORS, 2D/3D CAD, SysML, and/or MATLAB Simulink
+ ASEP or CSEP certification

**Pay Information**
Full-Time Salary Range: $130355 - $221603

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures.

However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being.

Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance.

We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance.

Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave.

Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards.

Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

**Engineering Manager (Systems Engineering/ System Verification)**

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