Advanced Systems Engineer - Development Project Engineer

General Dynamics • McLeansville, NC

136d • $110,175 - $122,225

About The Position

General Dynamics Mission Systems has an immediate opening for an Advanced Systems Engineer - Development Project Engineer (DPE). This position provides an opportunity to further advance the cutting-edge technology that supports some of our nation's core defense/intelligence services and systems. General Dynamics Mission Systems employees work closely with esteemed customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions. The Advanced Systems Engineer - DPE role is responsible for planning, monitoring, and organizing engineering resources required to design, procure, build, test and document new developments and modification to existing products. For the purposes of program execution, this position will report directly to the DPME. The Advanced Systems Engineer - DPE supplements the existing leadership team including DPME and IPT leads. He/She will focus on cross-functional handovers through collecting/tracking metrics or other artifacts and ensuring tasking is correctly reflected and accomplished in the IMS (including risk mitigation). He/She meets with the IPT leads to review status of these handovers to ensure they are on track and any issues are understood in advance. The IPT's are focused on their product in conjunction with the Advanced Systems Engineer to ensure an understanding of upstream and downstream needs, impacts and dependencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field
• 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience
• Agile experience preferred
• Department of Defense Secret security clearance is preferred at time of hire
• U.S. citizenship is required

Nice To Haves

• Experience with or ability to quickly learn PDM software (Windchill preferred)
• Familiarity with MRP/ERP systems (IFS preferred)
• Strong background in electrical/mechanical systems, packaging methods
• Creative thinker motivated to apply technical standards and methodologies to develop solutions
• Collaborative team player with the ability to provide technical leadership and position others for success
• Strong presentation and communications skills with experience in the art of negotiation

Responsibilities

• Participates in proposal activities
• Establishes background knowledge on proposed scope to inform for program execution
• Accountable to DPME and expected to operate with limited oversight
• Coordinates the interface between manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and the engineering IPTs to support the first article engineering builds
• Creating long- and short-term plans, including setting targets for detailed tasks, adhering to program milestones and tracking resources
• Ensure risk mitigation and opportunities are incorporated in IMS and tracked as tasks
• Collects, reviews, analyses and acts on project metrics and data to manage resources toward meeting project commitments and deliverables objectives
• Executes as peer review leader
• Initiating material procurements and interfacing with Supply Chain, Vendors and Manufacturing to ensure resource availability to support build schedules
• Ensures product bill of material is maintained, and accurate by coordinating inputs from IPT lead and product team through PDM system workflows
• Provides visibility into material order status and elevates issues to IPT leads and DPME as necessary using MRP system reporting and analytics
• Collects and coordinates inputs from technical leads to consolidate BOM
• Provides continuity from proposal to execution for material

Benefits

• 401k matching
• flex time off
• paid parental leave
• healthcare benefits
• health & wellness programs
• employee resource and social groups
• flexible schedules with every other Friday off work (9/80 schedule)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree