Dir I- Technical

BAE Systems•Totowa, NJ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As part of our Electronic Combat Solutions Systems Engineering team, you’ll join a diverse group of driven professionals who architect, design, develop, build, integrate, test, and support products and systems that enable our service men and women to execute their missions and return home safely. We are looking for a self-motivated engineering leader to join our Electronic Combat Solutions business area as a Chief Engineer. As a Chief Engineer on a project or product family, you will be the technical conscience of the program, ensuring the system(s), product(s), and service(s) being developed and delivered are viable, fit for purpose, and will satisfy customer needs, product/system requirements, and the mission and/or application. The CE is the primary owner of the technical solution and the technical interface to Program, Engineering, Functional and Executive leadership. In this Chief Engineer position you will make impacts in the following ways: Technical Solution Definition, Viability and Adequacy: Leads (system) architecture design and optimization activities, trades and analyses Ensures system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer/mission needs within allocated engineering cost & schedule Ensures system design is realizable, maintainable, supportable and testable Drives technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation/realization Technical interface to Customer, PMO and executive leadership: Extensive outside contact with customers, other contractors, and government officials Prepare and deliver customer and technical presentations Understand requirements, missions, use cases, and constraints Technical risks and issues including impact assessment, mitigation, minimization and closure plans.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience in a relevant field) with a minimum work experience of: 10+ Years with BS
8+ Years with MS
6+ Year with PHD
Possess an Active US Government security clearance (with ability to possess TS)
Experience leading development of Electronic Warfare, RADAR, Communications, and/or Missile systems
Technical leader for significant size team (Chief Engineer, Project Engineering Manager, or equivalent
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related engineering discipline and 10+ years of experience
5+ years of experience as a Chief Engineer or equivalent leading development of Electronic Warfare systems
Formal Root Cause and Corrective Action training or equivalent experience
Model based systems engineering experience with tools such as MagicDraw
Active United States security clearance, Top Secret, SCI Eligible
Experience with Electronic Warfare systems and RADAR systems

Responsibilities

Leads (system) architecture design and optimization activities, trades and analyses
Ensures system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer/mission needs within allocated engineering cost & schedule
Ensures system design is realizable, maintainable, supportable and testable
Drives technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation/realization
Extensive outside contact with customers, other contractors, and government officials
Prepare and deliver customer and technical presentations
Understand requirements, missions, use cases, and constraints
Technical risks and issues including impact assessment, mitigation, minimization and closure plans

Benefits

health, dental, and vision insurance
health savings accounts
a 401(k) savings plan
disability coverage
life and accident insurance
employee assistance program
legal plan
discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance
paid time off
paid holidays
paid parental leave
paid military leave
paid bereavement leave
any applicable federal and state sick leave
company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards