About the position
Maritime & Intelligence Systems (M&IS) is a growing business within BDS Space, Intelligence, and Weapon Systems (SI&WS) focused on delivering complex solutions in some of the most challenging environments on Earth. M&IS is seeking a Chief Engineer to join our team in Huntington Beach, CA to support the Integrated Missions portfolio area which defines, designs, and delivers combined platforms, payloads, and integrated technology solutions for complex missions across various domains. IM includes Proprietary programs, Extra Large Uncrewed Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) future missions/payloads, Liquid Robotics subsidiary, and Acoustics Systems focused on Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) processing. This CPE will lead the technical execution of one of our special programs. If you are a motivated senior engineer with exceptional communication skills (oral and written), look forward to a dynamic work environment with a broad range of engineers from many skill areas, and aspire to further develop technical leadership abilities, we are looking for you.
Responsibilities
- Ensures technical conduct, progress, performance, and results are executed in compliance with established requirements, plans, and program charter.
- Is directly responsible and accountable to the Program Manager and has an independent reporting path to the M&IS Senior Director & Chief Engineer for technical excellence and integrity of design, development, production, support, supportability, and mission success.
- Supports program cost and schedule baselines, and design-to-cost targets and cost reduction initiatives, while ensuring the safety and technical excellence and integrity of the products.
- Provides senior technical leadership for the program and associated proposals, and be the senior technical interface to customers and suppliers.
- Represents the perspective of system users and customers in program reviews.
- Establishes a culture of proactive technical oversight, risk management and rapid issue resolution.
- Actively leads and participates in the program Agile work process.
- Regularly assesses the baseline program technical execution plan against technology, complexity, and risk-adjusted benchmarks of similar engineering efforts.
- Advises the program manager and indirect reporting paths if the baseline plan's scope, tasks, inherent processes, resources, deliverables, and/or risks are inconsistent with those benchmarks.
- Prevents traveled technical risk and ensure that technical risks and issues are driven rapidly to closure.
- Oversees the Responsible Engineer (RE) process, where engineers and engineering leadership are assigned over the systems, subsystems, and components for each program.
- Implements and enforces engineering functional excellence in people, processes, tools, and practices.
- Drives productivity improvements through the use of the lean principles/discipline.
- Establishes a culture of technical expertise, service, and availability within the technical community and across the enterprise.
- Works with functional counterparts to ensure process inputs and outputs are clearly defined.
- Monitors Enterprise technology strategy activities and provide inputs to ensure technology insertion and application is relevant to the program.
- Partners with subject matter experts and technology experts in understanding technology development and integration.
- Provides technical oversight of research and development efforts to include customer and internally funded.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science.
- 10+ years of experience in leading engineering team execution.
- 10+ years of experience working with undersea systems engineering, integration, test, and/or operations programs.
- Experience with electronic systems and advanced signal processing.
- Experience with integration and test of maritime surface / underwater platforms, structures, sensors, payloads, or launch and recovery equipment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to lead major program milestone reviews.
- Strong experience in technical work effort estimation processes and tools.
- Interfacing with customers and program leadership on schedule and performance issues.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with defense and intelligence programs.
- Experience with Model-Based Engineering (MBE) methodologies and practices.
- Demonstrated skills in Risk Management and Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) efforts.
- Cost Account Management using Boeing processes and procedures, including Earned Value Management (EVM).
Benefits
- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
- Health insurance.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Health savings accounts.
- Retirement savings plans.
- Life and disability insurance programs.
- Programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
