Electrical Engineering Branch Manager

Leidos•Huntsville, AL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Leidos Defense Systems Sector provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions. Leidos Kinetic Effects Business Area, Hypersonics Division is seeking a qualified Electrical Engineering Branch Manager for its Hypersonics Engineering and Integration Department. The position will manage a team of engineers that provide requirements definition, analysis, design, assembly, and test of flight grade electrical and avionic products. The position will be approximately 70% technical and 30% managerial.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field from an ABET accredited school is required.
12 years of relevant experience.
Experience in requirements definition, design, development and test of electrical systems relative to weapon systems.
Missile Systems experience with one of more of the following areas: digital and analog circuit design, inertial instruments, GPS, Telemetry, flight termination electronics integration, test and troubleshooting required.
Circuit design experience – analog, digital, power.
Experience managing a team is required.
Candidate must be a resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama, AL area.
Candidate must have Secret Clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience and demonstrated skill in project or people management.
Proposal writing or business development.
Project estimating.
Understanding of Systems Engineering processes.
Test planning.
CONOP development for assembly, integration and testing of hardware.
Management of design teams.
Software skills – C, MATLAB, Simulink.
Knowledge of Real-time Operating System.
Hardware-in-the-Loop.
Organizational skills to document designs, assist with Technical Data Packages (TDP) and support production and test of systems.
Experience supporting business development through marketing and generating proposals.
Technical leadership of weapon system and architecture development tasks.

Responsibilities

Serve as the Electrical Engineering Branch Manager overseeing and leading a team of engineers in the electrical design of hardware and software for weapon system development.
Oversee analog/digital circuit design, parts design, materials evaluation, requirements specification and source selection of missile components.
Work with software running on a real-time operating system.
Support design for hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) equipment.
Oversee the documentation of electrical designs.
Provide personnel to assist in preparation of RFP for component manufacturing, including parts management, quality, test requirements and documentation.
Provide personnel to assist supplier surveillance during installation and inspection.
Review technical drawings and update/correct as needed.
Manage a team of engineers.
Develop integrated master schedules.
Plan required to execute small to large sized programs.
Support business development through marketing and generating proposals.
Provide technical leadership of weapon system and architecture development tasks.