Eng Sr Prin II - Sys

BAE Systems•Nashua, NH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Our employees design, integrate, and test the world’s next generation communication and electronic warfare systems for the United States DoD and international customers. You will be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry’s most difficult problems. This role is for a combined Technical Leadership and Engineering Manager Role. We welcome all those who have big ideas, crave innovation, and want to develop, build and work on the world’s most advanced electromagnetic spectrum operations systems – detecting, locating and countering threats for joint and international aircrew. We develop highly sophisticated digital Electronic Warfare (EW) systems, and we are looking for motivated and positive minded engineers highly skilled in Electronic Attack to join cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Come build your career with us. This is a dual role where you will perform in the player-coach model, where some of your time is allocated to being a team manager of engineers and part of your time as an individual contributor. This balance enables you to work on programs as a technical contributor/leader and manage systems engineering team.

Requirements

Active DoD Secret security clearance.
Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Science and 10 years of work experience.
Technical team leadership
Strong skills in people management and team collaboration within systems engineering and across disciplines
Able to evaluate root cause and make timely decisions
Able to lead a team to adapt to changes effectively

Nice To Haves

M.S. in either Systems, Software, or Electrical Engineering
Active DoD Top Secret security clearance
Integration & test experience in EW Systems
Functional management leadership experience (e.g., performance management, staffing)
EW system design experience and product development across engineering lifecycle (e.g., requirements analysis, architecture design/development, integration, verification, sell-off, security accreditation, and maintenance)
Experience with Systems Engineering development of DoD systems
Experience interfacing with internal and external customers
Experience developing/reviewing technical and cost artifacts for new business activities
Experience supporting trade studies, concept of operation development, Cost Account Management, engineering initiatives and agile process application

Responsibilities

As a functional manager you will manage a team of engineers (8-10).
You will report directly to the Systems Engineering Section Manager, where he/she will be your guide and mentor.
As a member of the systems engineering staff, you will help to shape future systems engineers to optimize their performance
Recruit, retain, train, recognize and develop systems engineers to achieve their highest potential in alignment with the business needs
Assign team members as appropriate to programs, IRADs and proposals
Develop individual and group goals and objectives
Collect and provide performance feedback
Communicate flow-down company, business area and discipline information
Mentor and develop career and training plans
Ensure group members adhere to BAE Systems' cultural principals, policies and vision
As a technical contributor your focus will be on delivering innovative Electronic Warfare (EW) solutions.
Individual technical contributions on a related range of Programs will include system development, requirements development, integration & test, and test planning and execution in a field deployment environment.
You will be assigned to work on one or more programs applying your systems engineering skills.
Example of roles that you could have are product capture and proposals, product design, requirements derivation and allocation, conducting and leading design reviews, creating development plans, design models, performance models, system integration, verification and test, tool development, trade studies, testing at customer and USG test facilities, product build support in our factories.
Leading a medium or large team of Systems Engineers on EW related programs
Managing all system engineering content and work products
Understanding and implementing the product development process
Schedule and cost account responsibilities for systems team
Execution of systems planning and requirements development
Creation and review of systems requirements to include software, component, subsystem, and operational concepts
Allocation of requirements to engineering disciplines
Creating system test plans, procedures and reports
Leading product design, development, integration, and verification
Will have outside contact with customers, other contractors and government officials.
Manage and participate in trade studies, peer reviews, and customer meetings
Preparing and delivering technical presentations internally and with customers.
Monitor and report metrics such as System Technical Performance Measures
Supports proposal development activities, including proposal text development, cost and schedule estimating, and presentation activities.
Our products are primarily Electronic Warfare systems that enable our warfighters to execute their missions safely.
This part of the role will enable you to engage in developing our EW solutions.
There will be opportunities to use your existing skills and develop new ones as we work to extend your career path in alignment with your goals and the company needs.

Benefits

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