Manager, Mechanical Engineering

About the position

As a First Line Mechanical Engineering Manager, you are in a dual-role manager position, involving both front-line management of a team of engineers and performance of individual productive work on a program. L3Harris First Line Engineering Managers possess the skills of a top-notch influencer, motivator, and leader who can grow a team of engineers while advancing their own career in a management role and in engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• Direct application of domain expertise on programs.
• Maintain domain competency and apply it through technical guidance, collaboration, or individual task execution on program activities.
• Define, maintain, and improve the function’s lowest level development processes and best practices.
• Ensure staff are properly using best practices and the development processes on their assigned programs.
• Ensure quality of proposal materials / inputs and Estimates To Complete (ETCs).
• Provide regular labor and resource planning to support programs and activities.
• Actively support all phases of hiring activities for the team.
• Support management of morale and work to proactively mitigate attrition.
• Support succession planning and identification/development of key talent.
• Carry out performance management and goal setting of all direct reports, both formal and informal.
• Provide meaningful, constructive feedback to ensure the development of each staff member.
• Lead performance improvement plan formulation and execution as needed.
• Proactively support reward and recognition activities for the staff members.
• Develop and submit merit recommendations during the yearly merit review cycle.
• Perform conflict resolution between teammates as required.
• Take an active role in the professional development of each staff member.
• May include identification, guidance, and support of formal training, on-the-job training, mentoring, and/or new program assignments.
• Proactively mentor, coach, assist, and/or provide additional help to engineers in the analysis, design, build, integration, test, validation, verification, documentation, and/or maintenance of products.
• Foster an individual and team culture of Continuous Improvement (CI).

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline with minimum of 9 years combined experience in engineering and leadership.
• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline with minimum of 7 years combined experience in engineering and leadership.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior Mechanical Engineering and leadership experience.
• Experience with CAD modeling and analysis software.
• Working knowledge of mechanical design best practices, GD&T, high precision manufacturing processes, and common aerospace alloys.
• Prior experience conducting reviews of mechanical designs, analysis, and change notices.
• Experience with creating engineering estimates, plans, and BoE’s.
• Experience of manpower planning, milestone scheduling, and related financial management.
• Proven experience of managing and working in an environment that is fast paced, demanding, with a focus on problem resolution and process improvement.
• Experience with total lifecycle of programs including proposals, bids, planning, assessing/managing risk, and execution.
• Prior experience collaborating effectively with other leadership functions across the organization including Operations, Quality, Program Management, and Business Development.
• Ability to obtain a US Security clearance.

Nice-to-haves

• Prior experience in engineering management.
• Prior experience in aerospace and defense.
• Experience with avionics packaging, high vacuum systems, IR sensor systems packaging, or cryocoolers.
• Experience with Solidworks preferred.
• Experience with Root Cause Corrective Action tools and processes.
• Outstanding communication (both verbal and written), collaboration, time management, presentation, and organization skills.