Program Engineering Manager III
About The Position
BAE Systems Electronic Solutions is seeking a Program Engineering Manager to lead the engineering effort for an entire program, ensuring the solution meets customer programmatic and technical requirements within allocated engineering cost and schedule. The role provides technical responsibility and leadership to cross-functional teams through system design, development, fielding, and support. The manager represents the technical team to project managers, functional organizations, and executive leadership, and develops the overall technical solution for a product or system. The role serves as the decision authority between the Chief Engineer and the engineering team and influences design, development, test, and verification. It also identifies and communicates technical risks and opportunities among the design team, Chief Engineer, and program management team. Successful candidates demonstrate full-scale program execution, risk assessment, leadership, sound decision-making, and analytical skills. This position is full time onsite at a BAE Systems facility, with work conducted onsite 100% of the time. The role partners with program and engineering leadership and functional teams to deliver products and systems that meet customer needs. It is responsible for performance across cost, schedule, and technical measures, engineering bids, customer engineering relationships, workforce and skills development, staffing and budgets, process application and improvement, and developing other team members.
Requirements
- Active Secret security clearance and ability to obtain Special Access Program clearances and DoW Top Secret clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of work experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in engineering development of complex electronic systems and transition to manufacturing.
- Project engineering management experience, including organizational design, planning, estimating, design management, and product verification.
Nice To Haves
- DoW Top Secret clearance.
- Previous experience operating within a Special Access Program environment.
- Experience developing and delivering within a digital engineering ecosystem.
- Experience leading or collaborating with cross-site, cross-business-unit teams.
- Experience leading diverse multidisciplinary teams in solving complex technical problems.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, including soft skills, strategic thinking, business acumen, team building, and customer relationship building.
- Strong planning and organizational skills, including diagnosing and resolving complex problems and developing improved methods to increase program efficiency.
- Proven written and oral communication skills, including presentation skills.
- Strong team-building skills that enable collaboration and coordination within and across teams, functions, and business units.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Program Manager, Chief Engineer, and functional staff to develop and deliver products and systems that meet customer needs.
- Collaborate across disciplines, functions, and business areas to support engineering across the enterprise.
- Meet cost, schedule, and technical performance objectives throughout project life cycles.
- Ensure preparation and approval of competitive engineering bids that are executable, meet established price-to-win targets, and support business growth.
- Serve as the internal and external customer engineering point of contact for the project.
- Identify and support development of critical skills and resources.
- Develop and maintain measures related to engineering performance.
- Ensure appropriate application of processes based on project size and complexity.
- Establish goals, performance standards, budgets, and staffing plans.
- Improve processes and skills to accelerate program execution and improve quality.
- Lead and develop others.
- Lead engineering through system design, development, fielding, and support; influence design, development, test, and verification.
- Identify and communicate technical risks and opportunities to the design team, Chief Engineer, and program management team.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for eligible regular employees scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week.
- Health savings accounts.
- 401(k) savings plan.
- Disability coverage.
- Life and accident insurance.
- Employee assistance program.
- Legal plan.
- Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Paid parental, military, and bereavement leave, as well as applicable federal and state sick leave.
- Company recognition program offering monetary or non-monetary recognition awards.
- Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
