Senior Deputy Program Manager, Engineering (Engineering Program Manager)

General Dynamics Mission Systems • Florham Park, NJ

18h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Deputy Program Manager, Engineering (DPME) is responsible for overseeing engineering projects, ensuring high-quality deliverables and fostering cross-functional collaboration. The role involves managing engineering resources, resolving technical issues, and maintaining project schedules and budgets. The DPME also plays a key role in risk management, performance feedback, and project change management. The successful candidate will be a hands-on technical leader with sufficient breadth across mechanical, electrical, electro-optical, software, hardware, and operational domains to augment or assume responsibility for a technical lead overseeing multiple engineering IPTs and programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field, plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.
• Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly report relevant information and effectively convey project topics to diverse audiences.
• Creative thinker that is motivated to apply technical standards and methodologies to develop next generation solutions.
• Collaborative team leader with commitment to ongoing professional development for yourself and others.
• Proven success leading the systems development life cycle including strong proficiency with requirements management and system modeling tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills in complex environments.
• Proven organizational and time management skills.
• Leadership skills, including the ability to lead, motivate a team, and resolve conflicts.
• Experience applying digital-engineering and MBSE practices, including Cameo/MagicDraw and SysML concepts, to model the decisions, interfaces, behavior, risks, and traceability that need engineering control.

Responsibilities

• Lead the systems-engineering/project lifecycle including customer engagement, development of requirements, concept development, architecture, design, integration, verification, deployment, and sustainment.
• Elicit customer and user needs and distinguish operational needs from proposed solutions.
• Oversee development of system architectures, operational concepts, requirements hierarchies, interfaces, technical baselines, and verification strategies.
• Work with program management to handle customer negotiations and manage interpersonal dynamics.
• Apply project leadership principles, including SPI/CPI, Earned Value, Cost Account Management (CAM), and Statistical Process Controls for complex programs.
• Anticipate customer technology, process, and operational needs to develop mission critical solutions.
• Lead technical, design, customer, and management reviews; brief technical status, decisions, risks, and recommendations at the level of detail appropriate to the audience.
• Support proposals, technical volumes, basis-of-estimate development, technical risk assessments, and customer technical exchanges.
• Mentor engineers, develop technical leaders, delegate responsibility intentionally, and distribute critical program knowledge across the team.
• Develop and maintain engineering plans as required by the project.
• Ensure all project deliverables (including documentation) are developed with high quality and delivered on time.
• Ensure that all engineering processes adhere to established engineering practices.
• Ensure that total system is integrated, tested, and requirements are validated.
• Identify, develop, analyze, and report engineering project measures internally and externally.
• May manage direct reports and/or be assigned indirect reports for projects or programs.
• Conduct lessons learned after each major phase of the project and implement effective corrective actions as required.
• Manage the resolution of technical issues, communicate the resolution to all affected parties, and ensure that the resolution is carried out in all of the affected artifacts.
• Motivate the engineering team and provides a clear understanding of project goals.

Benefits

• An exciting career path with opportunities for continuous learning and development.
• Research oriented work, alongside award winning teams developing practical solutions for our nation’s security
• Flexible schedules with every other Friday off work, if desired (9/80 schedule)
• Competitive benefits, including 401k matching, flex time off, paid parental leave, healthcare benefits, health & wellness programs, employee resource and social groups, and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior