Senior Software Engineering Manager – Mission Sensor Manager (Onsite)

RTX•Cedar Rapids, IA

15h•Onsite

About The Position

Picture this: a Blackhawk helicopter soaring through the night sky, navigating treacherous terrain to deliver critical support to soldiers on the ground. Or a Chinook braving hostile environments to transport troops and essential supplies to the front lines. In these high-stakes moments, success hinges on the flawless integration of advanced mission sensors and weapons systems that provide crews with the precision, situational awareness, and reliability they need to perform under extreme conditions. As a Mission Sensor Manager on our Weapons Systems Integration Team, you'll play a pivotal role in designing and integrating these cutting-edge technologies for rotary and fixed-wing platforms, ensuring mission readiness and operational excellence. Specifically, you will lead teams that develop the most sophisticated and trusted avionics systems in the world. Your leadership will ensure that our technology performs flawlessly in the most critical moments, enabling heroes to save lives. Are you ready to join our team and make a difference where it truly matters? Role Overview: Collins Aerospace is seeking a talented Senior Engineering Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team of Systems and Software engineers on their quest to integrate modern mission sensor and weapons systems for the war fighter. This team works in a collaborative environment and performs activities including: requirements definition and analysis, design, development, integration, test, verification, validation, and certification of software products within our Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) and Flight2 Architectures. The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of systems and software development practices, Agile development methodologies, military/commercial certification, and experience leading execution teams. Product Summary: CAAS Management Solutions - Our signature products for Military Avionics and Helicopters as part of the Collins Integrated Avionics Systems, fielded on thousands of aircraft today, at this moment. Specific capabilities include FMS (Flight Management Systems), Performance Application, System Manager, Comm, Flight Director, and Flight Controls. Please see the following links for more details: https://www.collinsaerospace.com/what-we-do/industries/helicopters/rotary-wing/common-avionics-architecture-system

Requirements

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience.
Experience in project engineering/project lead role, with cost and schedule responsibility and strong background in Earned Value Management.

Nice To Haves

Adaptable and flexible to changes in assignments, responsibilities, and resources.
Highly self-motivated and capable of establishing a positive work environment.
Be a self-starter and have strong analytical skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Dedicated to team success over individual success.
Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks while balancing priorities and schedules.
Ability to evaluate and report overall engineering performance to plan as appropriate.
Ability to analyze data and determine appropriate actions to correct program problems before they impact the overall program.
Generate and maintain staffing plans including recruiting, hiring and onboarding
Ability to coach, mentor, and train other engineers.
Experience with Agile development method
Experience with Model Based Development
Experience with Ada programming language
Experience with Atlassian suite of tools, including JIRA

Responsibilities

Technical direction: Candidate must be able to lead a team and apply sound engineering principles related to Avionics software development.
Project management: Candidate must be able to guide team members on the management of scope, schedule, and budget for engineering design activities. Candidate will be directly involved in project management and execution, including Earned Value and Risk Management.
Process management: Candidate must be able to guide team members on the utilization of design and development processes, military avionics certification, and ensure that the design activities are consistent with the product lifecycle development for new and existing products through internal guidance and adherence to external development processes outlined by our customers.
Bids and proposals: Candidate must be able to lead, review, and provide guidance to team members on bid and proposal activities, to include FAR Part 15 and TINA activities.
Personnel administration: Candidate must be able to make hiring decisions, performance assessment decisions, ensure management of personnel issues, and create a highly engaged and motivated team.
10% travel as needed.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
Tuition reimbursement program
Student Loan Repayment Program
Life insurance and disability coverage
Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
Adoption Assistance
Autism Benefit
Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
And more!