Systems Engineering Section Manager

BAE Systems Plc•Nashua, NH

50d•$146,670 - $249,330•Onsite

About The Position

Ready to make a difference? 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 role 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 managed balance enables you to work on programs as a technical contributor/leader and manage your systems engineering team. Roles and Responsibilities (Team Manager): You will manage a team of engineers (30-40) supported by functional managers that will report to you. You will report directly to the director of Systems engineering, where he/she will be your guide and mentor. As the section manger of systems engineers, you will have the following responsibilities: As a member of the systems engineering staff help to shape the future of systems engineering 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 Communicate flow-down company, business area and discipline information Mentor careers by development of career and training plans Ensure group members adhere to BAE Systems' cultural principals, policies and vision Roles and Responsibilities (Technical contributor): As an individual contributor, you will be assigned to work on one or more programs applying your systems engineering skills to the entire product lifecycle of a program. 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, veritication and test, tool development, trade studies, testing at customer and USG test facilities, product build support in our factories. Our products are primarily Electronic Warfare systems that enable our warfighters to execute their missions safely. This part of the role, will enable you engage in developing our EW solutions. There will be opportunities to use your exsiting skills and and develop new ones as we work to extend your career path in alignment with your goals and the company needs. Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time onsite. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time

Requirements

Active DoD Secret security clearance.
Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Science and 8 years of work experience.
Experience with Systems engineering development of DoD systems
EW system design experience and product development (System V diagram)
Technical team leadership
Strong skill in people management and team collaboration within systems engineering and across the disciplines
Able to evaluate root cause and timely decision making
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.
Additional technical depth in specific areas of EW such as Electronic Attack (EA) or Electronic Support Measures (ESM)
Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) experience.
System Performance Modeling

Responsibilities

As a member of the systems engineering staff help to shape the future of systems engineering 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
Communicate flow-down company, business area and discipline information
Mentor careers by development of career and training plans
Ensure group members adhere to BAE Systems' cultural principals, policies and vision
product capture and proposals
product design
requirements derivation and allocation
conducting and leading design reviews
creating development plans
design models
performance models
system integration
veritication and test
tool development
trade studies
testing at customer and USG test facilities
product build support in our factories

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, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave
Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards
Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.