Test Engineering Manager
About The Position
The Test Engineering Manager leads engineering teams, manages projects, and ensures technical excellence in systems integration, testing, and the design and delivery of custom test systems. The role provides technical leadership, manages resources, and drives continuous improvement while aligning engineering activities with business goals. The manager is responsible for engineering activities across a technical domain, including resource acquisition, planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of engineering efforts. The position oversees project status, budgets, schedules, risks, staffing, process compliance, training, and improvement initiatives, and communicates regularly with customers, suppliers, project teams, and internal management. It also contributes to technical and teaming strategies and proposal development. The role is fully on-site in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Some travel may be required. A Department of Defense Secret clearance must be obtainable within a reasonable time, and U.S. citizenship is required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience, plus at least 8 years of relevant supervisory experience; or a master's degree plus at least 6 years of experience.
- Department of Defense Secret security clearance obtainable within a reasonable time, subject to U.S. Government investigation and eligibility requirements.
- U.S. citizenship is required due to the nature of work performed at the facilities.
- Strong leadership, written and verbal communication, creative thinking, multitasking, and complex-task execution skills.
- Knowledge of torpedo concepts of deployment, operations, and sustainment.
- Ability to apply or develop advanced technologies, principles, theories, and concepts.
- Ability to communicate issues, impacts, and corrective actions across teams.
- Ability to understand and apply project leadership principles, including SPI, CPI, earned value management, and Cost Account Management (CAM).
- Experience driving continuous improvement in engineering processes and tools.
- Ability to collaborate with resources outside the functional or program team.
- Ability to manage complex activities, establish and achieve operational objectives, recruit, manage, and retain personnel, and guide activities across a technical domain.
- Typically strong experience in the area of expertise and recognition as an expert internally and externally.
- Some travel may be required.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of torpedo deployment concepts, operations, and sustainment.
- Experience applying advanced engineering technologies, principles, theories, and concepts.
- Proficiency in Schedule Performance Index (SPI), Cost Performance Index (CPI), earned value management, and Cost Account Management (CAM).
- Experience developing executable engineering project plans and technical proposals.
- Experience identifying technical risks, developing mitigation plans, and managing risk profiles.
Responsibilities
- Define technology, tool, and process strategy across a technical domain.
- Oversee engineering aspects of a technical domain, including acquisition of critical resources.
- Direct, coordinate, and exercise functional authority over planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of engineering efforts.
- Identify project risks, assess issues, and develop resolutions that meet cost, schedule, productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals.
- Review project and budget status, manage schedules, and prepare status reports.
- Develop mechanisms to monitor project progress and intervene or solve problems with project managers, line managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
- Serve as liaison between project management and planning, project teams, and line management.
- Select, develop, and evaluate personnel, and address merit planning, performance reviews, and disciplinary actions.
- Participate in technical and teaming strategy development and proposal processes, including creating executable project plans.
- Ensure engineering process compliance and lead process improvement activities.
- Determine and implement organizational training needs for the technical domain.
- Ensure domain engineers develop risk mitigation plans and manage risk profiles.
- Communicate regularly with customers, suppliers, project teams, internal management, and other personnel in the area of responsibility.
- Manage work, set objectives, meet commitments, allocate resources, and delegate assignments to develop solutions.
- Recommend policy changes and establish procedures affecting the immediate organization.
- Identify opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation.
Benefits
- 401(k) matching
- Paid parental leave
- Healthcare benefits
- Health and wellness programs
- Employee resource and social groups
- Career opportunities for continuous learning and development
- Flexible schedules, including an optional 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off
- Competitive benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
