Threat Countermeasures Branch Manager

Leidos•Dayton, OH

About The Position

Leidos is seeking a qualified professional to lead a high-performance team researching and developing aircraft protection technologies for the US Air Force. In this role, you and your team members will help our customers address their demanding challenges. You will work with your technical teams, other subject matter experts, and business development staff, to develop and apply optimal and differentiated Leidos solutions in the technical areas of aircraft threat countermeasures. You will have direct program management responsibility for classified research and development contracts as well as responsibility for all contract activities being performed in your Branch.

Requirements

U.S. citizen with an active Top Secret/SCI clearance.
Experience in at least one or more of the following: Electro-optic (EO) and/or infrared sensing, IR threat countermeasures, threat countermeasure modeling and simulation, and foreign threat exploitation.
Master’s degree with at least 15 years of prior relevant experience or PhD with at least 13 years of prior relevant experience in engineering or physics.
Strong technical breadth and depth in support of relevant government markets
Experience as a program manager of government research and development contracts
Demonstrated technical leadership

Nice To Haves

Hardware-in-the-loop testing experience.
Demonstrated ability to author, present, and articulate requirements and associated solutions in settings supporting customers and business development
Experience in customer relationship building

Responsibilities

Managing the Threat Countermeasures Branch to ensure customer research and development requirements are being met.
Managing one or more DoD contracted research and development efforts
Collaborating with your Branch staff, customer organizations, and other parts of Leidos to develop differentiated solutions resulting in new business opportunities
Ensuring all contracts within your Branch are executed properly within budget and on schedule
Establishing Leidos best practices, lessons learned, and technological approaches related to threat sensing, threat countermeasures, modeling and simulation are pursued
Line management of multiple teams with a total of over 30 highly technical staff
Managing and reporting on Branch financial performance against established annual goals
Pursuing opportunities to propose solutions that will address the challenges of current and future Branch customers