Director, Aeronautical Systems Engineering

Jobtome; Florida; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Director of Aeronautical Systems Engineering to lead a 700+ engineer organization across multiple sites. The role emphasizes governance, workforce strategy, and program alignment to enterprise objectives, delivering high-assurance aerospace systems with integrity.

The position requires directing staffing, leadership development, and digital engineering initiatives while partnering with PM, Operations, Quality, and executive leadership to ensure technical and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 15 years of prior experience in air vehicle systems engineering or engineering integration.
• Graduate Degree with 13 years of prior experience in air vehicle systems engineering or engineering integration.
• In Lieu of a degree, a minimum of 19 years of prior experience in air vehicle systems engineering or engineering integration.
• Must have an active Secret clearance at the time of hire with the ability to obtain a Top-Secret with SCI.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multi-site Aeronautical Systems Engineering organization of 700+ engineers through subordinate leaders and technical authorities, ensuring strong organizational performance and execution.
• Establish the function’s strategic vision, priorities, and operating model in alignment with sector and enterprise objectives.
• Direct workforce planning, staffing, succession planning, leadership development, and talent pipeline growth to meet current and future business needs.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, engagement, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Own engineering governance, policies, processes, and standards to ensure consistent execution, technical rigor, and compliance with company, customer, contractual, regulatory, airworthiness, safety, security, and quality requirements.
• Lead engineering contributions to capture and proposal efforts, including basis of estimate development, labor forecasting, technical scope definition, risk assessment, and capability positioning.
• Develop and execute technology and capability roadmaps, multi-year capital plans, and engineering investment strategies to support modernization and long-term business and program needs.
• Manage engineering overhead, functional budgets, resource allocation, and productivity initiatives to improve affordability and operational efficiency.
• Champion digital engineering, model-based systems engineering, process modernization, and data-driven decision-making.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to integrate engineering execution across development, test, production, and sustainment.
• Represent engineering in executive reviews, customer engagements, technical interchange meetings, gate reviews, and strategic planning forums.

Job description

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Director of Aeronautical Systems Engineering to lead a 700+ engineer organization across multiple sites. The role emphasizes governance, workforce strategy, and program alignment to enterprise objectives, delivering high-assurance aerospace systems with integrity.

The position requires directing staffing, leadership development, and digital engineering initiatives while partnering with PM, Operations, Quality, and executive leadership to ensure technical and