Senior Systems Engineering Lead – Aerospace & Defense

InvestedintheMission; Lawrence (KS); On-site; USD 155,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401K with company matching

9/80 work schedule

Paid holiday shutdown

Job summary

InvestedintheMission seeks a Chief Engineer, Systems to act as a technical liaison among Engineering, Program Management, Operations, and Supply Chain to optimize customer requirements, ensure feasibility, and control cost and schedule. You will oversee a portfolio of engineering projects within the design and development team led by the Director of Engineering.

You will mentor engineers, develop system requirements and specifications, and lead design reviews and technical briefings for internal

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM required.
• 15 years of experience in an engineering design or development environment.
• 3 years of project management experience (PMP or CAPM a plus).
• Experience with integrating new capabilities onto platforms, requiring flow-down of requirements to lower-level systems.
• Experience project planning in terms of schedule, budget, and resource estimations.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates customer-provided requirements and identifies platform impacts, cost, schedule, and technical performance risks and communicates those to key stakeholders.
• Contributes to the development of new product requirements through consultations with Program Managers and end customers.
• Assists in the review and analysis of proposals, specifications, and Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
• Assists in defining system requirements and in the generation of specifications for products or sub-systems.
• Provide critical input to the preparation of successful proposal designs, cost estimates, and technical responses with regards to resources (personnel, equipment, etc.).
• Ensures that integration efforts will satisfy all performance requirements, achieve delivery schedule, stay within budget, and meet cost targets.
• Reviews Engineering Change Proposals (ECP), Requests for Deviation (RFD), and maintains system configuration baselines.
• Mentors and guides engineering personnel to improve technical and leadership skills
• Works with applicable Program Manager and customer leads to facilitate the resolution of technical issues.
• Creates necessary documentation, such as requirements documentation, high-level design specifications and test plans.
• Develops and present materials for project related briefings including design reviews to be given to internal and external customers.
• Acts as a resource for the development and review of specifications, CDRL’s and ICD’s.
• Partners with senior leadership, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and other groups in setting priorities, establishing strategic plans, and addressing issues that cross departmental boundaries.
• Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.

Skills

Project management

Systems integration

Requirements analysis

Model-based engineering

Troubleshooting

Technical communication

Leadership

Schematic reading

Cross-functional collaboration

Avionics & RF

GPS/navigation systems

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM

Master’s Degree in Mechanical/Aerospace/Electrical/Systems Engineering

Job description

InvestedintheMission seeks a Chief Engineer, Systems to act as a technical liaison among Engineering, Program Management, Operations, and Supply Chain to optimize customer requirements, ensure feasibility, and control cost and schedule. You will oversee a portfolio of engineering projects within the design and development team led by the Director of Engineering.

You will mentor engineers, develop system requirements and specifications, and lead design reviews and technical briefings for internal