Test Engineering Manager

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant supervisory experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of experience.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS:

Department of Defense Secret security clearance obtainable within reasonable time based on requirements. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities for this Position

Imagine a world-class engineering environment with exceptional talent and advanced technologies that are often classified. At General Dynamics Mission Systems, you’ll work with amazing engineers to invent the technologies, products, and services that help our service members, intelligence analysts, and first responders keep our nation safe. We provide premium systems and services to the Department of Defense, government agencies, and commercial clients across areas including acoustic sensors, signal processing, combat systems, torpedoes, cybersecurity, knowledge management, and electronic warfare. If you want the chance to lead, it's time to bring your talent to General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS)!

The Test Engineering Manager is responsible for leading engineering teams, managing projects, and ensuring technical excellence across areas of systems integration, testing, and design and delivery of custom test systems. This role provides technical leadership, manages resources, and drives continuous improvement while aligning engineering activities with business goals.

We encourage you to apply if you have any of these skills or experiences:

• Knowledge of torpedo deployment concepts, operations, and sustainment.
• Experience applying advanced engineering technologies, principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proficiency in the 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.

Duties and Tasks:

• Provides leadership in defining technology, tool and process strategy across a technical domain
• Overall responsibility for the engineering aspects of a technical domain, to include the acquisition of critical resources
• Directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of engineering efforts within area of responsibility
• Capable of identifying project risks, assessing issues and developing resolutions that meet cost, schedule productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives
• Review’s status of projects and budgets, manages schedules, and prepares status reports
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, clients and other stakeholders
• Serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management
• Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function
• Handles personnel issues within area of responsibility including merit planning, performance reviews and disciplinary actions
• Participates in development of technical strategies and teaming strategies in technical domain
• Participates in the proposal process, including the development of executable project plans on proposals
• Ensures process compliance of all engineering activity in area of responsibility
• Leads specific process improvement activities
• Determines and implements the organizational training needs in accordance with the requirements of the technical domain
• Ensures that domain engineers are active in developing risk mitigation plans and managing their risk profiles
• Frequently interacts with subordinate supervisors and employees
• Communicates regularly with project customer, and suppliers, project team, and internal management
• Regular contact with all other personnel in area of responsibility
• Receives assignments in the form of objectives and determines how to use resources to meet schedules and goals
• Provides guidance to subordinates within the latitude of established company policies
• Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s)
• Expected to manage work, set objectives and meet commitments for self and others
• Delegates assignments to others for developing solutions

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong leadership skills
• Existing knowledge of torpedo concepts of deployment, operations, and sustainment
• Applies or develops highly advanced technologies, principles, theories and concepts
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, bridges communication across teams
• Strong ability to think creatively
• Strong ability to multi-task, skilled at executing complex tasks
• Strong ability in communicating issues, impacts, and corrective actions
• Strong ability to understand and apply project leadership principles including SPI/CPI, Earned Value, Cost Account Management (CAM)
• Strong experience in driving continuous improvement in Engineering process and tools
• Works collaboratively with resources external to the functional or program team
• Responsible for establishing and achieving operational objectives for a moderately complex function, program or program scope
• Expected to integrate complex activities
• Strong proficiency at all responsibilities associated with the position
• Strong ability to recruit, manage and retain people
• Typically has strong experience in this area of expertise
• Understands, evaluates and guides the focus of all activities in a technical domain
• Recognized internally and externally as an expert in their field
• Demonstrates consistently high ratings on People Commitments
• Some travel may be required
• Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation

Our Commitment to You:

• An exciting career path with opportunities for continuous learning and development.
• Research-oriented work alongside award-winning teams developing practical solutions for our nation’s security.
• Flexible schedules with every other Friday off, if desired (9/80 schedule).
• Competitive benefits, including 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, healthcare benefits, health and wellness programs, employee resource and social groups, and more.
• See more at gdmissionsystems.com/careers/why-work-for-us/benefits

Workplace Options:

This position is fully on-site in Canonsburg PA and there may be some options to flex moving forward.

Salary Note

Combined Salary Range

Company Overview

General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of 12,000+ top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defense and scientific arenas. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency. We offer highly competitive benefits and pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose. You will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high-performance team!

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans