Associate Manager, Systems Engineer

Job Title: Associate Manager Systems Engineering

Job Code: 45684

Job Location: Mason, OH - On Site

Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

As a Systems Engineering Associate Manager for our Infrared (IR) sensors business area, you will lead a team of engineers that work to solve our customers’ most difficult technical challenges. Your role will include both functional management as well as individual technical contributor. You would be involved in planning activities to address development activity processes and procedures. You could be the technical lead of the program team, perform technical planning, design, analysis, implementation, system integration, validation and verification. Analyses are performed at all levels to include concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal. This position supports the Advanced Effects (AE) Segment, a great team of talented professionals with world class technical expertise who take a collaborative approach to engineering and enjoy working together. We have a long history of innovative and exceptional performance; we have earned our place as a trusted provider to our customers.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for determining staffing requirements and adjusting staffing levels as necessary to ensure that the department’s workface is appropriately staffed with qualified individuals.
• Requires strong knowledge of job area. Typically viewed as having a specialty within discipline. May have broad knowledge of project management.
• Review BOEs and other artifacts / deliverables for technical quality / process adherence
• Support / lead technical planning, system integration, validation, and verification activities in support of programs and development efforts.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution.
• Systems Analysis - Determine how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes / performance.
• Systems Evaluation - Identify measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance relative to the goals of the system.
• Customer Interaction - Technical Point of Contact to our customers and our suppliers.
• Demonstrated experience with designing, developing, testing, and delivering
• Demonstrated experience in architecture, specification, implementation, simulation, test, verification, validation, and debugging
• Demonstrated complex problem solving and decision making - Able to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions; able to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution
• Experience writing BOEs and supporting proposals
• System test and evaluation requirements development experience.
• Ability to obtain a US security clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Demonstrated experience leading a team or project within the IR (Infrared) field
• Demonstrated experience in a technical discipline supporting sensors products
• Experience writing BOEs and supporting proposals
• Demonstrated experience in architecture, specification, implementation, simulation, test, verification, validation, and debugging
• Demonstrated complex problem solving and decision making - Able to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions; able to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work well within and outside of the organization including customers, vendors, and leadership with minimal oversight
• Knowledge of military specifications, design processes, and hardware test/verification procedures.