Senior Engineering Manager ( Canonsburg, PA ) Direct Hire Opportunity

 

Salary Plus Benefits

 

This role is on-site in Canonsburg, PA Relocation avialble

 

As the Senior Engineering Manager (SEM), you will be responsible for setting the standard and upholding the high degree of competency required within the engineering group to support critical weapon system engineering processes from early concept development and requirements analysis / definition / management through detailed design / integration / qualification while ensuring adequate technical support for production activities during the sustainment phase.  The successful SEM candidate will provide expert leadership and guidance at all levels of the engineering organization and demonstrate the ability to contribute in a meaningful technical capacity to engineering tasking while managing the organizational needs of and ensuring performance excellence of a mid-sized engineering department. 

 As the SEM, you will work with the Program Manager, Chief Engineer, and program engineering leads to make critical decisions on architecture, design, and technology choices and be the technical beacon for the organization, working with cross functional teams to ensure that customer requirements are correctly analyzed, system requirements are developed and allocated to lower levels (subsystem, elements, and components), and plans for verification and validation are fully defined and executed. You will collaborate with external stakeholders and across your functional teams to resolve issues and recommend solutions to ensure that the system meets requirements with the performance needed for deployment.

 In this position the SEM will be operating in two capacities: 

 

1) ~ 20% management of the team’s functional groups (System Engineering, Integration & Test (SEIT), Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Design, and Configuration/Data Management.The management role includes all aspects of staff management, including recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training, coaching/mentoring, career development, performance management, compensation management, and separation of assigned employees.

 

2) ~ 80% direct charge for program tasking.Engineering development design or test tasking depending on the phase of each programProposal leadership, technical strategy and cost estimating. CContribution to research and development strategies and business growth opportunities.

 

Requirements:Department of Defense Secret security clearance must be obtainable within a reasonable amount of time from hire.

Bachelor’s degree in electrical, Software, Mechanical or Systems Engineering, plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience; or master's degree plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience to meet managerial expectations. Must have leadership experience, including day to day management of development and production programs; budget, cost and scheduling management; as well as people management.