Electrical Engineering Manager - 2022-55283
Company: General Dynamics Mission Systems
Location: Pittsfield
Posted on: July 31, 2022
Job Description:
General Dynamics Mission Systems has an immediate opening for an
Electrical Engineering Manager. This position provides an
opportunity to further advance the cutting-edge technology that
supports some of our nation's core defense/intelligence services
and systems. General Dynamics Mission Systems employees work
closely with esteemed customers to develop solutions that allow
them to carry out high-stakes national security missions. 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
- May have budget responsibilities
- 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:
- Previous experience with Strategic (or other High Consequence)
Systems
- Strong leadership skills
- 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
Keywords: General Dynamics Mission Systems, Pittsfield , Electrical Engineering Manager - 2022-55283, Executive , Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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