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Job Description

Ready to make a difference? Our employees design, integrate, and test the world s next generation communication and electronic warfare systems for the United States DoD and international customers. You will be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry s most difficult problems. Drawing strength from our differences, we re innovating for the future. We put our customers first exemplified by our mission: We Protect Those Who Protect Us. Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with us.

BAE Systems is looking for an experienced Program Engineer Manager (Chief Engineer) to lead the Project 1 program, a multi-disciplinary team in an Agile, fast-paced development environment for the Resilient Ground Systems Product Line under Mission Systems. Project 1 develops an application hosting data framework based on Enforma.

Responsibilities of this role include:

+ Partner with the Program Manager to ensure smooth program execution, strong team building, defending work share and growing scope.

+ Execute a full scale program through excellent risk evaluation, outstanding leadership, and strong decision making with solid analysis skills.

+ Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams in the architecture, design, development, fielding, and support of an Enforma based system.

+ Represent the technical team to project managers, PTLs, functions and executive leadership.

+ Develop the overall technical solution for a product or system.

+ Act as the decision authority between the System Architect and entire engineering team and be responsible for developing the overall technical solution for the system.

+ Expected to influence design, development, test and verification.

+ Be responsible for identifying and communicating technical risks and opportunities between the design team, system architect and program management team.

+ Ensure design to Cost is part of the overall solution.

+ Perform as the technical POC to the customer in support of the PM and PTL and perform as the Voice of the Customer for system design, technical performance and other system needs, and provide technical stewardship of the engineering effort for the entire program ensuring the solution meets customer programmatic and technical requirements within the allocated engineering cost and schedule.

Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed fulltime on site. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We take pride in important work-life balance initiatives including every other Friday Off, Flextime, and Telecommuting. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

+ Bachelor of Science degree in engineering/technical discipline, and 12 year(s) related experience or equivalent experience, training and/or certifications

+ Demonstrated leadership skills (soft skills, strategic thinking, business acumen, supervisory experience, building teams, building customer relationships)

+ Experience leading IPTs, projects, and/or programs consisting of Ground-related SE, SW development, and IV&V functions and managing programs with competing/conflicting resource requirements

+ Proven execution of a full scale program through excellent risk assement, outstanding leadership, and strong decision making through analysis

+ Strong planning and organizational skills with the ability to diagnose, resolve complex problems and to develop improved methods to increase program efficiency

+ Experience with customer/stakeholder communication, management, relationship building, and customer satisfaction

+ Proven ability to garner the trust of Customers, influence government decisions and is able to adapt a positive leadership style when the working environment becomes contentious

+ Proven business intelligence skills

+ Proficient analyzing customer needs, and reviewing user stories and technical tasks to achieve various Agile objectives and iterative development schedules

+ Deep analytical and problem solving abilities. Reviews and judges the suitability of capability solutions and the planned approach

+ Working knowledge of EVMS systems and project management tools in the context of AGILE process

+ Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate with all. Advises stakeholders on issues affecting the broader engineering approach to engineering activities.

+ Proven written and oral communication skills, including presentation skills

+ Strong proposal writing and review skills

+ Ability to obtain a TS SCI clearance

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

+ Masters of Science degree in Systems Engineering or related discipline

+ Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance

+ Proficiency with Agile management tools (e.g., Jira, etc.)

+ Experience developing proposals, ECPs, and whitepapers focused on new business

+ Experience with strategy development and execution

+ Knowledge of open, standards-based architectures, interfaces

+ Experience in Program Pre Mortem analysis

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $146670 - $249330

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

Program Engineering Manager II - Chief Engineer

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