Engineering Management - Electrical Product Development

Job Details

• Job Title:
  
  Engineering Management – Electrical New Product Development & Sustainment
• Job Code: 30681
• Job Location:
  
  Rochester, NY
• Job Schedule:
  
  9/80:
  Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

The L3

Harris Communication Systems segment Tactical Communications sector is seeking a highly motivated, team-oriented Engineering Manager for New Product Development & legacy sustainment experienced with managing people and large multi-dimensional projects, to join an engineering organization that designs and delivers leading edge communications products. This role will report to an Engineering Director. The successful candidate will be responsible for electrical hardware management of one or more products in the multi-channel radio portfolio as well as the engineers who support them.

As a lead member of the multi-channel radio management team, the candidate will have hands on responsibility for leading the engineering team in many aspects of design, integration, testing, operations, and customer support. The candidate will be expected to lead technology initiatives that may go beyond their personal technical competency, utilizing Subject Matter Experts (Engineers and Scientists) from other specific disciplines as required.

The candidate will work collaboratively across the engineering organization to focus on project cost estimation, requirements management, technical baseline creation, review and approval, process artifact review and approval, and risk management/analysis in addition to overseeing project execution.

• People management responsibility for 7 or more electrical engineers and interns
• Electrical rough order of magnitude (ROM) and basis of estimate (BOE) creation
• Laison to the Chief Engineering (CE) for respective products
• Resource and planning management responsibility
• Financial reporting and responsibility for respective project budgets
• Support hardware project management for new designs and legacy sustainment
• Manage competing priorities amongst several projects
• Create and maintain project schedules
• Tracking and estimating project requirements and budgets
• Making design decisions and assessing technical risks based on schedule and budget constraints
• Support hardware research, design, and development of software defined radio systems
• Familiar with the principles and techniques of electrical engineering
• Decisions on component selection and equipment based on engineering analysis of specifications and reliability
• Coordinate project integration with other radio subsystems including Mechanical, Digital, RF, FPGA, DSP, embedded firmware, etc.
• Coordinate subsystem and system level verification and validation testing
• Support operations with the goal of improved product cost and yield
• Support the introduction of new products into operations
• Completion of assignments and delivery of results with general supervision/support
• Proven and effective communications skills, interpersonal skills and customer focus
• Participate in product and process cost reduction and product improvement efforts.
• 10% or less travel may be required
• Ability to obtain a US security clearance

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• 2 years of experience in Engineering Project Management, Project Engineering, management of engineering teams.
• Experience with new product development in an engineering capacity (electronics, mechanical, software)

• Experience with Microsoft Project or another project management tool
• Familiarity with complex schedules and Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Experience with Configuration Management software (Agile preferred)
• Experience in DFM analysis and implementation for volume manufacturing
• Experience with DOORS or equivalent requirements management tools
• Familiarity with the INCOSE V product development model
• Familiarity with common test equipment such as Spectrum Analyzers, Logic Analyzers, and Signal Analyzers

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