Chief Engineer; CE Tracked Vehicle Development and Sustainment

About the Role:

The Chief Engineer (CE) for the Tracked Vehicle Development and Sustainment portfolio is responsible for ensuring overall technical design integrity, compliance, and robustness of a balanced system design. The Chief Engineer is accountable to program and engineering leadership and Principal Chief engineer. The Chief Engineer will also support the Systems Engineering Manager and Project Engineers. The CE role oversees related performance activities and drives key engineering decisions to meet project schedule and cost goals.

General Dynamics is a successful Fortune 100, global aerospace and defense company, with over 90,000 employees world-wide. General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has a strong foundation of delivering core engineering and manufacturing capabilities to our clients for military vehicles. Our team is focused on continuous process and productivity improvements that reduce product costs, while increasing troop safety and effectiveness.

Land Systems continues to work with the US Armed Forces and its Allies to ensure these vehicles remain survivable, relevant, flexible, affordable and capable of addressing a dynamic threat environment.

Starting your career or you are an experience professional, we offer a Total Rewards package that is Impactful and built for you.

• Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, HSA and Flex Spending
• Competitive base pay and incentive pay that rewards individual and team performance, and comprehensive benefits.
• 401k Match (6%)
• Educational Assistance
• 9-80 Work Schedule (This position's standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off)
• On-going learning opportunities within a diverse, inclusive and rewarding work environment
• Onsite cafeteria, remodeled fitness center, and outdoor fitness track

• Subsystem/domain technical authority; ensures product is developed in accordance with GDLS and customer engineering standards to achieve program requirements
• Responsible to provide direction and guidance to applicable stakeholders to deliver technical products and deliverables to support project milestones
• Ensure subsystem team products meet technical, cost, quality, and performance requirements
• Manage Tracked Integrated Product Teams to deliver on technical scope within project constraints, and ensures customer expectations are met
• Responsible for review and approval of related products / CDRLs / Milestone review content
• Lead Tracked Integrated Product Team designs and test activities and makes trade/technical decisions in coordination with Principal Chief Engineer
• Responsible for related subcontractor performance and coordination for engineering tasks
• Lead engineer for GDLS Leadership and Customers on IPT scope execution
• Coordinate with functional departments on related technical resource needs
• Support negotiations of technical requirements, scope and deliverables
• Identify potential risks and mitigation strategies
• Manages product development architecture/design (system, physical, data, communications, structure, survivability, thermal, etc.). Approval of system architectures and any changes, conditions, inputs and final resolution for requirements, trades, and alternatives
• Responsible for evaluating whole system trades, Key Performance Parameter (KPP) and Technical Performance Measurement (TP