Mgr – Eng II
Mgr - Eng II - Supportability Engineering
The desired location for this position is Sterling Heights, MI. The Supportability Engineering SM is responsible for the management of the LA Supportability Engineering section of the Logistics Engineering function, and the associated people, processes and infrastructure. The Supportability Engineering SM manages the Logistics Engineering, Diagnostics/Health Management/ Testability, Maintainability, TMDE/troubleshooting development, and Packaging Engineering technical domains. The Supportability Engineering SM works as part of the Logistics Engineering functional management team with particular emphasis on ensuring that design considerations related to Design for Supportability are institutionalized in the LA Engineering process set and applied to programs, and supporting establishment of life-cycle cost modeling as an Engineering capability. The Supportability Engineering SM identifies core capabilities, and pursues strategies to increase competitiveness in non-core capabilities. The Supportability Engineering SM is additionally accountable for the following: Responsible for allocating Engineers to/from programs/projects to fulfill staffing needs in a timely manner Responsible for performing comprehensive planning relative to functional capacity capability Responsible for establishing maintaining the technical vitality of people, processes, infrastructure for the functional discipline/domain o People - Responsible for ensuring the technical competence of the assigned Engineering staff, reflecting both current anticipated needs - Responsible for maintaining an affordable competitive skill mix for the functional discipline/domain, inclusive of the judicious use of contract labor - Responsible for maintaining core/context assessments for the functional discipline/domain the prudent application of core/contest assessment results to balancing the in-house content of the functional discipline/domain - Responsible for ensuring that subordinates rigorously apply applicable policies, processes, practices, procedures, methods, standards, guidelines in the performance of their duties - Responsible for administration of PDAs for the assigned staff, inclusive of soliciting inputs from stakeholders, e.g. PEMs IPT leads - Responsible for collaborative career development with subordinates o Processes - Responsible for ensuring the effectiveness relevance of functional processes - Responsible for ensuring functional processes are useful to Engineering practitioners - Responsible for ensuring functional process are integrated standardized, to the extent practical, across LA engineering - Responsible for ensuring functional processes meet applicable compliance assessment standards, e.g. CMMI - Responsible for constructing maintaining functional Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs) to aid in the efficient construction of accurate, repeatable, defendable functional bids estimates o Infrastructure - Responsible for ensuring the availability, efficiency, relevance of functional engineering design/analysis tools services - Responsibility for ensuring the affordability of functional engineering design/analysis tools services, inclusive of ensuring that disused obsolete licenses capabilities are sunset/scrapped in the interest of cost savings - Responsible for ensuring a practical level of functional engineering design/analysis tool services commonality across LA Engineering to improve ability to effectively allocate work across sites - Responsible for the timely identification of capital other investment requirements to sustain functional infrastructure, along with ensuring efficient utilization of such Responsible for ensuring the completeness adequacy of functional bids estimates Responsible for effectively managing allocated indirect budgets Other duties as required include, but not limited to: providing technical expertise to programs/projects, participating in peer reviews, performing independent design phase reviews, performing ??color team ? reviews for pursuits, supporting bids and proposals, supporting IRAD planning. Such duties are likely to span individual functional disciplines/domains. --BS in Engineering/Science plus 15 years of relevant experience --Mastery of at least one of the supportability engineering functional domains, inclusive of theory, contemporary state of the practice, processes, and tools 10 or more years of hands-on design/development program experience 5 or more years of engineering supervisory experience --Practical knowledge and experience with bidding engineering scope for proposals --Practical knowledge and experience with applicable engineering processes Preferred Skills: --Contemporary design/development program experience --Expertise in multiple technical disciplines within the supportability engineering functional domain --Contemporary design review experience --Contemporary pursuit and/or proposal experience --Working knowledge of EVMS and Cost Account Manager duties --Working knowledge of CMMI MS in Engineering/Science plus 15 or more years of relevant experience BAE Systems is a premier global defense and security company with approximately 100,000 employees delivering a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support and services. With headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, this Land Armaments Operating Group of BAE Systems employs nearly 11,000 professionals at more than 30 locations worldwide. Land and Armaments is a global leader in the design, development, production, and service support of armored combat vehicles, major and minor caliber naval guns and missile launchers, canisters, artillery systems, and intelligent munitions. People are the greatest asset in any Company ... BAE Systems is committed to a high performance culture and provides an environment that challenges our employees to be remarkable and obtain their full potential. We are an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer that understands the value of diversity and its impact on a high performance culture. Join us ...