Description

V2X is growing! V2X is looking for a T3S Engineering Section Manager to join our team!

V2X Aerospace Solutions is seeking an Engineering Section Manager who is passionate about leading a team of mixed discipline engineers who are committed to making our customer’s missions successful. The Transportation, Technology, and Tolling Solutions (T3S) Engineering team provides excellence in design, development, integration, test, and maintenance activities across a variety of systems. The team works in both waterfall and agile frameworks in the development of products across multiple domains and multiple technologies. The Engineering Section Manager is responsible for the performance and development of the engineers in the section. This includes defining and managing necessary skill competency models and gap closure plans.

Responsibilities and scope include:

• People Management

• Leadership and management of approximately 10 System and Software engineers located in the CONUS.

• Supporting career development of the individuals in the section through technical and leadership training, program rotations for exposure to a broad set of customers and technologies, and performance feedback to foster individual & career growth.

• Performing workforce planning to meet program and project requirements. Including the assignment of personnel to meet program needs and hiring/recruiting to support department and business growth objectives.

• Proactively communicating across the section with an established cadence to communicate clear priorities and organization updates. ​

• Holding crucial/difficult conversations including addressing performance issues to improve employee performance. ​

• Maintaining a strong succession plan for key positions across programs.​

• Program / Business Support

• Delivery of customer commitments for the systems engineering performance on programs within the department, and the coaching of team leaders within the department to achieve program goals.

• Partnering with Chief Engineers, Chief Technologist, and other Engineering Discipline Managers to deliver high quality proposals and meet business and customer commitments in our program results.

• Maintaining constant and regular engagement for all supported programs to ensure the team performance meets or exceeds the program plan.

• Working closely with program and business area managers to ensure customer satisfaction and business alignment. Interfacing with customers and users to build relationships and develop roadmaps of solutions to meet their needs.

• Engineering Organizational Support

• Supporting Engineering improvement initiatives to include innovation, technologies, and methodologies.

• Individual Skills

• • Maintaining a professional attitude, to serve as an example to the team, with team members, other functional organizations, internal and external customers.

• Communicating effectively to large groups and senior leaders

Required Skills: + + Minimum of 7 years' experience working in the industry or related work experience

• Experience working in multiple development frameworks

• Ability to manage, train and mentor engineers.

• Very strong organizational and team development skills

• Demonstrated knowledge of other related engineering disciplines (e.g. Software Engineering, Specialty Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Configuration Management, Quality, Cybersecurity)

• Experience briefing (both written and oral) effectively to all levels of the organization, from peers to senior management

• Working knowledge of Earned Value Management.

• Current in the technologies, methodologies, processes, and tools used in systems engineering.

• Experience with international project execution

Desired Skills:

• Experience bidding and oversight of Firm Fixed Price (FFP) programs.

• Experience in the application of Model Based Systems Engineering

• Experience working on international programs.

• Experience engineering pursuit/proposal leader

Education Requirements:

• B.S./B.A. in a relevant field or higher or an MBA