Associate Director, Engineering - Electronics and LLSW (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2024-01-30

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE , Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

Associate Director, Engineering - Electronics and LLSW (Onsite)

*This position is based onsite in Cedar Rapids, IA

Applies scientific principles to innovate, design, develop, and implement technologies, components, sub-systems, machines, tools, and systems to ensure compliance to specifications, requirements, and customer guarantees across applicable operating conditions. Ensures novel ideas and implementations are captured and protected using applicable IP processes and tools. 

Discipline:

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Discipline Description:

Researches, develops, designs, and tests embedded logic and SW. Designs FPGA/ASIC and Low Level Software solutions for electrical equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems for commercial, industrial, and domestic purposes. Produces products according to specifications, using the most cost effective and efficient means. Analyzes and evaluates new or improved electronic components. Includes circuit theory, computer design and development, instrumentation, radio communications, semiconductor devices, and solid state devices.

Job Level Description:

• Owns the execution of long-term strategy (e.g., more than 3 years) and operational direction, typically for an entire region, country, product or business of considerable size and scope. or, Owns the establishment and execution of short- to medium-term operational plans (e.g., less than 1 year to 1-2 years) for the organization.
• Problems faced are often complex and require extensive investigation and analysis.
• Requires ability to influence others to accept practices and approaches, and ability to communicate and influence executive leadership.

Purpose:

• Manages a department that includes multiple teams led by managers and/or supervisors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Liaises with stakeholders, oversees project management, analyzes system requirements, recommends improvement plans, monitors EH&S training implementation, and provides technical leadership and mentoring.

Responsibility Statements:

• Oversees teams with focus on policy and establishes leadership and managerial direction for electrical and electronic engineering activities to achieve and maintain organization’s objectives.
• Attends EH&S training and meetings, oversees and monitors EH&S training implementation status to build capabilities and achieve and maintain that EH&S requirements are understood and adhered to.
• Liaises and communicates with engineers, other departments, divisions, consultants, customers, vendors or others to discuss existing and potential engineering projects or products.
• Establishes policies and processes and oversees the mentoring and coordination of and provides technical leadership for the Electrical and Electronic Engineering function to increase its effectiveness and achieve and maintain business objectives.
• Establishes policies and processes and defines methods for identification of risk within business and recommends improvement plans to control risk.
• Oversees project management, capital planning and project execution to achieve and maintain that projects are completed on-time, within budget, and as per the set goals.
• Represents the organization at major and important conferences, meetings, boards, panels, committees, or working groups to present, explain, or defend findings or recommendations, negotiate compromises or agreements, or exchange information.
• Develops processes and methods for and analyzes system requirements, capacity, cost, and customer needs to determine feasibility of projects and develop system plans.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (typically in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)) and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations OR Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years exp