TDL Hardware Sr. Manager - Carlsbad Site Lead

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Job Description:

Job Title: TDL Sr. Hardware Manager - Carlsbad Site Lead

Job Code: 42018

Job Location: Carlsbad, California

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

Lead the electrical engineering function for complex, high-performance hardware systems supporting the Tactical Data Links product line, including architecture, design, development, modification, evaluation, integration, and production execution.

Create vision, strategy, and execution priorities for the team while coordinating personnel, technical resources, and cross-functional support required to perform on programs, proposals, pursuits, and sustaining efforts.

Provide hands-on leadership across digital, FPGA, DSP, CCA, power, antenna, RF, control systems, and sensor-processing applications while balancing technical performance, schedule, cost, reliability, and sustainability.

Essential Functions:

·      Architect, design, develop, modify, evaluate, and integrate electronic equipment, parts, components, and integrated circuitry for complex hardware systems.

·      Determine design approaches, staffing priorities, and technical parameters based on electrical requirements, feasibility, schedule, and cost constraints.

·      Coordinate hardware engineering support, personnel, tools, lab resources, and execution priorities required to perform on programs, proposals, pursuits, and production needs within the job area.

·      Direct engineering technical, schedule, and cost performance for hardware scope, including review of key technical decisions, deliverables, and execution risks.

·      Lead analysis, test, and evaluation activities to establish operating data, validate designs, and guide corrective action.

·      Select components and equipment based on specifications, reliability, operational characteristics, and long-term sustainability impacts.

·      Lead one or more teams or a department, including workforce planning, staffing, performance management, mentoring, and resource alignment.

·      Build a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement while influencing leaders, customers, and vendors on matters of substantial importance to the business area.