Associate Director Program Area Chief Engineer (onsite)

Date Posted:

2024-05-10

Country:

United States of America

Location:

TX190: 2501 West University, McKinney 2501 West University , McKinney, TX, 75070 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Do you have a passion in Autonomous Systems? Do you enjoy working in fast paced, innovative, and groundbreaking technology environments? Do you want to be part of a team that can rapidly design, develop, and field open, trusted, secure, certified, and operationally effective collaborative autonomous solutions? The Autonomy and C2BM group is a newly formed Collins Aerospace business with a vision to be defense industry leaders in command and control, battle management and developers and integrators of collaborative autonomy to extend the reach, survivability, and lethality of the humans across the all-domain, JADC2-enabled battlespace.  The Autonomy and Command & Control Battle Management (C2BM) is seeking a talented Associate Director of Engineering/Program Area Chief Engineer to lead a group of Program Chief Engineers that will be leading large and complex new development programs.

The Program Area Chief Engineer (PACE) is the engineering focal point for the Autonomy and Command & Control Battle Management (C2BM) Program Area with a focus on Software development and advanced data solutions tied to command and control, across and within multiple warfighting domains. The team serves world-wide supporting multiple missions including Battle Management, Command and Control, and Autonomous platforms.  This person will be responsible for leading our teams in the development of systems that provide command and control, mission management, orchestration, collection, and processing.  They and their team will be responsible for execution of existing programs, in addition to working/supporting new business opportunities. The PACE manages all the Program Chief Engineers within the group working with other cross functional leaders to execute and grow the business over the next 5 years. It is a high visibility position to the Autonomy and Command & Control Battle Management (C2BM) Leadership Team.

The preferred location for this position is either Ft Wayne, IN; McKinney, TX; Cedar Rapids, IA; Sterling/Dulles, VA

Primary Responsibilities:

• Proven leadership on development programs as a Lead (e.g. Chief Engineer, Program/Project Engineer, or Integrated Product Team Lead).

• Accountable for achieving Program Area engineering cost, schedule, and technical commitments. 

• Ensure that Program Chief Engineers (PCE) and Engineering personnel are following approved processes & procedures.

• If failures occur, ensure root cause evaluation and corrective action implementation is thorough, addresses systemic issues (if any), and is in accordance with company policy.

• Review engineering execution risk mitigations and opportunity capture plans, ensuring they are appropriate to the work being performed and current state of the programs.

• Accountable for review of, and approval authority for, Program EACs, Gates and Engineering Bid Reviews (including ensuring Design-To-Cost and schedule targets are met; bid packages are thoroughly vetted; within scope, risks & opportunities identified and manageable), per the approved Delegation of Authority (DOA), or as otherwise directed.

• Hire, manage, mentor, and support Program Chief Engineers, assigning them to programs based on program need and PCE capability/experience.  Assist PCEs to ensure programs are staffed with proper engineering personnel/skillsets to successfully execute programs within cost and schedule requirements. Develop and maintain succession plan and a robust mentoring of PCEs.

• Support Program Area financial planning and forecasting.  Assist Program Chief Engineers (PCEs) and Engineering Disciplines (metrics and staffing plans for Engineering) to achieve sales forecast.

• Support technology roadmap development and maintenance, drive product & technology development, and prioritize company investment, in alignment with the Program Area strategy.

• Support front end of the business activities, to include working with customers to understand their needs, helping to shape future work and win strategies, and developing strong positive relationships with the customer community to make Raytheon Technologies the preferred supplier.

• Model values and behaviors expected to create a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment.

• Broad experience working front end of the business activities, leading engineering development efforts, and managing progressively larger and more complex engineering efforts.

• This position requires an individual that can perform with minimal direct supervisory support. As such the candidate must be highly motivated