Associate Director, Systems Engineering (Hybrid)

Date Posted:

2024-11-25

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HOR32: Wilsonville, OR 27300 SW Parkway , Wilsonville, OR, 97070-9215 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

Collins Aerospace Vision and Sensor Systems, HUD Systems department is seeking a talented Associate Director, Systems Engineering to lead and execute HUD Systems product design and department support activities as a subject matter expert and individual contributor.  You will support existing certified HUD systems in both the commercial and military domain, as well actively working several major upgrade activities while preparing for the next generation HUD system development opportunity.  You will communicate and coordinate within the Collins Aerospace global engineering organization in addition to supporting our program (value stream) organization.  In addition, you will be required to closely collaborate with our Operations, Quality and Supply Chain teams to ensure products can be efficiently produced in our factories. 

The Systems Engineer will be responsible for the system development and certification process for the HUD Systems business.  You will be accountable for team execution to Collins processes and passing of reviews.  This is an individual contributor leadership role where you will shape the future of system integration practices and HUD systems design, ensuring that our solutions not only meet but exceed customer expectations in both the present and future environments. By leveraging current best practices, you’ll refine people, processes, and tools to optimize performance, streamline development cycles, and guarantee high-quality, reliable products for our diverse customer base.

What You Will Do

• Advance our design capabilities (tools, processes and people) to seek leaner and more efficiency to position us for future growth

• Provide technical direction and guidance for the design engineering team working in coordination with cross-discipline peers and program customers

• Offer specialized technical expertise, as required, for difficult issues

• Ensure maximum reusability and scalability of products across platforms by aligning processes and product strategies.

• Contribute to reviewing and negotiating customer requirements for responsible products

• Drive process and tools across teams through continuous improvement initiatives and engagements with a focus on reducing costs and engineering cycle time while maintaining high standards of quality. 

• Ensure full implementation of an effective engineering lessons learned, read-across, root cause and corrective/preventative action processes.

• Identify, develop, and validate new standardized design methods, tools and documentation approaches ensuring full utilization across the design engineering group, particularly focused on  automated solutions.

• Drive robust implementation of RLPM, APQP, and Design for X (Cost, Manufacturing, Maintainability, etc.) initiatives throughout the developments.

• Evaluate and define future design-related PLM strategies and support of implementation.

• Communicate and present technical data to internal and external senior level leadership

• Travel up to 15% domestically and internationally when circumstances require it

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 16 years of relevant experience

• U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or granted refugee or asylee status) as defined here:
  https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62

• Experience in structural design and/or aerostructure components

• Experience leading or managing a team of professionals

• Experience and/or knowledge of avionics systems and conceptual design

• Experience with hardware and/or supporting operations environments

• Direct customer interaction and collaboration experience

• Strong background in systems engineering development

• Experience with ARP4754, DO-178, DO-254, and DO-160

• MS Office experience: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office 365

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