Senior Principal Electrical Engineer – EE Discipline Chief (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2024-08-19

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HTX05: Collins - Houston Spaceport 2555 Atlantis Shuttle Street , Houston, TX, 77059 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.

Senior Principal Electrical Engineer – EE Discipline Chief (Onsite)

Collins Aerospace Systems is a leading supplier of technologically advanced aerospace and defense products. Our Space Systems business unit within Collins Aerospace provides life support and thermal management systems including comprehensive integrated Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) solutions for NASA, government, and commercial customers. Our solutions enable International Space Station (ISS) missions, satellite and orbital destination platforms, and human mobility missions including current and next generation space suit programs. Our products and integrated mission systems offerings enable Low Earth Orbit (LEO), lunar, exploratory, and deep space platforms across a wide range of programs including NASA’s Artemis Program which will establish a sustainable presence on the Moon to prepare for missions to Mars.

 

The Electrical Discipline Chief Engineer will guide the engineering teams to ensure the best-in-class design & development of technologies, components, and sub-systems; using better tools and processes to ensure compliance to specifications, requirements, and customer needs across applicable operating conditions.

 

As a Discipline Chief Engineer and member of the Discipline Chief Engineering team, the Electrical Discipline Chief Engineer will be responsible for guidance and mentoring at all levels of the electrical engineering process including concept, design and development, fabrication, modeling, test, installation, operation, and maintenance. The Electrical Discipline Chief guides the electrical architecture studies, detailed electrical design process, integration, verification and validation, risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for electrical design in Space Systems.

 

On Site Locations: Houston, TX, Rockford, IL, or Windsor Locks, CT

Primary Responsibilities:

• SME for assigned discipline
• Develop and implement Electrical Engineering best practices, processes and procedures within the Standard Work framework.
• Implement and support Standard Work processes across all applicable development programs to deliver consistent results.
• Work collaboratively with other Engineering disciplines, Programs, Operations, Quality and Customers to achieve optimal design solutions.
• Chairs Design Reviews
• Influences requirements management and validation with other teams and disciplines.
• Ensures the correct decomposition of customer specifications and Electrical requirements into Circuit Design requirements, and generation of verification criteria and plans for the requirements.
• Ensure compliance to specifications, requirements, and customer guarantees.
• Supports/assists with RCCA activities and corrective action boards within the discipline.
• Leads the development of and/or maintaining standard tools or templates for the discipline.
• Shares lessons learned across the discipline, programs, and products while transitioning the lessons learned into applicable process improvements for the discipline.
• Work closely with Value Stream Leads and Program Chiefs to ensure customer satisfaction through careful planning, staffing, and execution of projects.
• Conducts discipline health reviews.
• Participate in the proposal process to develop and review cost estimates, schedules and proposals pac