Chief Engineer

Company: RTX
Location: Rosemead
Posted on: November 20, 2020

Job Description:

Job Description Are you amazed by the satellite views of cool places on Earth? We invite you to consider joining us in developing the next generation of space-based systems. The Raytheon Technologies Space Systems Engineering organization within the Systems Engineering Center (SEC) is currently seeking a Chief Engineer (CE) for a EO/IR payload. We are looking for a Chief Engineer who brings space systems leadership, engineering, capture, and proposal experience to a growth-oriented organization. Prior experience in Electro-Optical and Infrared (EOIR) payload design, development, testing, and operations is expected. In this position, the candidate will be responsible for the technical execution of the program and for creating a cost-effective system solution. This technical leadership position requires a top performer with strong space systems domain knowledge and ability to bring together and lead a multi-disciplined, cross-functional team in the execution of program goals. This role will require regular engagement with customer counterparts as well as with internal Raytheon teams, and active participation in customer and program technical reviews. The Chief Engineer serves as the primary technical interface to the customer to determine the technical solution to their requirements. The candidate also plans, organizes, and administers technical reviews, coordinates engineering designs and builds, monitors the day-to-day operations, provides suggestions for all major technical decisions and designs, and represents engineering on the management team. The candidate will be responsible for meeting all technical requirements on the program acting as the product owner. Responsibilities of the Chief Engineer include: * Develop and lead the technical vision, strategy, and execution of the program * Provide technical leadership and coordination, ensuring performance within cost and schedule. * Lead program readiness and design reviews, lead customer TIMs, and keep management up to date on status * Guide and direct other engineering team leads to achieve program and technical success. * Provide engineering authority to all decisions impacting product integrity, system performance, and system functionality. * Review all engineering inputs to gates and independent reviews. Lead all gates and independent reviews * Establishes and maintains the program technical baseline, ensuring the product meets contractual needs, and establishes technical baseline artifacts * Provide technical leadership in developing and maintaining the analysis to predict overall system performance * Provide technical leadership in architecture definition and trades, requirements analysis, CONOPs, algorithms, interface definition, hardware and software design, procurement, integration, validation and verification * Coordinate, write, and deliver technical presentations to both internal and external customers * Act as the bridge between program management and technical staff * Lead configuration control board, engineering review board, and risk review board * Identify engineering resource gaps * Monitor performance through technical performance measures * Mentor more junior engineers Required Skills: * Minimum 10 years of industry experience, with a minimum of 5 years in space-based EO/IR systems * Experience providing technical leadership throughout the entire space product life cycle * Experience in development (design, fabrication, integration & test) of high reliability space hardware * Experience identifying engineering resources needed to get required engineering work product requirements done (people, processes, facilities & tools) * Experience with identifying critical staffing resources to ensure staffing plans to address technical development areas * Experience with developing and presenting technical briefings to the customer and company management * Experience effectively leading teams of technical experts to resolve challenging technical problems, including multi-disciplined team * Experience establishing and maintaining working relationship with all levels of the organization, including customers, users, and other peer groups * Leadership skills to develop proposals for Government customers * Experience of problem solving and time management skills * Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation), with prior experience in dealing with customers, management, technical staff, and internal / external organizations * U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position requires an active U.S. Security Clearance as of Day 1 of Employment * Active TS clearance Desired Skills: * Experience as Chief Engineer on a space program or another role providing technical leadership to a large engineering team * Experience leading critical design reviews, test readiness reviews, and test review boards * Experience with creating and maintaining a technical baseline * Experience in Model Based System Engineering tools for developing architectures and f

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