Manager Programs 2 - Advanced Design and Producibility
$161,100–$241,700 year
On-siteRedondo Beach, California, United States
Job Summary
Manage diverse Survivability CRAD and IRAD development programs, overseeing cost, schedule, and technical performance while directing engineering staff. Define and integrate Survivability designs and systems for future vehicle platforms, establishing criteria for research, development, and integration. Serve as the primary interface with Engineering Organizations for staffing and performance, and coordinate with NGAS Divisions to capture requirements and manage technology investments. Develop and execute R&T roadmaps, prepare proposals and business plans, and negotiate contracts to ensure designs align with build, integration, test, and production-transition approaches. Lead cross-functional teams to influence design decisions that improve producibility, affordability, and execution risk.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline and 9 years of relevant experience
- Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline and 7 years of relevant experience
- PhD with 4 years of relevant experience
- Active U.S. government Secret clearance
- Experience leading technical teams, IPTs, cross-functional teams, or matrixed engineering/manufacturing organizations
- Experience supporting air vehicle or missile with survivability requirements through design, integration, manufacturing planning, production readiness, proposal development, or transition to execution
- Demonstrated experience influencing system, subsystem, or assembly design decisions to improve producibility, affordability, manufacturability, assembly efficiency, testability, production scalability, or execution risk
- Experience working across engineering, manufacturing engineering, supply chain, quality, test, operations, program management, and/or capture organizations
- Experience developing or evaluating manufacturing strategies, build plans, assembly approaches, tooling concepts, make/buy strategies, cost drivers, schedule assumptions, business cases, or production-readiness plans
- Experience supporting proposal development, capture strategy, basis-of-estimate development, price-to-win analysis, affordability analysis, production planning, investment planning, or early technical baseline definition
- Demonstrated ability to brief technical strategy, producibility risks, manufacturing trade studies, proposal assumptions, business cases, affordability trades, and execution recommendations to senior engineering, program, and capture leadership
- U.S. Citizenship
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Systems Engineering, Materials Engineering, Industrial Engineering
- Master's degree in engineering, materials engineering, systems engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, or business administration
- MBA or graduate-level business education with experience applying strategy, finance, marketing, business-case development, affordability analysis, ROI analysis, or competitive positioning to engineering and manufacturing decisions
- Experience with design-for-manufacturing, design-for-assembly, model-based definition, determinate assembly, advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, automation, tooling strategy, or high-rate production systems
- Experience with build-up test planning, ground test, flight test, system integration, hardware/software integration, production test planning, or manufacturing-readiness reviews
- Experience leading geographically distributed or matrixed teams across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, facilities, test, quality, program management, and capture
- Active U.S. government Top-Secret clearance or higher
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