Thermal Engineering Manager 2
$153,800–$230,800 year
On-siteBaltimore, Maryland, United States
Job Summary
Lead a thermal design and analysis group as a Functional Manager for thermal, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer analysts within the Mission Systems Sector. Oversee thermal design of sensor systems across airborne, space, maritime, and land-based environments while ensuring program cost, schedule, and customer design requirements are met. Manage staffing plans, performance evaluations, goal planning, and hiring to address analysis demand and skill attrition. Conduct internal and customer technical reviews, approve analysis and test reports, and lead thermal trade studies. Drive process improvement, roadmap development, and innovation while maintaining work/life balance for staff.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of experience
- Master's degree with 6 years of experience
- Ph.D. with 4 years of experience in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or related technical fields
- an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
- U.S. Citizenship
- The ability to obtain/maintain a US Government Secret clearance
- A current/active clearance is not required to be considered for the position, but a final clearance is required to start
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in electronics cooling, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer
- Minimum of 6 years of experience performing design-by-analysis using finite volume or finite difference software packages for thermal or fluid applications
- Experience serving as a program Thermal Lead on one or more development programs
Desired Qualifications
- Active US Government Secret clearance
- Expertise with Electronics Thermal Management and Heat Transfer principles
- Strong leadership qualities, including excellent verbal and written communication, cross organization collaboration, team engagement, and organizational skills
- Demonstrated success leading high performing teams (integrated product team lead, agile, or functional management)
- Advanced Degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering with concentration in Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics
- Minimum of 2 years of experience with one or more of the following software packages: ANSYS Icepak, ANSYS Thermal Desktop, ANSYS Fluent
- Experience leading process improvement, or introduction of new tools projects
- Experience leading IRAD projects, proposals or Thermal TRL advancements
- Experience leading a thermal laboratory within budget constraints
- Prior experience leading the thermal design of systems, CCAs and microelectronics level thermal designs
- Demonstrated application of advanced convective thermal management and design of single phase and two-phase thermal design for high heat flux/high power density applications using analytical, high fidelity, or experimental methods
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