Senior Engineering Manager ( Canonsburg, PA )

Direct Hire Opportunity

Salary Plus Benefits

This role is on-site in Canonsburg, PA Relocation avialble

As the Senior Engineering Manager (SEM), you will be responsible for setting the standard and upholding the high degree of competency required within the engineering group to support critical weapon system engineering processes from early concept development and requirements analysis / definition / management through detailed design / integration / qualification while ensuring adequate technical support for production activities during the sustainment phase. The successful SEM candidate will provide expert leadership and guidance at all levels of the engineering organization and demonstrate the ability to contribute in a meaningful technical capacity to engineering tasking while managing the organizational needs of and ensuring performance excellence of a mid-sized engineering department.

As the SEM, you will work with the Program Manager, Chief Engineer, and program engineering leads to make critical decisions on architecture, design, and technology choices and be the technical beacon for the organization, working with cross functional teams to ensure that customer requirements are correctly analyzed, system requirements are developed and allocated to lower levels (subsystem, elements, and components), and plans for verification and validation are fully defined and executed. You will collaborate with external stakeholders and across your functional teams to resolve issues and recommend solutions to ensure that the system meets requirements with the performance needed for deployment.

In this position the SEM will be operating in two capacities:

1) ~ 20% management of the team’s functional groups (System Engineering, Integration & Test (SEIT), Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Design, and Configuration/Data Management.

The management role includes all aspects of staff management, including recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training, coaching/mentoring, career development, performance management, compensation management, and separation of assigned employees.

2) ~ 80% direct charge for program tasking.

Engineering development design or test tasking depending on the phase of each program

Proposal leadership, technical strategy and cost estimating. C

Contribution to research and development strategies and business growth opportunities.

Requirements

Key Qualifications:

• Educational Background: A bachelor's degree in Electrical, Software, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering is required, with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience; alternatively, a master's degree with at least 8 years of relevant experience is acceptable.
• Leadership Experience: Proven experience in managing development and production programs, including day-to-day operations, budgeting, cost control, scheduling, and personnel management.
• Security Clearance: Eligibility to obtain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance within a reasonable timeframe from the date of hire.

Preferred Experience:

• Defense Industry Expertise: Hands-on engineering experience with complex Department of Defense (DoD) or related embedded electronics programs within the past four years.
• System Development: Demonstrated success in developing integrated hardware and software systems requiring real-time performance and high reliability in extreme environments.
• Team Building: Experience in building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Lifecycle Knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of engineering processes across the product lifecycle.
• Communication Skills: Strong presentation and negotiation abilities, with a track record of achieving consensus among stakeholders.
• Remote Team Management: Capability to lead and manage geographically dispersed teams.