Lead System Engineer
Marion, MA

Job Description

Job Description

The Submersibles & Sensors market segment has a current need for a highly skilled Staff level Systems Engineering Lead to join our rapidly growing team in Marion, MA. This role would support an existing program for an international naval communications system. The candidate needs to be a very strong technical leader and have significant experience with executing and managing the systems engineering lifecycle including requirements analysis, development and derivation, design oversight to ensure compliance to requirements, integration and qualification testing (IV&V), followed by introduction of final products into production and production support.

It is essential that the candidate have demonstrated experience as a Control Account Management (Earned Value) for defense contracts managing technical scope, schedule, and budgets. These responsibilities include schedule planning and execution, measurement of accomplishment, actual cost collection, variance analysis and resultant corrective action, and estimating costs at completion.

The successful candidate will be proficient in communicating upward to program leads and senior managers, but also downward, to the individual contributors on the team being led. The candidate must be highly engaged with program leaders, the engineering teams/IPTs, customers, and other services impacting development and test such as drafting, sourcing, safety, manufacturing, etc. Additionally, the person must have great foresight concerning future tasks, so as to keep the team focused and functioning in the most effective manner.

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Basic Qualifications

* Prior System Engineering experience on DoD and/or international type programs leading multidisciplinary teams
* Experience writing/developing/deriving functional/non-functional and performance requirement baselines for a system.
* Prior experience leading, executing, and overseeing the technical scope of System Engineering life-cycle and tracking progress via TPMs and other metrics
* Prior experience with Specialty Engineering related to IA/Security, ILS, RMA, Safety, etc.
* Prior experience as a Cost Account Managing (CAM) using Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques to establish and track schedules and budgets
* Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills to effectively interact with and present technical scope to senior leadership and customers
* Must have superb written skills and prior experience developing technical artifacts for DoD type programs
* Prior experience developing materials for and presenting at System Engineering Technical Reviews (SRR/SFR/SSR/PDR/CDR/TRR)
* Occasional Travel to customer facilities is required
* Candidate must be capable of obtaining a Secret clearance.