Full Time
Canonsburg, PA
Posted 4 weeks ago

Compensation: $195,000 – $205,000 Per Year + Full Benefits + relocation expenses

Location: Canonsburg, PA
Job Type: Direct hire – On Site

Job Description:
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:
US Citizen
Department of Defense Secret security clearance must be obtainable within a reasonable amount of
time from hire.
Bachelor’s degree in electrical, Software, Mechanical or Systems Engineering, plus a minimum of 10
years of relevant experience; or master’s degree plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience to
meet managerial expectations. Must have leadership experience, including day to day management of
development and production programs; budget, cost and scheduling management; as well as people
management.

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