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The Manager Engineering– EO Payloads and Lasers provides engineering leadership to the Elbit Systems of America (ESA EO Payloads and Lasers Engineering Team. This team is comprised of Project Engineering Managers (PEMs) and Lead Systems Engineers fulfilling roles as Systems Architects (SA), Systems Engineering Integration and Test Integrated Product Team (SEIT IPT) Lead, and Integration, Verification and Test (IV&T) Leads. The team is responsible for the full lifecycle of product support from capture to sustaining, with a significant focus on development execution with an early focus on Design to Unit Production Cost (DTUPC) and New Product Introduction (NPI). In this role the Senior Manager will teach, guide, and lead 3-5 direct reports plus a matrixed team of ~30. In addition, this resource will provide technical guidance and support to engineering functional groups, and Business Development (BD) teams in support of current, new and follow-on business opportunities. The Senior Engineering Manager will foster and participate in collaborative relationships with Elbit Systems Limited (ESL - Israel) Engineering and Business Units (BUs) to understand their capabilities and technologies. The Senior Manager provides objective views of potential solutions and offerings to ESA Business Development and the Business Units.

Responsibilities

• Models Elbit Systems of America’s core values, providing mentorship and technical leadership to the Engineering team.
• Performs workforce planning and resource allocation in coordination with Engineering Functional Leadership, Business Unit Leads, Program Management, Finance and Human Resources.
• Provides technical leadership to the Business Units with respect to strategy, capture, development, and sustaining needs.
• Provides the Business Development team with customer support in technical exchanges.
• Leads the team to generate concepts and white papers in support of the Product Line Directors and Business Development team as required for new products and systems required to grow the technology space
• Oversees the generation of technical documentation as required for responses to Requests for Information (RFI) and Requests for Proposal (RFP).
• Provides technical guidance to Program Managers in support of development projects.
• Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with other ESL and ESA Business Units.
• Leads the ESA technology experts within the EO Payloads and Lasers Electro-Optics and Targeting domain, with team being expected to help resolve programs technical or execution issues.
• Remains at the forefront of emerging technologies which could help improve engineering capabilities and product offerings.
• Fully understands internal project engineering and systems engineering procedures and mentors engineering teams with a keen focus on DTUPC and NPI.
• Participates in Business Unit strategic planning activities.
• Generates Technology Roadmaps that supports the development of associated product lines.
• Participates in Product Line strategy formation and program capture.
• May be assigned as the Technical Lead for complex, highly technical projects across the enterprise.
• Evaluates vendor capabilities to provide highly complex products or services to ESA assuring the highest quality and being within specifications stated.
• Ensures lessons learned are identified and incorporated into the standards process.
• Support transition of technologies, sub-systems and products to ESA

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or other relevant discipline and 9 years of experience, or advanced degree in Engineering and 6 years of experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead team of teams to drive engineering excellence and execution
• Ability to provide leadership to 3-5 direct Staff Level or above Engineering Leaders
• Ability to team with BD and BU constituents to develop strategy and collaborate on Capture, Development, Transition to Production, and Sustaining
• Minimum of 10 years of experience as the Technical Lead for complex and high-revenue projects.
• Establish and nurture strong relationships with Elbit Systems Limited in Israel.
• Ability to team with vendors on the highest complex technical specifications.
• Either has or the ability to qualify for a Secret Security Clearance

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.