The Sector Engineering organization (formerly Strategy & Engineering Excellence [S&EE]) enables continuously improving engineering execution and deploys strategy in close partnership with division-aligned engineering teams. We are a trusted partner in Engineering Discipline Execution, Technology Leadership, Engineering Strategy, Technical Talent, and Advanced Analytics. We create and deliver on initiatives that need a broad sector approach and scale outcomes achieved within a division to the sector. We define and enable commonality in tools and processes. We merge insights across engineering and other functional areas, unify the broad engineering team, and act on near-, mid-, and long-term plans to achieve our strategy.
The Director of Engineering Discipline Execution is responsible for seeking and defining commonality in engineering disciplines across the sector’s sites, while enabling site specific approaches necessary for their technology areas. This critical role requires extensive collaboration across engineering disciplines of Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Hardware or Design Engineering, Integration and Test Engineering, and more. The team is responsible to define common tools, standards, processes, techniques, and oversight methods across sites. The Director will understand positive and negative trends and create action plans for both. In conjunction with the Engineering Strategy team, the Engineering Discipline Execution team will collaborate on a future vision and employ near-, mid-, and long-term actions to achieve organizational objectives. The team will consist of subject matter experts in each discipline, both organizationally aligned and matrixed support. This team will be responsible also to source the necessary talent for successful audits, independent review teams, root cause and corrective actions, and others. The team will also partner extensively with cross-functional organizations to target improvements that benefit overall business outcomes, e,g., Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality and Mission Assurance, Business Management, Program Management.
The Director of Engineering Discipline Execution will lead a geographically distributed team of approximately 20 or more engineering professionals in the accomplishment of the role. The Director also leads and/or facilitates the deployment of long-term corporate, cross-sector, and intra-sector engineering transformation efforts, with focus on continuous process improvement, guidance, coaching, and training.
Our ideal candidate understands various engineering lifecycles and has the strategic vision of how it could or should be, and pragmatically how to achieve the desired state. The preferred candidate will have a solid technical background, strategic mindset and ability to influence multiple levels of leadership and customers to drive cost, performance, schedule and improvement to innovate and execute engineering activities.
Specific Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
Discipline Execution
Ensure engineering organizations across the sector are operating with predictable, repeatable rigor.
Perform analysis to understand process differences between sites and, in collaboration with site leaders, implement change that achieves commonality to achieve business outcomes.
Execute across major discipline areas of Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Design Engineering, Integration and Test Engineering, etc., to define oversight methods (e.g., metrics).
Implement methods to drive engineering program performance and engineering organizational performance across cost, schedule, technical, quality, critical skills and staff, and various other areas.
Collaborate on engineering long-term vision and strategic alignment
Execute strategy and collaborate with organizational peers to stay ahead of industry trends and opportunities for innovation and engineering differentiation
Partner with division engineering teams to improve engineering competitiveness. Includes:
Leveraging sector reusable engineering assets (processes, guidance, tools, templates, and training) to design affordable systems at the speed of customer need
Providing support to program and product line teams through coaching and mentoring on the use of these sector assets
Partnering with other organizations to enhance systems engineering, mission engineering, digital design and product line engineering processes across programs
Partner with other organizations to establish metrics and other measures focused on execution
Improving engineering through updated, automated, and efficient processes
Act as Mission Systems’ primary sector interface to corporate, cross-sector, and intra-sector teams involved in related execution activities
Fostering collaboration through groups such as reusable asset authorities, advisory boards, communities of practice, and centers of excellence.
Process & Standards & Audits
· Leads team focused on engineering Principles and Operating Procedures (PrOP);
· Perform analysis on audit results to understand process gaps, process escapes, and implement plans to update processes and/or work with audited groups to rectify any issues
Cross-Functional Partnerships
Partner with other functional organizations (manufacturing, supply chain, program management, etc.) to enable competitive engineering design and performance, including changes to engineering processes, tools, data, and workflows.
Coordinating technical SMEs to support critical program milestones such as System Requirements Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, Manufacturing Readiness Reviews, etc.
Coordinate technical SMEs across organizations in support of other key decision points (e.g. Non-Advocate Reviews, Independent Review Teams, audits/technical oversight, etc.)
Team Leadership
Workforce planning, staffing, talent development & retention, employee engagement and diversity initiatives for the Engineering Discipline Execution team
Ensure engineering investments are value-added and aligned with strategic imperatives
Drive predictable financial results for funded efforts for the organization
Basic Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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