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Job Title	Chief Systems Engineer
Location	Huntsville AL
Business Unit	Battle Management Systems Division
Relocation Available ?	Yes
Job Description	General Dynamics C4 Systems' Battle Management Systems Division designs, develops, and integrates highly sophisticated command, control, and communications systems for the U.S. military, federal agencies, civil governments and related international customers. These state-of-the-art, integrated systems combine advanced visualization software and multi-sensor inputs to provide near real-time situational awareness to tactical decision makers. Our engineers help transform large amounts of complex data into useful information that is clearly and intuitively presented to end users, enabling them to make better-informed decisions. We design and develop systems and software for a wide range of global missions including: battle command; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; airspace management; crisis and emergency management; peace keeping and contingency operations; drug intervention, and public safety. The purpose of the Chief Systems Engineer is to provide proactive leadership within all domains of the division's engineering community with a focus on providing technical leadership for systems development activities, continuous improvement of the organization's development process, leadership in planning the next generation technology and tools, and development of staff needed in order to facilitate efficient execution of our current and future programs. In addition to these responsibilities, support new business opportunities and proposals.. Responsibilities and Expectations: 1. Strategic and Tactical Leadership a. Provide leadership in technology roadmap planning at the business unit and division levels. b. Provide leadership in IRAD and ESP planning and execution. c. Support front end business development activities including planning, customer visits, and presentations and be a thought leader in proposal development. d. Collaborate extensively with external customers and partners, internally within the division and externally across GDC4S. e. Develop customer intimacy, understanding their needs, and communicating at the appropriate level of the varying degrees of technical knowledge. 2. Technical Leadership a. Oversee system development activity to assure our designs are technically sound, and we meet requirements and regulations. b. Provide leadership in engineering problem solving across the division. c. Provide guidance to ensure we conduct ourselves with integrity. 3. Staff Development a. Provide leadership in technical staff development, through support of strategic hiring, mentoring, and by facilitating technical staff training. b. Assist engineering task leaders with application and tailoring of standard development processes to maximize benefit to project performance. 4. Process Improvement a. Assess health and viability of division engineering development performance. b. Provide innovative leadership in improvement of engineering process and efficiency and in the projects’ application of these improvements. c. Plan the next generation technology and tools needed in order to facilitate efficient execution of our current and future programs. d. Work with other concurrent engineering disciplines within the division and other organizations within GDC4S to help optimize overall project performance. BMSD is a geographically dispersed organization. The successful candidate can work out of the Orlando, Huntsville or Pittsburgh office. Travel will be required and may require extended durations in the support of proposal development or direct program support. Specific Knowledge: The ideal candidate with have most of the following attributes: Education: BS degree in the field of Electrical Engineering. An advanced degree is desirable. Experience: 12 years of demonstrated experience in the field of systems engineering on DoD programs with a wide background including: - Understanding of the entire life cycle of a system development program - Experience developing and reviewing systems engineering artifacts for critical mission systems - Solid foundation in software development programs including Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) trends and approaches - Experience with hardware development programs - Experience with the development and implementation of Verification and Validation of large complex systems - Solid foundation in computing technology - Solid foundation in Networks - Solid foundation in Communications - Solid foundation in Wireless network communications - Solid foundation in Distributed computing - Mechanical engineering knowledge including concepts and approaches with a good understanding of thermal, shock, and vibration and power disciplines. - Experience developing technology roadmaps and doing strategic planning. - Experience applying depth of knowledge in identifying leading edge and breakaway technologies. - Experience accessing the risk of new development and providing leadership in the mitigation of these risks using a structured risk management approach. - Experience presenting solutions to technical issues to a non-technical audience. - Technical domain expertise in one or more of the following areas is required: o Battle Command o C2 o C4 systems o ISR o Modeling and Simulations Systems Must be able to travel 20% of the time. Secret level U.S. DoD security clearance, and U.S. Citizenship is required.
Desired Major	Electrical Engineering Computer Science Computer Engineering
Desired Degree	BS
Req. Number	S09-10372-04
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