At ST Engineering iDirect, we’re reshaping the future of global connectivity. As a leader in satellite communications, our groundbreaking technology empowers customers to grow, innovate, and transform their networks. Here, your skills and passion meet our vision and expertise to create something extraordinary. If you're ready to tackle technology’s biggest challenges and redefine how the world connects, the most exciting chapter of your career awaits. With ST Engineering iDirect, the sky isn’t the limit—it’s just the beginning.
Responsibilities- Successful delivery of large hardware development programs
- Manage overall engineering project planning and delivery in line with product management roadmap
- Assure that engineering team achieves objectives and development plan
- Working collaboratively with cross functional and cross divisional teams to meet defined goals and objectives, as part of overall roadmap and program delivery
- Work with vendors, stakeholders and subject matter experts to develop detailed work package definitions, budget, resourcing plan and implementation plan
- Drive collaboration and teamwork to execute the plan, and monitor progress
- Provide accurate and timely status reporting for internal and external customers
- Manage project forecasting of allocated resources and overall budget
- Measure performance metrics with respect to team productivity and quality
- Manage team budget and resource planning/allocation activities
- Have a good understanding of the life cycle of a hardware development project, the main activities and their interdependencies such as requirements collection, prototype design and validation, BOM cost management, regulatory compliance testing and hand-over from engineering to manufacturing.
- Demonstrated leadership, communication and decision-making skills in a highly technical work environment
- Have an entrepreneurial attitude with a ‘can do’ mentality.
- Experience leading matrixed and multi-location engineering organizations, with international experience
- Strong management, mentoring, relationship management, strategy development, project management, problem solving and change management skills.
- Leadership skills to help the team navigate through a dynamic industry and the ability to demonstrate grace under fire
- Strong program management and negotiation skills, oral and written communication skills, and the ability to work in a team environment are musts.
- Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills – oral/written communications, relationship building, negotiation and conflict mediation – across multiple levels in the organization
- Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment, able to balance multiple projects and tasks, complete them successfully, and within timelines
- Strong interpersonal skill and oral and written communication skills
- Experience of implementing and controlling change Management
- Highly proficient in Jira, Business Intelligence and Reporting industry standard tools
- Experience in leading ESA-funded projects, compiling ESA project status reports and driving milestone reviews is an asset.
- Additional certification as Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile development (eg SCRUM) is an asset.
Education: Bachelor's degree in mathematics, engineering, a related subject area, or equivalent experience
Experience:
- 7+ years of overall engineering experience in hardware development or related technical fields
- 5+ years of hands-on experience managing telecommunications development and integration engineering teams on implementation of major software/hardware development projects
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in mathematics, engineering, a related subject area, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of overall engineering experience in hardware development or related technical fields
- 5+ years of hands-on experience managing telecommunications development and integration engineering teams on major software or hardware development projects
- Understanding of the hardware development lifecycle, including requirements collection, prototype design and validation, BOM cost management, regulatory compliance testing, and transition to manufacturing
- Experience leading matrixed and multi-location engineering organizations, including international experience
- Strong program and project management, leadership, communication, negotiation, decision-making, problem-solving, change management, and relationship management skills
- Ability to prioritize and execute multiple tasks successfully in a high-pressure environment
- Proficiency in Jira, Business Intelligence, and industry-standard reporting tools
- Experience implementing and controlling change management
- Experience leading ESA-funded projects, compiling ESA project status reports, and driving milestone reviews
- Project Management Professional certification
- Agile development certification or experience, such as Scrum
What We Do
iDirect Government delivers secure satellite-based voice, video and data applications with anytime and anywhere connectivity in the air, at sea and on land. iDirect Government’s advanced satellite IP solutions are used for critical ISR, airborne, maritime and COTM communications to support force protection, logistics, situational awareness, disaster recovery and emergency response. Building on more than 18 years of global satellite communications experience, iDirect Government provides the most bandwidth-efficient, scalable and highly secure platform to meet specialized applications of multiple federal, state and local government agencies, including the Department of Defense, both domestically and abroad. iDirect Government is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia






