Systems Engineering Sr Mgr - L6

Program Description

The C-130J Relevancy team is seeking talented Engineering Project Manager to join the next significant chapter in modernization of the world's most reliable and longest lived tactical airlifter. In this role, you will develop and utilize your communication skills, flexibility, decisiveness, resilience, and sense of accountability to keep the C-130J design Relevant for decades to come. You will be a key contributor in a C-130J Relevancy Product Team that will apply relentless focus to the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality work products. To enable this, you will be given resources, transparent communication, space to try, technical tools, and real-time feedback you need to be successful. You will be empowered to make decisions, but supported during the decision making process by a high-performing team of collaborative and goal-oriented individuals. Modernizing products does not come without modernizing processes; in this role you will be expected to drive process optimization to maximize effectiveness and do business significantly different - "if you don't like it, fix it." Your work on the C-130J Relevancy program will have a lasting impact on the C-130J enterprise, the C-130J customer community, and on C-130J operators who expect this aircraft to perform the first time, every time.

The C-130J Relevancy program operates with an Agile mindset, utilizing collaborative tools (Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, etc.) to establish a single source of truth for all program data. This approach ensures all necessary data to inform critical decisions is correct and available to all team members when needed. This program is developmental in nature; to facilitate necessary collaboration, prevent functional siloes, and foster a true sense of product ownership, the Relevancy development team will be full time in-person and co-located unless pre-arranged accommodations have been made.

Job Description

• Drives technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
• Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions.
• Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. 
• Identify and own continuous improvement initiatives.
• Must be a US Citizen; this position will require a government security clearance. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline, or equivalent post‑secondary education combined with relevant professional experience.
• 10+ years of experience leading technical teams.
• Must be eligible for a Secret Clearance.

• Eager to be part of building a high-performing team culture
• Willing to give and receive feedback
• Willing to challenge the status quo
• Agile mindset, adaptability, flexibility, and tolerance for ambiguity will be required given the developmental nature of this program
• Strong communication skills
• Deep sense of pride, ownership, and accountability for all work products
• Decision-making and problem solving skills
• Experience with Atlassian tool suite (Jira & Confluence)
• Experience with EVMS/CAM preferred 
• Familiarity with C-130J platform preferred
• Familiarity with ARINC-664, 661, 653, AFDX, TSN
• Familiarity with FAA TSO process
• DER certification a significant plus