Systems Engineering Section Manager

Job Description
In Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems, you will help develop systems that sense, control, exploit and disseminate actionable information to warfighters supporting a variety of missions. Our employees work on the world’s most advanced electronics. Our flexible work environment provides you with a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first – exemplified by our missions: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®”.

This is a dual role where you will serve as player-coach, where some of your time is allocated to being a manager of engineers and part of your time as a technical contributor/lead. This balance enables you to work on programs and manage your team.

Roles and Responsibilities (Section Lead):
Within the Systems Engineering Section, you will manage a team of engineers. As the section manager of systems engineers, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Recruit, retain, train, recognize and develop systems engineers to achieve their highest potential in alignment with the business needs
• Assign team members as appropriate to programs, IRADs and proposals
• Develop individual and group goals and objectives
• Communicate flow-down company, business area and discipline information
• Mentor careers by development of career and training plans
• Ensure group members adhere to BAE Systems' cultural principals, policies and vision

Roles and Responsibilities (Technical Contributor/Leader):
As a technical contributor/leader, you will be involved in the full systems lifecycle from requirements, algorithm, software and hardware development through integration and testing. Duties include:

• Providing system engineering content and work products, which includes developing the requirements baseline, design, integration and fielding of this capability.
• Utilizing digital engineering and model-based systems engineering
• Provides support to the EVMS including budgeting, reporting and task assignments.
• Interface with Systems Engineering and Software Development Teams
• Implementing Integration and test to validate requirements
• Problem/anomaly reporting, tracking and resolution
• Supports field test preparation and performance
• Proposal preparation including technical and cost.

BAE Systems offers competitive pay, benefits, and important work-life balance initiatives including every other Friday Off and flextime. BAE believes in a culture of recognition for the extraordinary contributions of our skilled employees. Our engineers are the lifeblood of our company and we’re more than 5,000 strong. Come build your career with BAE Systems.