Aviation Weapons Portfolio Requirements Manager

Job Description
See what you are missing. Our employees work on the world’s most advanced electronics – from providing the latest technologies in Smart Munitions sensor solutions to illuminating the night for soldiers. Spanning air, land, sea, and space, we are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our differences, we are innovating for the future. In addition, you can, too. 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 mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come enhance your career with us.
BAE Systems, Precision Guidance and Sensing Solutions (PGSS) Product Line, within the Precision Strike (PS) Business Area, has an immediate opening for a Senior Principal Systems Engineer that is well versed in the overall Systems Engineering process and associated phases of the program life cycle. In this position, the candidate is expected to support our Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System (APKWS) portfolio of development projects. This may also include being able to provide ongoing support to supplier activities as needed to meet delivery schedules and design review requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish requirements baseline for programs along with understanding how and why requirements decomposition and traceability
• Specification development, organization and overall requirements development understanding –necessary, sufficient, and verifiable
• Develop requirements in response to customer operational needs and mature operational concepts, and derive technical baselines necessary to meet the requirements
• Assist in the flow down of requirements to testable modular hardware and software

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline, preferably Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering

• Minimum of 8 years of applicable experience

• Active Secret Clearance

• Experience working across the entire Systems Engineering Lifecycle with emphasis on the ‘Left Side of the VEE Diagram’

• Experience using Model Based Systems Engineering tools such as Magic Draw and CAMEO

• Experience communicating effectively with senior leadership and other engineering disciplines

• Experience aiding in the ability to understand and generate CONOPS   

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills