Engineering Section Lead

Job Description
In Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems, you’ll 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. At Electronic Systems, you’ll be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry’s most difficult problems. 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®”. The Signals Exploitation Capability Group is a cross-functional multi-disciplinary team which provides engineering talent, technical expertise and new technology and research to the BAE Systems Electronic Systems Defense Sector.

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 (Manager):
Within the Signals Exploitation Capability Group, 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:

• Contribute to the vision and mission of the SECG
• 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):
As a technical contributor, you will be involved in the full systems lifecycle from requirements, algorithm, software and hardware development through integration and testing. Duties include planning, specification development, coding and testing complex software and/or DSP programs and assisting in other engineering activities such as integration testing, algorithm & data analysis and software troubleshooting.

Due to our need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time on site. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills