Job Responsibilities:
Achieves optimal electrical system operational efficiency by developing and maintaining electrical systems.
Accomplishes operational objectives by recruiting, onboarding, and managing employees.
Communicates job expectations, monitoring and reviews job contributions, plans and adjusts compensation actions, and enforces staff policies and procedures.
Optimizes engineering performance by contributing engineering recommendations to strategic planning and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standard goals; resolving engineering issues; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; and implementing change.
Meets departmental financial objectives by forecasting requirements and challenges, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.
Develops strategic electrical plans by studying operational plans and existing conditions, determining needs to accomplish operational plans, mapping solutions, updating and modifying requirements and solutions, and preparing cost estimates and budgets.
Plans electrical projects by determining specifications, selecting contractors, establishing installation schedules, planning shut-downs and installations, integrating architectural and mechanical design specifications, verifying code requirements, and updating cost estimates.
Completes electrical projects by supervising installations and resolving design issues.
Maintains electrical systems by establishing and enforcing ongoing maintenance schedules and procedures and testing programs, scheduling repairs, and coordinating shut-downs and installations.
Maintains safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures, and complying with legal regulations.
Updates job knowledge by remaining current on codes and requirements, participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, and participating in professional organizations.
Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by collaborating with other members of senior management.
Manages vendor and subcontractor relationships.
Define, maintain, and improve the department’s development processes and best practices.
Ensure staff are properly using best practices and the development processes on their assigned programs.
Provide regular labor and resource planning to support programs and activities.
Actively support all phases of hiring activities for the team
Support management of morale and work to proactively mitigate attrition.
Support succession planning and identification/development of key talent.
Carry out performance management and goal setting of all direct reports and indirect reports, both formal and informal. Provide meaningful, constructive feedback to ensure the development of each staff member.
Lead performance improvement plan formulation and execution as needed.
Proactively support reward and recognition activities for the staff members. Develop and submit merit recommendations during the yearly merit review cycle.
Perform conflict resolution between teammates as required.
Take an active role in the professional development of each staff member. May include identification, guidance, and support of formal training, on-the-job training, mentoring, and/or new program assignments.
Proactively mentor, coach, assist, and/or provide additional help to engineers in the analysis, design, build, integration, test, validation, verification, documentation, and/or maintenance of products.
Foster an individual and team culture of Continuous Improvement (CI)
Engineering Individual Contributor
Analog and digital design of ruggedized electronics for ordnance applications.
Circuit tolerance analyses using hand calculations and Spice tools
Requirements development, refinement, and compliance.
Generate test plans and test reports related to product performance (Brassboard, Design Verification, Qualification, Firing Properties, etc.)
Lead and direct test activities in all phases of product development cycle.
Lead failure investigations using structured tools (8D, Fishbone, Cause & Effect, etc.).
Generate material for and participate in design reviews for all phases of the product development cycle.
Act as technical interface to internal and external customers.
Provide inputs (material and labor estimates) for Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree. Graduate Degree in engineering with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
9+ years of experience designing with basic analog building blocks including differential amplifiers, op amps, LDOs, filters, and data converters
7+ years of experience designing with basic digital building blocks including logic gates, flip flops, timers, and filters
5+ years of experience with power supply and power conditioning design
5+ years of experience with power conversion concepts (AC/DC, DC/DC, and DC/AC, Linear and Switching Supplies)
5+ years of experience with serial communication buses including UART, SPI, and I2C
5+ years experience leading and managing product development teams
4+ years of experience with Temperature sensors, MEMs accelerometers, differential pressure sensors, and GYROs
4+ years of experience with general design best practices (EMI suppression, ESD protection, and Short circuit protection)
7+ years of experience with module design including component selection, circuit analysis, circuit design, and layout
9+ years of expereince in troubleshooting using standard lab equipment (oscilloscopes, function generators, meters, etc.)
5+ years of experience with modeling and simulation utilities (LTSpice, MATLAB/Simulink, etc.)
6+ years of experience with schematic capture and/or board layout utilities (Altium, PADS, etc.)
6+ years of experience lead a large scale technical project from start to completion with minimal guidance
6+ years of experience in preparing and participating in design reviews (internal and external)
6+ years of experience in creating Technical Documentation (Test Plans, Test Reports, Drawings, etc.)
5+ years of experience with Root Cause analysis
Qualifications/Skills:
Electronic testing design
Electronic production technologies
Electronic systems
Technical management
Budgeting
Management proficiency
Electronics troubleshooting
Basic safety
Quality focus
Process improvement
Leadership
Report writing skills
Project management
Vendor and subcontractor relationship building and maintenance
