General Dynamics Mission Systems has an immediate opportunity for a Mechanical Engineering Resource Manager in our Pittsfield, Massachusetts location. This position provides leadership in defining technology, tool and process strategy across a technical domain.
Responsibilities and Tasks:
- Overall responsibility for the engineering aspects of a technical domain, to include the acquisition of critical resources
- Directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of engineering efforts within area of responsibility
- Capable of identifying project risks, assessing issues and developing resolutions that meet cost, schedule productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives
- Review’s status of projects and budgets, manages schedules, and prepares status reports
- Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, clients and other stakeholders
- Serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management
- Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function
- Handles personnel issues within area of responsibility including merit planning, performance reviews and disciplinary actions
- Participates in development of technical strategies and teaming strategies in technical domain
- Participates in the proposal process, including the development of executable project plans on proposals
- Ensures process compliance of all engineering activity in area of responsibility
- Leads specific process improvement activities
- Determines and implements the organizational training needs in accordance with the requirements of the technical domain
- Ensures that domain engineers are active in developing risk mitigation plans and managing their risk profiles
- May have budget responsibilities
- Frequently interacts with subordinate supervisors and employees
- Communicates regularly with project customer, and suppliers, project team, and internal management
- Regular contact with all other personnel in area of responsibility
- Receives assignments in the form of objectives and determines how to use resources to meet schedules and goals
- Provides guidance to subordinates within the latitude of established company policies
- Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s)
- Expected to manage work, set objectives and meet commitments for self and others
- Delegates assignments to others for developing solutions
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong Ability to lead and manage a dynamic team of engineers
- Applies or develops highly advanced technologies, principles, theories and concepts
- Strong written and verbal communications skills, bridges communication across teams
- Creative Thinker
- Strong ability to multi-task, skilled at executing complex tasks
- Strong ability in communicating issues, impacts, and corrective actions
- Strong ability to understand and apply project leadership principles including SPI/CPI, Earned Value, Cost Account Management (CAM)
- Very strong experience in driving continuous improvement in Engineering process and tools
- Works collaboratively with resources external to the functional or program team
- Responsible for establishing and achieving operational objectives for a moderately complex function, program or program scope
- Expected to integrate complex activities
- High-level of proficiency at all responsibilities associated with the position
- Very strong ability to recruit, manage and retain people
- Typically, has very strong experience in this area of expertise
- Understands, evaluates and guides the focus of all activities in a technical domain
- Recognized internally and externally as an expert in their field
- Demonstrates consistently high ratings on People Commitments
- Travel may be required
- Erroneous decisions or recommendations may have long-term effects and may affect the image of the company’s capability
Position Location: This position will be located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts with HYBRID working arrangements onsite 3 days per week.
