Responsibilities:

• Lead their IPT’s technical development efforts related to architecture, design, development, integration, validation, performance, certification and production. 
• Engage with other IPT Leads, Chief Engineers, Functional Managers, Program Office and Company Leadership to ensure successful program planning and execution 
• Authority and accountability for their IPT’s technical scope in alignment with schedule and budget.
• Support overall Program success by defining schedule inputs and changes into the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), maintaining timely and effective change management of the schedule.
• Monitor technical maturity and ensure that issues impacting progression are addressed immediately and corrective actions and recovery plans are implemented expeditiously
• Plan and coordinate activities to support formal validation and verification, including any test activities 
• Implement and follow Risk management activities to manage program technical, schedule, and cost risk. 
• Coordinate the engineering review, approval, and release processes of all key deliverables
• Support multidisciplinary program reviews and presentations throughout the different phases of development, certification, and production readiness with internal and external stakeholders

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other relevant STEM field
• 15+ years of experience in Aerospace engineering development and leadership with responsibility for scheduling and team/personnel management
• 5+ years of experience in leading a multi-functional, technically-oriented, Integrated Product Team
• Detailed knowledge of high and low voltage electrical power distribution topologies
• 5+ years of experience working with Aerospace technologies, products and services.
• Strong engineering analytical and technical skills with demonstrated experience delivering integrated technical solutions.
• Strong communicator and excellent soft skills to work across the whole organization.
• Experience performing cost and schedule management
• Experience with risk, issues, and/or opportunity management
• Strong decision-making abilities
• Effective at managing wide range of tasks and rapidly changing priorities.
• Knowledge of systems engineering and systems safety analyses and processes, including SAE ARP 4754A, Advisory Circular 23.1309-1E, SAE ARP 4761 as well as Part 25/29 certification requirements

Desired:

• Graduate level degree in engineering or other relevant STEM field.
• 2+ years of lithium ion cell characterization and testing experience
• 5+ years of experience in high-integrity battery pack design, including specification of all cell characteristics
• Demonstrated experience technical teams from the R&D stage to product delivery and in-service support, preferably with civil-certified aircraft.
• Experience with performance and destructive testing of electric vehicle battery systems, preferably within aircraft. 
• Experience with the design of battery management system state estimation and fault detection algorithms.
• Experience with the design of safety-critical high and low voltage voltage power distribution topologies.
• Developed complex systems using System Engineering processes including architecture development, systems integration, requirements development, validation, verification, process control etc. 
• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including use case development, activity diagrams, logical architecture, etc.
• Experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS)
• Knowledge of systems engineering and systems safety analyses and processes, including SAE ARP 4754A, Advisory Circular 23.1309-1E and SAE ARP 4761 
• Familiar with CAD software preferably NX, but also, Solidworks, CATIA, etc.