Associate Director Mission Engineering Department

The Enterprise Effects Division (EED) drives integration of Aerospace’s strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. The divisionleveragesa broad array of engineering disciplines against a dynamic portfolio of programs, customers, and national challenges. EED spans the capability lifecycle from concept and architecture design to performance assessment to application of space and space-enabled capabilities.

The Mission Engineering Department(MED)provides technicalexpertiseand leadership in mission engineering methods, processes, and tools to a broad range of customers, includingDoD,NSS, NASA, NOAA, NNSA, and others. Members of the Mission Engineering Department evaluate and assess customer mission-integration needs and/or challenges, develop end-to-end mission threads, and provide timely advice, make recommendations to enterprise leaders on risks, issues, and gaps, and develop recommended solutions to enable desired mission outcomes.MEDapplies the mission-engineering tradecraft tocharacterize,build,and analyze end-to-end effects-chains.

The Associate Director will lead these efforts, build partnerships with customers, and ensurethat MEDis staffed with top talent to solve complex challenges.TheAssociate Director is expected tomentor and serve asarole model forMED andjunior staff. 

Work Model 

This isafull-time,on-siteposition basedin one of ourAerospaceoffices in. (El Segundo, CA or Chantilly, VA)

WhatYou’llBe Doing

• Lead multi-disciplinaryteamsand foster a culture of innovation and collaboration

• Ensurethedepartmentmaintainsarobust relationshipwith peer organizationsand the program offices,leveragingexpertisefromacross Aerospaceandincorporating best practices in enterprise systems engineering

• Overseetasks to ensureproperimplementationresultingin delivery of keyobjectivesand key results to the customer

• Identifyrisks, issues, and gapsinkey deliverable; Providerecommendationsthatwill inform customer decisions on priorities, funding, requirements, and resourcing for organizations, systems, and training 

• Develop and leadproject teamscomprisingofAerospace, customer, and contractor personnel on multiple concurrent projects to elicit andidentifyneeds, requirements, and constraints for studies and marshal technicalexpertiseinmultiple technical disciplines and domains to enable concurrent engineering approaches

• Mentor early career and experienced staff, serving as a role model and technical advisor to an exceptionally talented and highly motivated cadre of mission engineers to develop department capabilities and meet emergingdemandsfor departmentexpertise

What You Need to be Successful

MinimumRequirements forMEDAssociate Director:

• Bachelor of Sciencedegree in a technical field, or abachelor’sdegree and equivalent technical experience 

• Substantive experience in space, intelligence, and/or defense domains, typically10or more years 

• Demonstrated experience withteam leadershipandproject planning

• Exhibits exceptionallyhigh levelofinitiative,innovation,andcreativeness 

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with customers, Aerospace program offices, and contractors; to collaborate with other functional organizations within Aerospace

• Experience developing and presenting strategic decision-making and strategic communications artifacts for senior-level management and technical architecture design artifacts for engineering-level reviews 

• Time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and to organize and lead cross-functional, cross-organizational teams to execute studies and assessments 

• Proficient with engineering and analytic capabilities such as Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) or modeling and simulation 

• Willing to travel domestically<10% 

• This position requires a current and active TS/SCI security clearance 

How You Can Stand Out

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

• Demonstrated success in organizing and leading cross-functional, cross-organizational teams to execute studies and assessments and generate quality products 

• Hands-on experience with system or enterprise modeling in the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), Unified Architecture Framework (UAF), or Unified Profile forDoDAFand MODAF (UPDM) 

• Experience working closely with key Aerospace customer agencies in the defense and intelligence community, including strong knowledge of their domain and strong professional networksranging from operations, requirements, resourcing, acquisitions,testand training

• Experience working large, complex issues and the ability to break down problems into meaningful steps, assigning the tasks to ateamand ensuring the team provides the requisite deliverables on time