Chief Engineer, Production

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical authority for assigned MUAS production and sustainment programs.
• Maintain technical ownership of the product baseline, including system architecture, requirements, interfaces, configuration, and performance.
• Lead engineering support for products in production and deployed in the field.
• Drive resolution of complex technical issues involving design, integration, manufacturing, testing, reliability, quality, suppliers, and field performance.
• Lead multidisciplinary root-cause investigations and ensure effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Provide technical direction for engineering changes, deviations, waivers, nonconformances, and configuration-management activities.
• Evaluate and approve proposed product, process, material, and supplier changes.
• Partner with manufacturing and operations teams to improve producibility, yield, throughput, cost, and product quality.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.
• Typically, 15 or more years of progressive engineering experience in aerospace, defense, unmanned systems, or a related technical industry.
• Demonstrated experience supporting complex products through production and sustainment.
• Experience serving as a technical lead, chief engineer, systems engineer, or equivalent engineering authority.
• Experience with engineering change management, configuration management, requirements management, and product-baseline control.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional technical teams and resolving complex production or field-performance issues.
• Experience with root-cause analysis, corrective action, reliability improvement, and failure investigation.
• Working knowledge of systems engineering, integration, verification, validation, and test processes.