Standard Job Description

The Uncrewed Maritime Solutions within the RMS SEMS line of business is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager to lead a diversified team that includes System Engineers, Controls and Specialty Analysis Engineers and Integration and Test Engineers, located in Palm Beach Facility in South Florida. The successful candidate will be leading a Team that designs and builds unmanned and manned underwater vehicle systems for a variety of customers.

What You Will Be Doing

• Leadership: Lead a cross-functional team of engineers in performing mission analysis, system architecture, requirements definition/management, integration, test, and verification on unmanned and manned underwater vehicle systems.
• Guiding SEI&T Engineering Team in program planning, scheduling, trade studies, design concepts, verification, and critical life cycle reviews.
• Ensuring program staffing is appropriate from an E&T perspective
• Ensuring MBSE processes and tools are applied to Programs.
• Supporting proposals with Basis of Estimate development and approval
• Collaborating with Engineering Excellence management to ensure program milestones are successfully completed.
• Supporting and leading technical reviews and participating in monthly E&T meetings, staff meetings, and other critical program activities.
• System Solution Ownership: Be responsible for the system solution to meet mission objectives, ensuring compliance with technical requirements, identifying and mitigating system risks and opportunities, and applying Systems Engineering standard processes and practices.
• Integration, Test, and Verification: Provide leadership and guidance, focusing on hardware and software integration and testing.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Interface with Program Leadership and other stakeholders to ensure the system solution is achieved within budget and schedule constraints.
• Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with engineering disciplines and Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to ensure synchronized system trades, decisions, design and integration, qualification testing, and verification planning.
• Mentoring and help build careers of junior engineers in the Systems Engineering discipline through focused training, collaboration and continuous feedback.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership during proposal phase, design and development efforts, integration, test, and qualification.
• Develop and execute detailed program plans, schedules, and trade study analyses.
• Lead or support customer briefings, weekly IPT status updates, Technical Interchange Meetings, Technical Readiness Reviews (TRRs), and other critical program reviews.
• Participate in Failure Review Boards, Risk Management, TRRs  and Mission Success Reviews.
• Support technical reviews internally, with the customer, and external stakeholders, and at supplier locations.
• Responsible for managing the technical response for new proposals and working with the technical team to generate estimates and conduct independent technical reviews.
• Ensuring the overall system requirements and design aligns with strategic goals of the program.
• Leading cross-functional engineering activities, including trade studies, system analyses, configuration control, verification planning and execution, affordability considerations, and risk and opportunity management.
• Collaborating with customers, integrating and testing planning and execution, and participating in major design reviews.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering discipline, Math (STEM), or related. MS degree preferred.

Hold Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance.

Prior technical and leadership experience in Systems Engineering and Integration and Test with subsea systems.

Demonstrated ability to lead engineering activities in in subsea system programs, including but not limited to trade studies, system analyses requirements development and management, architecture development, MBSE, configuration control of the technical baseline (SW and HW), verification planning and execution, Integration and Test planning and execution, affordability considerations, and risk and opportunity management.

Experience required includes prototype, developmental and tactical system development program experience, customer interface, requirements derivation/allocation, integration and test planning and execution, understanding of Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) and their application, and participation or leadership in major design reviews.

Experience in Cost Account Management and Earned Value Management.

Works closely with program management, functional leads and chief engineer to mitigate risk and execute programs on cost and on schedule.

Coordinate employee recruitment, selection, retention and training.

Defined work scope expectations and resource loading.

Develop and coach employees; complete performance assessments related to salary/recognition, and coordinate disciplinary actions with HR.

Desired Skills

Experience in MBSE tools (i.e., MATLAB/Simulink. Cameo, DOORS) and implementation. 

Control Systems design and analysis experience. An understanding of CFD analysis desired.

Earned Value Management (EVM) experience and certified Control Account Management (CAM) experience.