System Engineer

POSITION PROFILE

Position Title: Systems Engineer

Reports To: Engineering Lead

Key Cultural Competencies:

• Clearly grasps the overall vision and goals of a program
• Organized, attentive to details, strong planner
• Produces desired results on time and on budget, results oriented
• Team player, team oriented
• Innovative, flexible, embraces change
• Values free enterprise, patriotic
• High work ethic, dedicated, loyal
• Lifelong learner, always seeks to grow professionally and personally
• Responsible and accountable
• Passionate leader, inspires and challenges others
• Awareness and sensitivity to potential business opportunities
• Highly ethical, honest, operates from the highest levels of integrity
• Professional in demeanor and appearance, graceful under pressure
• Passionate for his/her work, self motivated
• Good verbal, written and visual communicator
• Positive, friendly and energetic, skilled at building relationships, deals effectively with people at all levels

Qualifications:

• US Citizen
• At least 10 years’ experience in a highly technical research and development, engineering and/or manufacturing environments or equivalent.
• At least 5 years’ experience managing technical projects; including but not limited to schedules, budgets and other resources.
• Demonstrated skill at galvanizing a multi-disciplinary team in working towards a common goal.
• Experience and competent in working with Microsoft Excel and Project.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field or equivalent.
• Experience working closely with multiple disciplines such as electronics, mechanical, software and management.

Key Results:

• Interfaces with customers and Program Managers to establish program requirements, budgets and deliverables.
• With Program Manager, generates product specifications that meet or exceed customer requirements.
• Ensures smooth and effective integration of internal subsystems and with customer systems.
• With Program Manager, manages programs for “on budget” and “on time” deliver.
• Ensures quality standards are met 100% of the time.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Plans, coordinates and monitors the technical performance of Company programs.
• Assists in the development of specifications from customer requirements.
• Orchestrates project designs, prototype builds and testing, third party environmental testing, final acceptance validation, and project documentation.
• Ensures adherence to program goals.
• Eliminates internal and external ambiguities in the design and development process.
• Identifies program problems and solves them.
• Takes ownership of the engineering processes and is the principal quality liaison.
• Other activities as identified and assigned.