Electrical Engineering Manager

Our client has an immediate opening for an Electrical Engineering Manager in their Pittsfield, MA office.

Please note: Department of Defense Secret Security Clearance is required.

Job Description

• Provides leadership in defining technology, tool and process strategy across a technical domain
• Overall responsibility for the engineering aspects of a technical domain, to include the acquisition of critical resources
• Directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of engineering efforts within area of responsibility
• Capable of identifying project risks, assessing issues and developing resolutions that meet cost, schedule productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives
• Review’s status of projects and budgets, manages schedules, and prepares status reports
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, clients and other stakeholders
• Serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management
• Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function
• Handles personnel issues within area of responsibility including merit planning, performance reviews and disciplinary actions
• Participates in development of technical strategies and teaming strategies in technical domain
• Participates in the proposal process, including the development of executable project plans on proposals
• Ensures process compliance of all engineering activity in area of responsibility
• Leads specific process improvement activities
• Determines and implements the organizational training needs in accordance with the requirements of the technical domain
• Ensures that domain engineers are active in developing risk mitigation plans and managing their risk profiles
• May have budget responsibilities
• Frequently interacts with subordinate supervisors and employees
• Communicates regularly with project customer, and suppliers, project team, and internal management
• Regular contact with all other personnel in area of responsibility
• Receives assignments in the form of objectives and determines how to use resources to meet schedules and goals
• Provides guidance to subordinates within the latitude of established company policies
• Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s)
• Expected to manage work, set objectives and meet commitments for self and others
• Delegates assignments to others for developing solutions

Required Skills:

• Previous experience with Strategic (or other High Consequence) Systems
• Strong leadership skills
• Applies or develops highly advanced technologies, principles, theories and concepts
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, bridges communication across teams
• Strong ability to think creatively
• Strong ability to multi-task, skilled at executing complex tasks
• Strong ability in communicating issues, impacts, and corrective actions
• Strong ability to understand and apply project leadership principles including SPI/CPI, Earned Value, Cost Account Management (CAM)
• Strong experience in driving continuous improvement in Engineering process and tools
• Works collaboratively with resources external to the functional or program team
• Responsible for establishing and achieving operational objectives for a moderately complex function, program or program scope
• Expected to integrate complex activities
• Strong proficiency at all responsibilities associated with the position
• Strong ability to recruit, manage and retain people
• Typically has strong experience in this area of expertise
• Understands, evaluates and guides the focus of all activities in a technical domain
• Recognized internally and externally as an expert in their field
• Demonstrates consistently high ratings on People Commitments

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. 
• Engineering Management.
• Systems Engineering.
• 10+ to 15 years of experience.