Associate Manager, Electrical Engineering

About the job

Job Title: Associate Manager, Electrical Engineering

Job Code: 42787

Job Location: Cincinnati, OH

Job Schedule: 4/10: Employees work 10 hour days, 4 days a week

Job Description:

As an Electrical Engineering Associate Manager, you will be in a dual-role manager position, involving both front-line management of a team of engineers and performance of individual productive work on a program.  L3Harris Engineering Managers possess the skills of a top-notch influencer, motivator, and leader who can grow a team of engineers while advancing their own career in a management role and in engineering leadership.

Essential Functions:

Engineering Individual Contributor

• Analog and digital design of ruggedized electronics for ordnance applications.

• Circuit tolerance analyses using hand calculations and Spice tools

• Requirements development, refinement, and compliance.

• Generate test plans and test reports related to product performance (Brassboard, Design Verification, Qualification, Firing Properties, etc.)

• Lead and direct test activities in all phases of product development cycle.

• Lead failure investigations using structured tools (8D, Fishbone, Cause & Effect, etc.).

• Generate material for and participate in design reviews for all phases of the product development cycle.

• Act as technical interface to internal and external customers.

• Provide inputs (material and labor estimates) for Requests for Proposals (RFPs).

Management

• Assist department manager in defining, maintaining, and improving the department’s development processes and best practices.

• Ensure staff are properly using best practices and the development processes on their assigned programs.

• Provide regular labor and resource planning to support programs and activities.

• Actively support all phases of hiring activities for the team

• Support management of morale and work to proactively mitigate attrition.

• Support succession planning and identification/development of key talent.

• Carry out performance management and goal setting of all direct reports, both formal and informal. Provide meaningful, constructive feedback to ensure the development of each staff member.

• Lead performance improvement plan formulation and execution as needed.

• Proactively support reward and recognition activities for the staff members. Develop and submit merit recommendations during the yearly merit review cycle.

• Perform conflict resolution between teammates as required.

• Take an active role in the professional development of each staff member. May include identification, guidance, and support of formal training, on-the-job training, mentoring, and/or new program assignments.

• Proactively mentor, coach, assist, and/or provide additional help to engineers in the analysis, design, build, integration, test, validation, verification, documentation, and/or maintenance of products.

• Foster an individual and team culture of Continuous Improvement (CI)

• Ability to obtain security clearance if required

• Must be a U.S. Person

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline with minimum of 6 years prior related experience.  Graduate degree with a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.  In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and various CAD/CAE tools is required.

• The individual will have a history of setting high goals and standards for self, others, and the organization, be dissatisfied with average performance and assume full responsibility for results.

• The individual will be a self-starter, identify and understand issues, problems, and opportunities, effectively manage one's time and resources, and be a team player.

• Strong focus on originating action to improve existing conditions and processes, identifying improvement opportunities, generating ideas, and implementing solutions are also characteristics of a strong candidate. Individuals will also demonstrate professional and ethical behavior in all business dealings.

• Outstanding communication (both verbal and written), collaboration, time management, presentation, and organizational skills

• Ability to conduct reviews of electrical designs, circuit analysis, and engineering change notices

• Experience with creating engineering estimates, plans, and BoE’s

Preferred Additional Skills:

• BSEE/CompE +8 years of experience, or MSEE/CompE +6 years of experience

• Experience with temperature sensors, MEMs accelerometers, differential pressure sensors, and Gyros.

• Experience designing for ESD protection

• Experience with PADS Logic/Layout and Altium Designer

• EMI Design and Test Experience (MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-461)

• Design for extreme environments (Vibration, Shock, Temperature, Temperature & Humidity)

• Energetic materials interfacing/testing (EFDIs, LEEFIs, Lead Charges, Boosters).

• Familiarity with MIL-STD-1316, MIL-STD-1901

• Experience with Root Cause Corrective Action tools and processes

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