Director, Engineering Management

Job Title: Director, Engineering Management

Job Code: 35166

Job Location: Herndon, VA

Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days, totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off.

Job Description

The Engineering Manager position requires a skilled engineering leader with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will be adept at working collaboratively with various internal and external stakeholders and will demonstrate strong organizational leadership. This position requires experience interfacing with both program management and technical teams to lead an organization focused on developing and maintaining cutting‑edge air traffic surveillance systems.

Essential Functions

• Develop and execute a clear vision and strategy while fostering an engaged, high-performance team capable of excelling in collaboration, innovation, and responsiveness to customer and business needs.
• Oversee engineering resource planning and project management, ensuring that project teams meet customer commitments within allocated budgets and schedules.
• Identify and drive strategic initiatives aimed at improving the overall performance of the engineering organization.
• Deliver comprehensive presentations in a clear and concise manner to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Enforce engineering discipline and rigor to ensure quality and disciplined execution across all engineering activities including program, IR&D project, and engineering gate reviews.
• Provide mentorship, technical guidance, and growth opportunities for both engineering and management staff within the organization.
• Attract, hire, retain, and grow top talent, fostering a cohesive culture that emphasizes innovation, creativity, execution, transparency, and collaboration.
• Oversee critical elements of the bid and proposal process, including technical and cost baseline reviews and basis of estimate approvals.
• Contribute to new business initiatives by cultivating cross‑functional relationships in business development and ensuring strategic alignment across business areas.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of related engineering experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace, Physics, or a related science. A graduate degree requires a minimum of 13 years of related experience, or if no degree, a minimum of 19 years of experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of system life‑cycle development experience with aerospace and telecommunication systems, including system design, development, integration, analysis, and verification, with direct experience with FAA surveillance systems.
• RTCA DO‑278 compliance experience.
• Experience with microservices architecture and cloud architecture.
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Experience in air surveillance systems, including radar, sensors, and data fusion technologies.
• Ability to obtain an FAA Position of Public Trust clearance.

Security clearance requirements: many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigations and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug‑free workplace and performs pre‑employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.

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