What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Hardware Engineering position at SIMPLY STAFFED?
Required Qualifications: Must have one of these combinations
- Bachelor’s Degree with a Minimum of 15 years of prior related (preferred areas of study include Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering (RF and antenna helpful) experience.
- Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.
Antenna, RF, PCB
DoD, defense experience
Security Clearance Required: Secret
Visa Candidate Considered: No
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Advanced degree in Engineering and/or Management
- Deep experience in Electrical and/or Mechanical Engineering and prior work experience within the Defense industry
- Experience and demonstrated competence in technical leadership (project engineer or other technical lead) for large complex programs
- Experience managing the engineering content of large DoD proposals and/or new business pursuits
- Experience in system level development, requirements definition, analysis, integration and risk mitigation for large communications systems
- Deep experience with Earned Value management (EVMS), metrics, and data driven decisions
- Demonstrated problem solving and technical/programmatic judgment
- Strong team player with experience managing highly technical teams
- Strong sense of ownership
- Ability to communicate confidently and concisely to both engineers and non-engineers
- Proven ability to translate the vision/strategy into clear priorities and direction
- Track record of being highly collaborative with a proven ability to quickly establish trust and credibility among peers and customers
- Experience navigating matrix organizations to identify key stakeholders and create efficiencies in related efforts
- Experience leading development and production of wireless communication systems and associated building blocks (e.g. antennas, RF electronics, mechanical design, CCA/PCB design, interconnect, Mechanical and Electrical CAD) for line of sight and satellite applications
- Experience developing and/or leading embedded software engineering projects
- Experience developing and/or leading analog and digital hardware projects
- Experience leading cross functional discipline engineering teams
- Experience providing compelling technological briefings to executive level stakeholders
- Experience managing multiple layers of management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with customers and teammates
