Manager, Mechanical Engineering 1

Manager, Mechanical Engineering

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do. L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Essential Functions

• Direct application of domain expertise on programs.
• Maintain domain competency and apply it through technical guidance, collaboration, or individual task execution on program activities.
• Define, maintain, and improve the function's lowest level development processes and best practices.
• Ensure staff are properly using best practices and the development processes on their assigned programs.
• Ensure quality of proposal materials / inputs and Estimates To Complete (ETCs).
• Resource management and planning.
• 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.
• Administration and management of employees.
• 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.
• Career development of employees.
• Take an active role in the professional development of each staff member.
• 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).

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline with minimum of 9 years combined experience in engineering and leadership.
• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline with minimum of 7 years combined experience in engineering and leadership.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior Mechanical Engineering and leadership experience.
• Experience with CAD modeling and analysis software.
• Working knowledge of mechanical design best practices, GD&T, high precision manufacturing processes, and common aerospace alloys.
• Prior experience conducting reviews of mechanical designs, analysis, and change notices.
• Experience with creating engineering estimates, plans, and BoE's.
• Experience of manpower planning, milestone scheduling, and related financial management.
• Proven experience of managing and working in an environment that is fast paced, demanding, with a focus on problem resolution and process improvement.
• Experience with total lifecycle of programs including proposals, bids, planning, assessing/managing risk, and execution.
• Prior experience collaborating effectively with other leadership functions across the organization including Operations, Quality, Program Management, and Business Development.
• Ability to obtain a US Security clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills/Experience

• Prior experience in engineering management
• Prior experience in aerospace and defense
• Experience with avionics packaging, high vacuum systems, IR sensor systems packaging, or cryocoolers
• Experience with Solidworks
• Experience with Root Cause Corrective Action tools and processes
• Outstanding communication (both verbal and written), collaboration, time management, presentation, and organization skills