Director of Advanced Lasers

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Senior manager of team of highly skilled optical, electrical, mechanical and software engineers, program managers and operations staff who develop advanced laser systems for military applications.
• Provide the team with technical, programmatic and business leadership.
• Collaborate with senior leadership on business strategy and capture efforts.
• Serve as the primary customer interface during program capture and provide support as the team’s senior manager during program execution.
• Collaborate with functional managers across EP&T sites and senior management on staffing and hiring.
• Support the development of EP&T-wide and site-specific annual operating plan.
• Manage the site’s expenses to within plan.
• Oversight of facility management.
• Support for environmental health and safety, shipping, receiving, quality, and inventory control led by EP&Ts Business Operations and Quality leads.

Education & Experience

• Masters or Ph.D. in optics, physics, applied physics or electrical engineering.
• 15+ years of relevant experience in combination of education and work.
• 7+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communicating, organizing and motivating people.
• Must have experience leading highly technical, multi-discipline team in development of advanced laser systems or other closely related technical developments.
• Must have experience selling new programs and working collaboratively with senior management.
• Experience must include ownership of key technical responsibilities, overall program management and managing customer interface.
• Must have experience working within business with CAS-compliant accounting is preferred.

Skills & Other Requirements

• Required skills: technical including system engineering, people management, customer management, business skills, Deep technical knowledge of laser systems or closely related technology.
• Strong analytic decision-maker with problem-solving skills, able to handle unforeseen issues.
• Able to collaborate with highly skilled and opinionated staff.
• Able to establish objectives and work plans, delegates assignments to subordinate.
• Able to develop new technical concepts and sell new programs to customers.
• Able to digest market and product intel to collaboratively develop business strategy with senior management.
• Personable working style with a “can-do” attitude.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Deep familiarity with diode-pumped solid-state lasers and/or pulsed fiber lasers.
• Prior P&L responsibility.
• Familiarity with CAS accounting standards and CAS-compliant, DoD-serving, cost-reimbursable businesses.
• Other preferred experiences include facilities management, inventory management, EH&S compliance, AS9100 quality standards, and the IFS ERP system.