DMS Project Engineering Manager

Duties & Responsibilities

• Functions as a Manager role providing leadership, direction, charging guidance, technical guidance, career development support to new and experienced professional staff.
• Establishes and maintains team vision, goals, and processes as they relate to technical resolution activities.
• Provides engineering proposal estimates, contract statement of work feedback, and manages corresponding budgets/cost accounts upon award for a significant number of concurrent contracts.
• Functions in an advisory or leadership role for a project/program and provide direction and guidance to less experienced professional staff or team of professional staff.
• With limited direction, exercises considerable latitude in determining technical objectives for the review, research, design, development, and/or solution to technical engineering problem(s).
• Helps project engineering team formulate plans, both short and long term, for solution(s) development, documentation, and implementation, as well as meeting compliance, reporting, and safety standards.
• Evaluates the integration of the engineering solutions within the overall engineering architectures of various platforms; and ensures that appropriate documentation, testing, maintenance, and engineering updates are completed.
• Communicates with engineering professionals, solution users, and management throughout the solution development cycle.
• Represents the company as a prime technical contact on various contracts and/or projects.
• Interacts with senior external personnel on technical matters requiring coordination between the organizations and participates in the development of new or expansion of existing business.
• Determines technical objectives for solution(s) to advanced technical engineering problems.
• Represents the organization as a prime technical contact within and engineering team for assigned project(s)/program(s).
• Formulates plans and guides the development and implementation of engineering solution(s) including deployment, resource requirements, testing, documentation, integration and compliance and safety.
• Plans and coordinates the maintenance of engineering solutions including, documentation, reporting, publishing, and making technical and other presentations to ensure viability of the solution(s) in an evolving environment.
• Plans for future applications of solutions based on new developments in engineering technology.
• Participates in or may lead the development of new or expansion of existing business opportunities.
• Maintains the strict confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelors, Masters or PhD in engineering or a related technical field as well as eleven or more years of progressively complex engineering experience.
• May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
• Demonstrates a detailed and extensive technical expertise and application of engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice with the ability to organize, plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate workloads to meet established deadlines or milestones with some experience in project leadership.
• Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment.
• Must have strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to effectively interface with other departments, customers, government representatives, and/or professionals.
• The capability of representing the organization as a prime technical contact; and the ability to provide leadership and guidance to less experienced professionals.
• Absolutely must be customer focused and able to work on a self- initiated basis or in a team environment and able to work extended hours and travel as required.
• A Professional Engineering License, original work(s) published in professional engineering journals, invited to present one or more original works to an engineering symposium, and invited and/or participated on an engineering review panel are desirable.
• Ability to obtain and maintain DoD Security Clearance is required.