Sentinel - Command Systems Test Engineering Manager 2 (19166)

About the role

This position will be located in Roy, UT and will support the Sentinel program. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

Responsibilities

• Develop customer contractual needs and requirements into test solutions that acknowledges technical schedule and cost constraints.
• Develop and direct preparation and execution of comprehensive test plans, procedures and schedules.
• Review and evaluate test requirements for completeness of test program.
• Coverage with Subject Matter Experts, Element Test teams, System Test teams, and other stakeholders to identify test objectives, test requirements, and risks that require test to mitigate.
• Supporting development of instrumentation requirements for Hardware in the Loop testing.
• Identify test support requirements and coordinate with Design & Integration team for budget and personnel needs.
• Oversee test activities in support or requirement verification and validation.
• Conduct daily briefing and approve test start for each test event.
• Approve Break of Configuration on the test floor.
• Conduct tabletop reviews and dry run test procedures with test team prior to execution.
• Cookordinate and conduct Technical and Safety Review Boards, and Test Readiness Reviews.
• Serve as a member of the Test Plan Working Group.
• Prepare Test Planning Team charters.
• Cookordinate with Quality organization for test support.
• Review and approve major test amendments.
• Utilize excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management.
• Work well in a team environment, collaborate with multiple engineering teams to define test objectives and requirements for test activities in a hardware in the loop lab.
• Set a Vision: Develop and communicate a clear vision for shaping, growing, and enabling the Command Systems business unit to meet and exceed its obligations.
• Build a High Performing Team: Partner with Functional leadership to build, maintain, and implement mentoring, succession, and development plans.
• Develop and execute staffing plans that achieve financial and programmatic strategic goals.
• Take Ownership: Drive execution across a diverse, multidisciplinary team, meeting cost, schedule, and technical performance metrics.
• Communicate progress, challenges, and plans with clarity and conciseness.
• Lead with Courage: Instill a culture of empowerment and accountability that enables the team to efficiently meet or exceed obligations.
• Build strong partnering relationships with customers, industry partners, and internal organizations and proliferate this partnership across the Command Systems BU.
• Respond to Challenges with Resilience: Perform proactive risk and opportunity management. Leverage strong partnerships to navigate setbacks and implement recovery plans that maintain forward momentum.
• Implement process improvements and strategic initiatives where necessary to maintain and increase execution velocity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree with 6 years of related experience.
• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance, current and within scope, with an ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need.
• At least 3 years of experience in system integration and test planning, procedure development, execution, and test reporting.
• Understanding of systems engineering principles and processes, requirements decomposition and allocation, design and analysis.

Skills

• Technical Leadership
• Lead and manage a diverse group of test engineers across multiple scrum teams.
• Design, develop, and implement testing methods and equipment.
• Ability to navigate requirements in DOORS.
• Model Based System Engineering with an understanding of DODAF and SysML.
• Compile data and define changes required in test equipment, test procedures, or new test requirements.
• Test planning, execution, reporting, and integration support.
• System integration, regression, and verification/validation testing.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, software engineers and lab users to ensure test requirements are met.
• Develop and release engineering documentation.
• Interface with software developers and systems engineers in support of verification.
• Prepare detailed test reports and support formal verification of the system.
• Product integration, regression, and verification testing including checkout in system test labs.
• Short and long term integration planning and execution of multiple concurrent baselines.
• Integrating subsystem functionality into system capabilities per design with an emphasis on system stability and performance.

People Leadership

• Provide technical oversight and mentorship to staff to ensure engineering projects in portfolio meet performance objectives.
• Responsible for direct functional management of staff and providing direction to the staff.
• Support organizational engineering initiatives.