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Director of Hardware Engineering - Broadband Communication Systems (BCS)
Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited
🇨🇦 Canada | 🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Manager or above
5 days ago
$200,000 – $250,000 / year
- Secret Clearance
- CAD
5 days ago
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Ideal Candidate:
- Lead a hardware engineering group Antenna, RF, PCB, Mechanical or electrical.
- Hire, train, retain, and grow to meet program needs.
- Lead the group technically (technically savvy to review proposals and such from the team, products).
- Leading and reviewing proposals.
- Overseeing and leading hardware engineering from a schedule/program perspective.
- Prepare technical roadmap and help to execute that
- Engage to ensure tools for the org are appropriate over time, to stay current.
- Create vision, strategy, and execute against the plan to help build a best-in-class Engineering team
- Coordinate all hardware engineering support (personnel, lab resources, tools) required to perform on all programs and product developments within the business area.
- Closely track engineering demand and ensure the team is right-sized, properly skilled, and equipped.
- Direct engineering program technical, schedule and cost performance for projects with Hardware Engineering scope to include proposal reviews and approval and engineering program reviews and review/oversight of key technical decisions
- Provide mentorship and growth opportunities for engineering and management staff within the organization
- Build a platform for creativity and engineering innovation that is closely aligned and informed by business strategy and technology/product roadmaps
- Provide thought leadership to define the next generation systems
- Hire, attract, retain, and grow top talent, creating a cohesive culture that fosters innovation, execution, transparency, and collaboration
- Ensure allocation of resources is aligned with business priorities and identify solutions for the optimal utilization of resources
- Support execution and performance to the Sector Annual Operating Plan
- Serve as a hands-on engineering leader, who easily gains the respect of senior and junior engineers
- Contribute to new business pursuits by growing cross-functional relationships in new business development and across business areas
- Technical training of the organization and advancement of the state-of-the-art technology through appropriate industry interaction and continued education of technical staff
- Partner and work very closely with the Engineering Leadership staff, Business Development and Program Management to ensure strategy alignment, execution of projects and cross-team collaboration to jointly achieve the sector objectives
- Approve technical solutions for programs and proposals within the business area
- Review and approve cost estimates and schedules for programs and proposals with Hardware Engineering scope
- Manage hardware engineering content on programs and IRADs to meet technical performance requirements, project budgets and schedules.
- 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.
- 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.
- Record of accomplishment 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.
Director of Hardware Engineering - Broadband Communication Systems (BCS) · Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited