Senior Director of Engineering

At Trident Systems, we believe that strong engineering principles are fundamental to driving innovation and solving complex problems. We promote a culture characterized by rigorous engineering practices and a commitment to continuous improvement. This is achieved by leveraging our organization's collective expertise through collaborative development processes, which include thorough design and peer reviews. We can deliver innovative, high-performance solutions that meet our customers' evolving requirements by integrating our specialized knowledge in aerospace electronic systems with appropriately scaled development methodologies.

We are a mission partner supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, and Civil space customers. We develop complex, radiation effects mitigated, designs that balance competing requirements in modern space programs, delivering cutting-edge solutions that enable our customers to achieve more in space.

Position Summary

The Senior Director of Engineering leads the Engineering function and staff matrixed between two business areas. The businesses span a diverse set of technologies including systems, hardware, software, and firmware development for space and terrestrial environments. This is a senior leadership role reporting directly to the President of Trident Systems that works closely with the senior leadership team to achieve business objectives. The Senior Director of Engineering is responsible for developing and leading strategic initiatives, satisfying program staffing demands (including business development and proposal support) with appropriate talent, driving execution to meet commitments, new business support, proposal estimates, process compliance, growing talent, and leading continuous improvement efforts.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Drive functional execution excellence across a portfolio of programs and technologies to meet technical, schedule, and cost commitments
• Forecast, plan, and lead staff hiring ensuring adequate resources to execute work
• Manage staffing of engineers to programs
• Support new business and proposal efforts including engineering approach, ensuring accurate engineering bid estimates, and participating in reviews
• Develop and execute strategic plans to ensure the function is able to support business objectives
• Responsible for maintaining process and standards adherence for the function
• Lead functional and leadership development for the Engineering team ensuring appropriate staff growth and development, availability of key skills, talent pipelines, and succession plans
• Establishment of functional metrics to track performance and inform data driven decision making
• Building a culture of continuous improvement using metrics and standard techniques to achieve measurable performance improvements
• Interface with customers and other external parties as needed to represent Trident and the Engineering function
• Drive designs for producibility and support Operations as needed in issue resolution and strategic initiatives
• Ability to support travel or off-site work, as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) in a relevant Engineering discipline
• 15+ years of experience in Engineering, with 5+ years in senior leadership roles
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering groups in complex electronics and software development
• Experience in the Aerospace and Defense business, with experience in Space Electronics preferred
• Extremely well-organized, ability to work multiple complex initiatives simultaneously
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including authoring presentations/briefs and presenting to large, technical audiences
• Demonstrated track record in an engineering leadership position, with the ability to build an effective team and promote a positive workplace environment.

Benefits

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to:

• Health benefits
  1. Medical
  2. Dental
  3. Vision
  4. Basic life with AD&D
  5. Short term disability
  6. Long term disability
  7. Ancillary (Voluntary life with AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital, and pet)
  8. Spending accounts (HSA, FSA, and DCFSA)
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• 401(k) (including automatic company contribution)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leaves (Parental, pregnancy, and military)
• Potential annual bonus

Trident Systems reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

Trident Systems is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact recruiting@tridsys.com.

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