Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and oversight for all engineering activities related to advanced weapon systems.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams to ensure alignment between engineering execution, customer objectives, and program milestones.
• Manage and direct daily program execution to meet technical, cost, and schedule performance requirements.
• Serve as the primary interface for internal and external stakeholders, including government customers, subcontractors, and senior leadership.
• Represent the program and technical team during customer reviews, technical interchange meetings, and senior-level briefings.
• Develop and communicate the technical vision and roadmap to guide program success.
• Support and participate in proposal development, contract negotiations, and acquisition planning activities.
• Allocate and control engineering and program budgets for labor, materials, and services; provide regular status reporting to leadership.
• Identify and mitigate technical and programmatic risks, implementing proactive corrective actions as required.
• Partner with Contracts Administration to ensure compliance with all contractual, technical, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure program execution complies with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR/DFAR) and other relevant DoD policies.
• Provide mentorship and direction to engineering staff, promoting collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Manage technical priorities, backlog, and resource planning to ensure alignment with program goals.
• Drive program closeout activities, ensuring all deliverables and documentation are completed accurately and on time.
• Apply strong systems engineering principles, including requirements decomposition, interface control, and verification/validation planning.
• Leverage Agile development processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance collaboration and efficiency.
• Support and uphold MTSI’s mission, values, and culture in all aspects of program execution.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in aerospace or defense engineering, with significant time spent on DoD weapons or advanced systems programs.
• Proven success leading complex technical programs or engineering teams through the full program lifecycle (concept, design, test, production, and sustainment).
• Strong understanding of systems engineering, integration, and test processes.
• Demonstrated ability to manage manpower planning, technical performance, schedules, and budgets.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology, program management tools, and engineering processes.
• Familiarity with FAR, DFAR, RFPs, CDRLs, SOWs, ICDs, and related acquisition documentation.
• Experience supporting proposal development, cost estimation, and basis-of-estimate (BOE) generation.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Program Management certification (e.g., PMP, APDP) preferred.
• Experience with DoDI 5000.02, Information Assurance, and Program Protection Planning (PPP) desired.

Education

• A Business degree may be acceptable if accompanied by at least 3 years of direct experience working on DoD engineering or technical programs.

Clearance Requirements

• Active TS/SCI security clearance required.