Job Description

Job Description

Are you an Engineering Manager with 7 to 12+ years of experience looking for the next step to grow your career? Does a career that stretches your imagination and pushes the bounds of technical possibilities excite you?  Seeking to surround yourself with innovation and opportunities to be part of a collaborative design team with common visions?  Come experience our passion in developing leading technologies and equipment to protect our defense interests on all fronts.  “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®” is our guiding mission, and we’re looking for engineers who thrive on developing first-in-the-field technologies and achieving excellence at every turn.

About BAE Systems
Our employees work on the world’s most advanced electronic and optical systems. Spanning air, land, sea, and space, we are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our differences, we’re innovating for the future. And you can, too.

At BAE Systems, we promote a strong, collaborative culture and provide our employees with the tools, skills and training they need to succeed and grow. We are all about trust, camaraderie, and a shared ambition to lead the world in defense technologies and national security services. When you join our engineering group, you will be an integrated team member collaborating with Systems, Software, and Hardware engineers in one or more of the phases of the hardware design cycle.

We offer a flexible work environment and 9/80 work schedule. Our company is part of the community and driven to improve our future and protect our freedom.

Job Description:
In Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions, we provide next-generation threat detection and countermeasure solutions to provide unparalleled full spectrum electronic warfare capabilities to enhance mission survivability.

BAE Systems is seeking an experienced and energetic Program Engineering Manager (PEM) to contribute to our established and rapidly expanding engineering team in the CEMA Business Area. We are looking for a PEM who can coordinate and manage the engineering activities and is interested in a leadership role in a growing Product Line. 

Responsibilities:

• Serve as engineering focal point for all activity within the projects including bid and proposal support for engineering content, engineering staffing, issue reporting, and risk and opportunity management
• Project execution leadership to technical team; plan, execute, and manage all engineering efforts within the project. This includes tailoring company processes and procedures to execute research programs
• Partner and collaborate with program managers, functional engineering managers, subcontractors, and customers, and factories to ensure program goals, requirements, and needs are understood and achieved
• Monitor project plans and execution to ensure technical and work scope requirements, schedule, and budget are well defined and maintained
• Effectively communicate with clear, concise messaging to teams and leadership

About BAE Systems Electronic Systems

BAE Systems, Inc. is a defense, aerospace, and security company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, with more than 40,000 employees worldwide. We serve, supply, and protect those who protect us. As one of the most geographically diverse international defense companies, we deliver a full range of products and services spanning air, land, maritime, space, and cyber, including advanced electronics, intelligence solutions, and dedicated customer support.

Our culture is performance-driven and values-led, built on curiosity, creativity, and collaboration. Purpose isn't a tagline here. It's what drives us. We're developing breakthrough technologies that defend national security and make a lasting impact on our communities and our planet. When you join BAE Systems, you're not just building a career. You're contributing to a mission that truly matters.

This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.

Required Skills and Education

• Active Secret Security clearance
• Bachelors degree in an engineering discipline, and at least six years of experience in engineering development of complex electronic systems
• Experience leading diverse multi-disciplinary teams in the solution of complex technical problems
• Experience with hardware development projects in a defense environment including organizational design, planning, estimating, design management, and product verification
• Experience using Design to Cost (DTC) methods; leading to technical solutions that meet affordability and producibility requirements

Preferred Skills and Education

• Earned Value Management System (EVMS) and cost account management (CAM) experience
• Familiarity with development of EO/IR products for military applications (lasers, cameras, sensors, pointers)

Typical Education and Experience

Typically a Bachelor's Degree and 8 years work experience or equivalent experience