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Business Unit Chief Engineer
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AeroVironment, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale, FL (In Person)
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Job Description Help for Job Description. Opens a new window. Worker Type Regular Job Description Summary The Business Unit Chief Engineer (BUCE) is the overall technical execution authority for the Electronic Warfare product line. The BUCE is accountable for all technical aspects of the BU's products and leads a team of engineers to develop, launch, and sustain products throughout the total product lifecycle. The BUCE works with Product Line Managers, Senior Engineers, Customers, and Leadership to help develop concepts of operations which feed into product roadmaps to meet business objectives. The BUCE chairs technical reviews and drives technical excellence with the EW engineering groups. Position Responsibilities
- Personifies the AV pillar of "Innovation".
- As the EW Engineering Authority, oversee all development and product sustainment activities within the EW product line.
- Help drive technical response for business proposals in collaboration with Product Line Managers.
- Leads the technical team that will fulfill program technical, schedule and cost requirements and drives process improvements.
- Supports the creation of product technical roadmaps by collaborating with Product Line Managers, Senior Engineering Managers, Customers, and Division Leadership.
- Chairs technical reviews and supervises product documentation and engineering change requests/orders.
- Collaborates with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Quality to ensure technical specifications, as designed, are managed/controlled and flow through the entire value chain.
- Supports the development of plans for product IRAD and sustaining projects through proper work decomposition and skills assignment to project work tasks.
- Manages development and approval of engineering estimates and drives to a consistent approach for bases of estimates.
- Develops and mentors high-performing engineering teams.
- Own engineering budgets, forecast, and IRAD execution.
- Leads multi-discipline engineering activities and mentors engineers to improve technical and leadership skills.
- Partners with functional leaders to drive process improvements throughout the engineering development processes.
- Responsible for engineering leadership and direct performance management of a group of Senior Engineering Managers.
- Leads root cause investigations and rolls out corrective actions (RCCA).
- Time allowing, is a technical contributor to engineering efforts without their core expertise/disciplines.
- Other duties as assigned.