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Leidos is seeking a highly motivated and tactical, Lead Systems Engineer / Program Manager (LSE/PM) with successful experience in the areas of technical program execution, Systems Engineering, and program execution.
Primary Responsibilities
Professional
- Responsible for program management, proposal development and Systems Engineering during execution.
- Oversees the design, development, documentation, testing and fielding of complex EW systems
Functional
- Plan, coordinate, and manage small, medium, and large-scale projects and programs.
- Integrate all functions and activities necessary to ensure the project/program meets client/customer requirements.
- Manage technical aspects, costs, and schedule of assigned tasks or functions.
- Make decisions at the project team-level and properly escalate issues that cannot be resolved in a timely fashion.
- Take programs through the Design Reviews, including SRR, PDR, and CDR
Create project management plans, set expectations, and ensure plans are driven by organizational procedures. - Ensure requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed, and approved per organizational/program standards.
- Ensure projects are delivered on-time, within budget, and remain in scope; monitor and track project dependencies. Maintain financial plans, track actuals vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, report monthly accruals.
- Create a work breakdown structure defining all activities required for project deliverables.
- Create/deliver high-quality, informative, written/verbal project communications, including weekly project status, dashboards, and updates.
Basic Qualifications:
- Demonstrated leadership of small multi-disciplinary technical teams and projects
- Experience successfully capturing and executing programs
- Experience writing technical whitepapers and proposals
- Experience in EW, SIGINT, and/or communications systems as a technical leader
- Current Secret Security Clearance or above. Ability to get Top Secret Clearance in the future.
- Bachelor's degree in a science or engineering field and 12 + years of prior relevant technical management experience
- U.S. citizen with an active Secret Collateral clearance and eligible for SCI access.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience in managing Department of Defense research efforts, including AFRL, DARPA, ONR, and similar customer organizations. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple simultaneous efforts while keeping efforts on schedule and on budget.
- Prior experience in leading successful business development campaigns. Demonstrated skills include the ability to effectively communicate with customers, understand their needs, and develop technical white papers and proposals.
- Master's degree in an engineering or science discipline with at least 10 years of prior relevant experience.
- U.S. citizen with active Top Secret/SCI clearance.
LInC
Electronic Warfare
Pay Range:
Pay Range $122,200.00 - $220,900.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
