Our client, a leader in the manufacturiong of autonomous aircraft, is seeking a Chief Engineer for their Foothill Ranch location. Bachelors in engineering required and a Masters is highly preffered. Must have working knowledge with flight science, systems integration with aircrafts and exellent project management skills. This position is fully onsite and you will be responsible for overseing multiple divisions. Must have people management skills along with excellent technical leading skills.

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location: Foothill Ranch, California
job type: Permanent
salary: $160,000 - 195,000 per year
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

• Program Capture and Product Engineering Leadership.
• Customer interface to develop a valid requirement, CONOPS and employment concept.
• Best value product conceptual/predesign creation to meet the customer needs. This will require the identification of Associate Contractors, and any external interfaces.
• Establish system requirements.
• Conduct functional decomposition of the system to establish subsystem functionality and internal interfaces (hardware and software), external interfaces must be included as well.
• Establish reliability development and qualification strategy/definition to include delta and re-qualification.
• Subsystem ownership determination, based upon maturity, characterization level, performance, and cost. Including subsystem trades will suppliers to assure design is clearly manageable from cost, schedule, and technical performance levels. Also included are necessary subsystem characterization and margin assessments.
• Establish design characterization and margin strategies, to assure flight test and qualification first pass success.
• Establish the system simulation and analysis development and validation plan.
• Create a system simulation plan, establish the software development and verification environment plan.
• Direct the development of a complete program plan that integrates all disciplines, including operation, and logistics. Iterations to include the trades necessary to maintain overall, and supplier targeted costs. Also includes the entry and exit criteria for the major program reviews to include SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, FCA/PCA, and PRR (production readiness reviews) Includes early Safety Board plan reviews to minimize downstream surprises.
• Use the above to direct the generation of a prime SOW and SOW with defined deliverables for each supplier. These to be integrated into contracting packages with required flow downs to sub-tier vendors.
• Act as technical interface to customer during proposal efforts and lead any oral presentation.
• Direct and manage the product development efforts to fully qualify including developmental test and evaluation, conduct the critical design review, and then perform operational testing and evaluation.
• Complete the product baseline record, and successfully conduct the production readiness review.
• Division technical leadership and mentorship

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 8 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors

• Electrical Engineering
• CAD
• System Engineer
• Systems Integration
• Flight Science
• GNC
  

  
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