Guidance Navigation and Control Engineering Talent Center Director na Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin · Huntsville, Estados Unidos Da América · Onsite
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- Escritório em Huntsville
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Space Engineering is embarking on an strategic organizational update, moving to a framework called Talent Centers, that establishes talent development and accountability as its primary focus. Talent development is critical to providing world leading engineering teams and solutions to our programs. This position is a pivotal part of our strategy to build on our existing work-force, building on the culture of engineering excellence in the Space engineering organization. The Engineering Talent Center is Seeking a motivated candidate to provide revolutionary leadership to the Guidance Navigation and Control Engineering Talent Center. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of building an organization that will take LM Space Engineering to the next level.
Reporting to the Vice President of the Missile, Spacecraft and Payloads Engineering Talent Center, the Guidance Navigation and Control Engineering Talent Center, at a top level, comprises the following for both Missiles and Spacecraft:
• GN&C SubSystems (Satellite)
• NG&C Systems (Missile)
• Algorithms / Control Design & Analysis
• GN&C / NG&C Hardware
• Dynamics & Control Analysis
• Target Tracking
• Rendezvous Proximity Operations and Docking
• Computer Vision/Image Processing
• Precision Pointing Systems
• Orbit Determination, GPS
• Modeling, Simulation and Analysis
As the Guidance Navigation and Control Engineering Talent Center Director, this Leader will shape the future of our Guidance Navigation and Control product strategies and our Guidance Navigation and Control Engineering Work-Force.
The primary responsibilities of this role are to focus on our people and build the Talent Center by:
• Collaborate with enterprise stakeholders to develop product strategies.
• Creating an organization that establishes talent development as a foundational objective.
• Identify sub-talents withing the Guidance Navigation and Control Engineering Talent Center in which to develop talents and technologies.
• Organizing talent development along with program support teams that combine to enable superior program support and talent development.
• Creating talent development networks that pair senior, more experienced personnel to work regularly in an interactive fashion with more junior personnel to force multiply their talent and knowledge to achieve program objectives and build a resilient talent pipeline.
• Leveraging the talent pipeline to decrease the environment of scarce availability of critical and fragile skill groups.
• Enabling the identification of digitally enabled enhancements to the engineering process and establishing a measured implementation plan for them.
• Establishing efficiency metrics for appropriate talent groups to identify areas of opportunity within engineering teams and monitor the effectiveness of new capability insertions.
• Creating an environment on continuous process improvement that balances technical, cost and schedule to provide improved LM Space financial performance.
• Building a leadership culture within the organization that is committed to building talent and is accountable for delivering on engineering commitments.
• Proactively partnering with LOBs, Ignite and Product Centers to understand engineering staffing needs and work to fill those needs on time.
• Establishing a method to provide engineering proposal inputs that enable LM Space growth goals. This includes
o Re-Use of BOEs that have been created with high quality.
o Creating competitive cost estimates that are, achievable and recognize continuous process improvement.
o Creation and re-use of proposal inputs that capture our technical solutions and communicate an LM value proposition consistent with the program’s win strategy.
Basic Qualifications
• Minimum 15 years of combined technical and leadership experience.
• Must have experience leading cross-functional teams who lead the design, development, production, sustainment and evolution of technical products.
• The successful candidate must demonstrate full spectrum leadership skills and behaviors and proven experience leading a cross-functional team of employees.
• Demonstrated ability to drive closure and resolve complex technical issues/challenges.
• Must be an excellent communicator, with experience presenting to executive leadership.
• You will need to be a US Citizen, and currently possess and be able to maintain a US DoD TOP SECRET clearance, with the ability to gain a TS/SCI Clearance, to support this government contract, as well as successfully pass a drug and background check, in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Desired skills
• Ability to establish a clear and effective vision for the talent center
• Execution-minded in a highly competitive marketplace
• Relevant experience as a leader of leaders.
• Demonstrate ability to work in a collaborative manner to organize, motivate and lead teams to arrive at solutions that support the goals and objectives of the organization and customer.
• Demonstrated ability to multitask and adapt to changing priorities.
• Project Leadership/Management Experience throughout the engineering life cycle: scoping, sizing, cost estimation, planning, scheduling, staffing, tracking.
• Experience in major program reviews including System Requirement Reviews, System Design Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, Manufacturing Readiness Review, Test Readiness Review, etc.
• Commitment to the development of others.
• Experience in manufacturing and production of space GNC products
• Preliminary Review / Engineering Review Board (PR/MRB) certification or experience.
• Component / Unit level manufacturing & testing experience.
PLEASE NOTE-Other important information:
• By applying to this role, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities, within Lockheed Martin, where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match.
• Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
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