Sr Mgr Systems Engineering

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Raytheon aspires to be the most admired defense and aerospace systems supplier through world-class people and technology. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, Raytheon employs 80,000 people world-wide and generated $21.9 billion in 2005 sales.




Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) is Raytheon's leader in mission systems integration. With a strong international and domestic customer base, including the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. armed forces, IDS provides integrated air and missile defense and naval and maritime war fighting solutions. Headquartered in Tewksbury, MA, IDS employs 13,000 people worldwide and generated $3.8 billion in 2005 revenue.



Bring your talent and skills to the

Systems Architecture Design and Integration Directorate (SADID). SADID is the central focus for Mission Systems Integration activities within IDS. More than 1000 employees of SADID provide requirement definition and design at the system, subsystem and component level. Supporting these activities is modeling and simulation, system effectiveness and operational analysis, radar systems design, algorithm development, tracking and discrimination.



This assignment is for work at the

TI3, LLC Joint Partnership facility in Huntsville, AL . The location is co-resident with our joint partner and Government customer.



This position is for a chief systems engineer to lead and direct a systems engineering team which will define the Integrated Air and Missile Defense and System of Systems (IAMD/SoS) architecture and requirements. The chief systems engineer will be a direct report to the TI3 Engineering Director, and will be expected to act as TI3 Engineering Director as the need arises. Specific duties will include:
- Lead, motivate, mentor and network positive TI3 relationships within the Air and Missile Defense Systems Engineering community.
- Develop a System Engineering Management Process that is of a non-typical system centric approach and lends itself to a broader system of systems domain
- Understand and apply the DoD mandated Net-Ready Key Performance Parameter to IAMD generation of SoS requirements
- Direct a joint venture team of systems engineers to conduct performance analyses and trade studies for one or more IAMD systems


- Perform administrative supervision for 6 to 10 Raytheon systems engineers on the integrated team






Basic Qualifications


- At least 15 years experience in Air and Missile Defense (AMD) systems engineering, particularly in developing requirements, conducting performance analyses and preparing trade studies, performing functional allocation.
- Thorough understanding of JCIDS 5000 development acquisition process to include DoD and Army system development practices such as decision review sequence, entrance and exit criteria, software development practices, and test and evaluation requirements.
- Thorough understanding and experience with industry standard systems engineering processes and practices including DoDAF methodology and artifacts.
- Experience leading system engineering teams.
- Knowledge of existing Army AMD system programs such as PATRIOT, SLAMRAAM, JLENS and MEADS.
- Specific expertise on current DoD 5000 and JCIDS processes and their strengths and weaknesses, and current practices.
- Operational experience in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and OIF lessons learned, especially in communications connectivity.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Top secret or higher clearance.



Desired skills
- Understand DoD Net Ready to IAMD.



Required education

BS in ME, EE, Physics or related technical discipline, MS in engineering is preferred.




Special work requirements

1. Frequent CONUS business travel is expected.

2. Candidate will be required to sign and comply with an Organization Conflict of Interest (OCI) agreement that prevents TI3 employees from contributing (e.g. capture team/proposal team) for PEO M&S new business capture for two years after leaving TI3. The OCI does not prevent individuals from working on awarded PEO M&S contracts after leaving TI3.



Raytheon is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veterans status, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.

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