Military Controls Executive Leader

Job Description

• Essential Responsibilities:
• Ongoing/recurring presence in K5 and or other similar cleared facilities for both employee and customer interface
• Provide leadership and technical direction for assigned organizational responsibilities, programs, and personnel
• Work collaboratively across product lines and across disciplines and organizations
• Promote technical excellence within own section and support groups through design/technical review participation, lessons learned awareness and application, DFR/DFSS, and technical innovation/growth fostering
• Establish and maintain relationships with required external and internal interfaces to ensure that customer requirements are understood and being achieved
• Establish / modify / monitor overall engineering program requirements, timing, and resources of section and support groups to meet / exceed business objectives and goals
• Effectively communicate technical and financial aspects of section activities vertically and horizontally in the organization
• Ensure positive actions are taken to encourage growth, technical development, and improved interpersonal skills
• Create robust engagement strategy and operating rhythms
• Ensure compliance initiatives and training requirements are implemented
• Implement initiatives to continuously improve responsiveness of the section / organization to customer / business needs

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Electrical or Aerospace Engineering from an accredited college or university
• 8 years of technical leadership experience
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US DoD security clearance

Desired Characteristics:

• Master’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering from an accredited university or college
• Prior experience with a focus on managing multiple technical programs and designing and developing new products related to solving product issues
• Experience in Controls Systems engineering
• Be a change agent capable of influencing at all organizational levels
• Strong business acumen and customer mindset
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills and proven ability to inspire excellence and stimulate change
• Strong ability to work in multi-business environment and develop    technology synergy and roadmap
• Strong demonstrated team-based skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to work across all functions / levels as part of a team
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Strong coaching expertise and success in collaborating across the business functions, other GE businesses, and the global teams

Additional Qualifications:

• Lean, process improvement experience

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

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