Technical Manager

Honeywells Federal Manufacturing & Technologies business manages the U. S. Department of Energys Kansas City National Security Campus in Missouri and New Mexico, manufacturing sophisticated mechanical, electronic, and engineered-material components for our nations defense system. Honeywell is on the leading edge of supplying engineering and manufacturing expertise for our nations defense and national security. Visit kcnsc.doe.gov for more information about working for Honeywell at the Kansas City National Security Campus.

In this role, this people leader will plan, organize, coordinate, and manage the overall activities of a technical work unit or team consisting of engineers and/or other qualified individuals.

• Plan, organize, coordinate, and manage the overall activities of a diverse technical team consisting of engineers and scientists
• Champion initiatives to resolve critical processes and technological-related issues
• Cultivate career development of staff members through coaching, training, performance evaluations and challenging job assignments; maintain technical competence and leadership, and establish management succession
• Exhibit strong customer interface skills and responsiveness to meet customer needs
• Team and negotiate with multiple functional disciplines to achieve performance goals and business improvements
• Effectively communicate with all levels of KCNSC management and staff, design partners, and customers
• Develop and implement staffing plans, budget proposals, and equipment requirements consistent with anticipated workloads
• Provide oversight to ensure individual project accomplishments and overall work unit effectiveness is achieved relative to committed objectives
• Provide leadership for staff development, and hold staff accountable to meet personal and business objectives
• Work with peers on technology development, manufacturing improvements and resource sharing for the overall benefits of KCNSC
• Contribute to other efforts, such as: intrinsic verification and validation methods, inverse problems, reduced order models, failure modeling capabilities, multi-length scale capabilities, robust and high performing contact algorithms, highly scalable equation solvers, and/or code design options for next generation computer hardware
• Work within agile software development environment on code development for research and production applications

• Bachelors degree in engineering or appropriate technical field from an ABET accredited program.
• 7+ years of experience in engineering or other related technical activities.
• Ability to travel up to 20 of the time.
• Ability to work remote, hybrid, or on-site as directed by management and is determined by the needs of the business.
• Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this job
• United States Citizenship
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance (some positions require additional DOE designations).

• Advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or Materials Science
• Experience with structural dynamics, parallel computing environments with MPI and threads, and agile software development experience
• Six Sigma Black Belt or Lean Expert certification
• History of developing technical talent to handle diverse assignments with a bias for action
• Experience with the finite element method

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