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Who we are:

Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments.  We are an R&D firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems.

About this role:

Do you thrive in innovative, design-driven environments with a high level of both accountability and trust? Are you passionate about delivering integrated hardware and system level solutions with the right amount of engineering rigor? Are you seeking a leadership role where you can take initiative? If so - we want to hear from you!

As the Fuse Systems Engineering Manager you will have a pivotal role providing both administrative and technical guidance and leadership to the mechanical, electrical, systems engineering, industrial design, and production teams. This guidance ranges from requirements definition and execution of design intent and includes meeting all appropriate mil standards and developing validation and verification (V&V) procedures to ensure proper function of systems and designs. The Fuse HW & Systems Manager also provides a bridge between the PMO and engineering team for project and program goals and milestones as they relate to tasking.

Warfighter-focused design and development is at the heart of Fuse processes. Throughout Fuse development our experienced team applies the best practices of commercial design-think, coupled to the DoD systems engineering framework. The coupling of commercially proven design with rigorous systems engineering gives Fuse an ability to rapidly design, develop and field solutions well inside of typical military design cycles. With an Agile approach to development (for both software and hardware) Fuse rapidly innovates, putting creative concepts into action, and refining those concepts through hands on test, user evaluation, and iteration.

What you'll do:

• Lead Systems, Mechanical and Electrical engineering aspects of User focused engineering and design process
• Provide technical guidance and review to SYS engineering teams
• Coordinate with other discipline Managers and Principals to provide unified guidance and tasking across the company to ensure strategic goals are met
• Conduct performance evaluations and mentor team on professional development, goal setting and career advancement
• Project Planning and Execution:
• Interface with PMO and Leadership teams for applicable inputs on technical proposals, ROMs, WBS's, hours and tasking estimates for projects in all phases of development
• Provide support to PMO on IMS/WBS development as well as resource allocation across known and projected tasking
• Provide input into yearly engineering budget planning activities for Hardware and Systems engineering as well as Production interests
• Directly supervise production staff and ensure that quality and delivery metrics are met
• Provide guidance and review on development of all production work instructions and test procedures
• Ensure that all production processes are followed - work instructions, inventory tracking/inspections, production schedule updates, traceability, etc.
• Enforce industry standard quality practices throughout production environment (FOD, ESD, Tool Control, etc.)
• Lead quality certification effort from a production and HW/SYS engineering perspective
• Ensure that production infrastructure meets the needs of the team both current and future (workspace, electrical outlets, tooling, etc.)
• Represent Hardware and Systems engineering interests at customer facing interactions (PMR, SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.)
• Participate in, or coordinate team member's participation in, customer site visits throughout project lifecycle from information gathering through integration events and post-delivery support