Program Engineering Manager

Job Summary

The Program Engineering Manager will be responsible for program technical leadership, planning, executing, and managing all engineering efforts within their programs. They will monitor and drive engineering cost and schedule performance, while ensuring program technical objectives are met.

This role will support multiple programs, including proposal activities, research projects, development programs, and/or production programs. The successful applicant will bring a strong RF design, production, and systems engineering background.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and production of custom digital and RF systems designs
• Work with Principal Investigators to advance overall technical skills and develop R&D expertise in the forefront of compact phased array and digital signal processing systems
• Be the engineering focal point for all activity within their programs, including strategic planning, bid and proposal support for engineering content, engineering strategy and integrated plans on programs, engineering staffing, issue reporting, and risk and opportunity management
• Provide overall project technical execution leadership, planning, executing, and managing all engineering efforts within the project
• Partner and collaborate with program managers, Team Leads, subcontractors, customers, and factories to ensure program goals, requirements, and needs are understood and achieved
• Develop and monitor project plans and execution to ensure technical and work scope requirements, schedule, and budget are well defined and maintained
• Effectively communicate with clear, concise messaging to teams and leadership

Key Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret clearance, ability to obtain TS/SCI and SAP clearances. Must be a sole US citizen
• Bachelor's Degree in engineering or a similar field
• 10 years' engineering experience encompassing all or most of the following skills:
• Microwave/RF system, subsystem, and component analysis, design, prototyping, and integration
• Hands-on design experience with electromagnetic simulation and modeling tools such as HFSS, CST, ADS, Genesys, and/or AWR
• Designing, testing, and integrating Electronically Steered Antennas (ESAs) or other multi-channel integrated RF systems for beam steering or direction-finding systems
• Implementing highly integrated systems with high-speed data converters (GHz+), RF Systems on Chip, or Direct Sampling techniques
• Technical writing for proposals, white papers, test plans, and reports
• Prior experience as a Cost Account Manager (CAM) working in an Earned Value Management System (EVMS)
• Experience supporting new design bring-up
• Experience bringing new technologies to production with demonstrated ability to systematically determine root cause for problems
• Experience interfacing with manufacturers and suppliers across the field to produce an RF System
• Ability to coordinate technical project performance with program leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in engineering or a similar field
• Prior experience in a product development environment; able to look beyond the immediate need to produce the right product for a larger customer set
• 5 years' experience as a Program Engineering Manager (PEM), Technical Project Manager, or as a Program Manager (PM)
• Prior experience as a Cost Account Manager (CAM) working in an Earned Value Management System (EVMS)
• Designing RF/microwave Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) and Card Carrier Assemblies (CCA)
• Designing RF/microwave features including frequency conversion, automatic gain control, custom amplification circuits, matching networks, and filters
• Experience integrating high frequency electronics into packages using CCAs and/or chip and wire technology
• Experience using MATLAB for modeling, analysis, and design of free space RF links, EBS patterns, DSP, or related subject matter
• Creating and/or working with RF/microwave link budgets to drive system requirements
• Working with Software Defined Radios (SDR), including utilizing them in RF system cascades and writing software for them
• ECAD design experience using software suites such as Mentor Xpedition and PADS, Cadance Virtuoso and Allegro, and Altium Designer
• Testing using standard EE and RF/microwave equipment such as vector network analyzers, power meters, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, noise sources, multimeter, and signal sources
• Familiarity with the setup and operation of military communication and EW equipment
• Prior experience developing RF products or RF ASICs
• Experience leading teams (including subcontractors) across multiple remote sites
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting technical research to large audiences

Benefits: Live an Extraordinary Life

We care about your well-being, not just on the job. Battelle offers comprehensive and competitive benefits to help you live your best life.

• Balance life through a compressed work schedule: Most of our team follows a flexible, compressed work schedule that allows for every other Friday off—giving you a dedicated day to accomplish things in your personal life without using vacation time.
• Take time to recharge: You get paid time off to support work-life balance and keep motivated.
• Prioritize wellness: Stay healthy with medical, dental, and vision coverage with wellness incentives and benefits plus a variety of optional supplemental benefits.
• Better together: Coverage for partners, gender-affirming care, and health support, and family formation support.
• Build your financial future: Build financial stability with an industry-leading 401(k) retirement savings plan. For most employees, we put in 5 percent whether you contribute or not, and match your contributions on top of that.
• Advance your education: Tuition assistance is available to pursue higher education.
• Flexible work arrangements: You have options for where you work and when you work.

A Work Environment Where You Succeed

For brilliant minds in science, technology, engineering, and business operations, Battelle is the place to do the greatest good by solving humanity's most pressing challenges and creating a safer, healthier, and more secure world.

You will have the opportunity to thrive in a culture that inspires you to:

• Apply your talent to challenging and meaningful projects
• Receive select funding to pursue ideas in scientific and technological discovery
• Collaborate with world-class experts in an inclusive environment
• Nurture and develop the next generation of scientific leaders
• Give back to and improve our communities

Vaccinations & Safety Protocols

Battelle may require employees, based on job duties, work location, and/or its clients' requirements to follow certain safety protocols and to be vaccinated against a variety of viruses, bacteria, and diseases as a condition of employment and continued employment and to provide documentation that they are fully vaccinated. If applicable, Battelle will provide reasonable accommodations based on a qualified disability or medical condition through the Americans with Disabilities Act or the Rehabilitation Act or for a sincerely held religious belief under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and related state laws).

Battelle is an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment and opportunities for advancement, compensation, training, and growth according to individual merit, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, genetic information, disability, veteran-status veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable Federal, state, or local law. Our goal is for each staff member to have the opportunity to grow to the limits of their abilities and to achieve personal and organizational objectives. We will support positive programs for equal treatment of all staff and full utilization of all qualified employees at all levels within Battelle.