Responsibilities
- 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
You Must Have
- Bachelor's 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 . Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance (some positions require additional DOE designations).
We Value
- 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
FMT2021
30+ days ago