Director, Engineering Operations (IHO)

Job Title: Director, Engineering Operations Job Code1501 Job Location: Palm Bay, FL (onsite) Job Schedule: 9/80 Relocation: Available for qualified candidates The IMS Director, Engineering Operations, provides dually focused leadership over engineering operations and digital engineering for the IMS Segment.
The Director reports directly to the VP of Engineering for IMS.
Within the engineering operations focus, the Director coordinates with our divisional business leaders, engineering discipline leaders and Corporate Engineering Operations leadership to measure and analyze engineering productivity and quality, and define and drive continuous improvement strategies and plans.
The successful Director leverages industry best practices and prior experience across the segment to raise the bar of overall performance.
The Director leads engineering continuous improvement through L3Harris’ operational excellence program (E3 – excellence, everywhere, everyday.
) Within the digital engineering focus, the Director collaborates with sector engineering discipline leaders, sector Operations leaders and the corporate digital engineering lead, to drive IMS business goals and objectives.
The Director is responsible for planning & management of overall segment discipline tool standardization, and initiatives and digital roadmaps for design discipline leaders (SE, PE, SpE, SW, EE, ME) across the segment.
The Director will define and manage engineering design workflows and project plans, motivate others to effect progress and closure, and brief progress for an executive audience.
This Director stays aligned with overall business performance objectives and leads the Engineering organization in delivering value toward these ends via engineering operational excellence and digital engineering tools, capabilities and initiatives.
Primary Responsibilities Digital Engineering Transformation Develop objectives, roadmap, and plans to deliver capability and improve the digital design maturity inside IMS, striving for commonality and synergy across engineering in alignment with CHQ objectives Lead the IMS digital transformation initiatives such as including Product Lifecycle Management, Application Lifecycle Management, Software and FPGA DEVSECOPS, Model Based Systems Engineer, while helping each sector within IMS tailor implementations to their specific business needs.
Partner with IT, Finance, and Corporate Engineering and other segments, to develop a digital strategy and tools plan, which enables our objectives towards a fully integrated digital thread,.
Stay abreast of relevant industry developments, including new approaches, platforms, standards, and methodologies; develop and implement strategies to meet emerging technology trends.
Participate in industry boards and associations as a representative for L3Harris.
Tools Lead and coordinate the IMS representation on the corporate Cross Segment Engineering Discipline Team in development of standard tools Plan and establish common tools across the segment Engineering organization.
Metrics Coordinate sector discipline leads to define corporate-wide standard metrics for productivity and quality to maximize utility and business impact.
Drive implementation, use and reporting cadence of engineering metrics.
Track and understand performance versus goals.
Drive continuous improvement via preventative and corrective action.
Responsible for development of metrics and measures associated with tracking and improving the quality of the engineering products.
Ownership of IMS Engineering Scorecard including gathering, compiling, and preparing scorecard information for monthly Engineering Operations reviews.
Development Policies and Procedures Provide review and segment signoff of corporate-level Engineering policies and processes.
Provide high-level review and guidance for sector engineering processes.
Ensure knowledge sharing of best practices across the IMS segment and develop/monitor technical standards to ensure adherence to them.
Establish and deploy common tools and processes for the IMS Engineering organization Value Engineering Represent IMS engineering at e3 and Value Engineering meetings/discussions.
Set the engineering vision, develop and implement the roadmap for the E3 Program.
Develop and deploy goals and manage e3 actions in alignment with program goals and business objectives.
As part of the overall e3 process, track engineering metrics and productivities associated with work scope; lead implementation of continuous process and productivity improvement initiatives Develop, improve and deploy the e3 Engineering framework including the toolkit for Value Engineering, DFx, COPQ (Cost of poor quality), process improvement and other tools to help drive continuous improvement activities within the IMS engineering organization Staff Activities As a senior member of the IMS Engineering staff you may be asked act as delegate for segment VP of Engineering including at engineering operations functions and trade compliance meetings.
Serve as a hands-on engineering leader, who easily gains the respect of senior and junior engineers Lead segment level engineering awards, E-Week activities.
Share in staffing & talent development.
Temporary assignments to critical pursuits, proposals, or programs.
Qualifications & Skills Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field or equivalent with a minimum of 15 years of prior engineering experience OR Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior engineering experience Ability to obtain a U.
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security clearance, which requires US Citizenship 5+ years of Digital Engineering Transformation experience Preferred Qualifications Experience leading multi-site and remote functional teams Understanding of development and deployment of continuous improvement programs Experience providing compelling technological briefings to executive level stakeholders Proven ability to translate the vision/strategy into clear priorities and direction Confident leader with demonstrated ability to lead by influence Experience navigating matrix organizations; identify stakeholders and synergy among related efforts Able to work in a multi-level complex project schema—navigating a vague and broad space, to define plans and options, and align stakeholders across sites and various business units.
Track record of collaboration; can quickly establish trust & credibility among peers and customers Change agent with examples of leading transformations; comfortable challenging the status quo Ability to take calculated risks, achieve success or fail quickly, learn and move ahead Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously; strong organization and prioritization skills Analytical mindset experienced in defining metrics to drive improvement Display a strategic mindset; possess strong project planning, business/financial acumen, excellent judgment; have strong communications skills and high initiative/bias for action.
Understands IT infrastructure, tools jargon, application specific outputs and benefits in workflows