In addition to the responsibilities of a Principal Engineer the Electrical Engineering Supervisor will lead, oversee, and manage a team of engineers, technicians, and/or designers, as assigned to the electrical team, in the design, development, testing, and support of electrical systems, projects, or tasks. The engineering supervisor will report directly to the Manager of Electrical Engineering.
Key Responsibilities
- Safety Leadership:
- Be a safety leader for your team and ensure that each person leaves in the condition they came in.
- Ensure all safety trainings are completed on time.
- Project Execution:
- Responsible for all engineering products, in your area of responsibility, produced by the electrical engineering team.
- Provide project oversight to projects being worked by the team both internal and external.
- Engineering Management:
- Lead efforts, including electrical engineering and associated instrumentation development across multiple programs.
- Set appropriate team expectations for completion of goals.
- Ensure accountability of task and goal completion.
- Manage engineering processes to ensure that quality, schedule and cost performance goals are achieved on all programs.
- Perform supervisory and administrative duties including resource management, employee development, safety, performance evaluations, statusing, progressing work, assist with hiring, honoring labor contracts, and employee time verification.
- Training and Development:
- Provide technical training, guidance and leadership to assigned personnel.
- Establish and maintain effective work procedures and instructions for engineering processes.
- Provide onboarding and mentor plans for new engineers entering the team.
- Team Collaboration and Communication:
- Ensure proper communication among the team and with other groups both internal and external.
- Facilitate communication between Engineers and Designers to ensure successful engineering and design processes.
- Interface with and support Design, Engineering, Program Office, Systems Integration and Concept Design Development, Change Management, Estimating, Contracts, Materials, Planning, Manufacturing, Navy and other customer organizations as required.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Ensure proper up to date process documentation for all electrical engineering processes.
- Focus on Lean Six Sigma principles to both remove waste and variation from processes.
- Create plans for recurring review of processes for areas of improvement and conduct and projects to improve efficiency, reduce cost, and reduce cycle times.