Systems Engineering Manager jobs in Georgia

Universal Avionics continues to move the avionics industry forward with both the latest iterations of our flagship products as well as designing the next generation of technology to ensure easier management and safety of all phases of flight.

As a Systems Engineering Manager you will manage a team of Avionics Product Systems Engineers. Responsibilities include ensuring milestones, regulatory, and customer requirements are being satisfied for small to large, simple to complex avionics products throughout the life-cycle development and change activities. Provide varying levels of support and guidance to engineers having minimal to extensive levels of experience with avionics projects, which may require providing detailed instructions / direct supervision for work assignments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following, (some of which may be delegated to lead systems engineers when prudent and appropriate).

• Provide definition, oversight, and continuous improvement of UASC’s Systems Engineering development processes and associated standards.
• Drive recruiting, training, and team building efforts for Systems Engineers.
• Ensure system level architecture and product level regulation requirements are covered.
• Identify major systems tasks required for a project.
• Ensure accuracy of estimates to complete small to large, simple to complex avionics tasks.
• Provide ROM estimates for business proposals.
• Oversee and facilitate Systems Engineering activities within team projects, working groups, and design reviews.
• Maintain status and high-level knowledge of the milestone progress for all projects involving Systems Engineering.
• Mentor systems engineers and other personnel on systems engineering or company products.
• Perform performance appraisals for Systems Engineers.
• Possess an advanced knowledge of CFRs/FARs, ACs, TSOs, and MPS affecting systems requirements documentation and processes.
• Possess an advanced knowledge of aircraft systems, including applicable TSOs, MPS, etc.
• Promote research and development on emerging technologies and product concepts.

Ensure delegation of the following tasks is appropriate and satisfactorily performed by the assigned systems engineer.

• Development and/or revision of content for the functional description document, the system requirements data, the interface description document, design verification test procedures, and human factors test procedures.
• Hardware and software configuration control, verification, and validation.
• Accurate system requirements allocation and tracing to subsystem e.g., hardware software, database.
• Develop (or revise) content for the TSOA, Advisory Circular, or TSO compliance matrix reports, and compliance rationales.
• Critical review of relevant product documentation.
• Drive to resolution documentation review comments and findings.
• Systems bench testing, design verification testing, human factors testing, acceptance testing, problem report testing, and resolution of test discrepancies.
• Review and provide input to problem reports and/or software changes that include flight deck effects, operational impacts, and system safety analysis.

Additional duties, for assignment to systems engineering resources:

• Participation in product team meetings
• Provide progress reports for project milestones to senior systems engineers, managers, and program management.
• Address product support and field service technical questions.
• Review of product support installation manuals, operator’s manuals, and configuration manuals.
• Systems technical resource for hardware qualification testing.
• Author, investigate, and provide inputs to the problem report authors.
• Leadership and/or mentorship roles on projects.
• Presentations at industry meetings.
• Review of software and hardware requirements.
• Support DO-178 and DO-254 verification activities as required, including review of software requirements test plan, procedures, testing, structural coverage, verification results and reports.