We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Hardware Engineering Leader to focus on all aspects of Hardware Engineering program performance within the PS business area. This highly visible position is responsible for ensuring hardware engineering processes are being executed to ensure program execution success. Key aspects of this role are partnering with other PS Hardware Engineering Managers and the PS HW Engineering Director to assess overall health and performance of the Hardware Engineering discipline within PS, identifying opportunities for improvement, ensuring application of core engineering processes, assessing training and talent development, and overall program performance. You will lead a large highly skilled organization through a transformation embracing model-based engineering and digital engineering aligning with the overarching BAE Systems Engineering organization's direction. Key Responsibilities • Program Execution Oversight: Ensure program cost and schedule goals and engineering performance commitments are established, executed and continuously evaluated to meet both short and long-term program execution plans with key milestones met on time at/below baseline cost. • Process Improvement: Drive continuous process improvement initiatives to increase efficiency, meet cost reduction objectives, support execution, and promote agility. • Leadership & Team Development: Assist other hardware leaders in the coordination of growing a best-in-class team of hardware engineers, fostering engineering and operational excellence through best practices, modern hardware development methodologies (e.g., DFMEA, Design for Manufacturing, test-driven development), metrics, and continuous learning. • Technology Leadership: Understand industry trends and best practices to ensure BAE Systems develops and maintains technical differentiators. Provide technical leadership and champion the adoption of modern systems development technologies (MBSE, Cloud computing, etc.). • Strategic Planning & Execution: Support the execution of established goals and standards of performance, budgets, and staffing plans are being executed to meet both short and long-term strategic roadmap activities/tasks. • Project Support: Support proposal development, reviews, and project assessments. Monitor and influence product development throughout the lifecycle. Review and approve all tailoring of discipline-specific development plans to ensure they meet project scale and cost/schedule commitments.