N131 Multi-Disciplinary Resilient Communications Group Leader - Bedford, United States - MITRE

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Department Summary:

MITRE's Survivable Communications System Department, N131, is seeking a Group Leader to lead the Multi-Disciplinary Resilient Communications Group. The successful candidate will supervise, lead, and provide quality oversight of work. In addition, the candidate will be focused on staff development, technical expertise, delivery of high-quality technical products, and assist and grow the group's capability. The selected candidate will help evolve N131 Department and N130 Division outcomes, by actively working as part of the leadership team, to support and craft the organization's strategic direction, identify new opportunities and initiatives, and lead related activities. Candidates should have a track record of leading people, thinking, and acting innovatively, and collaborating across boundaries. The Group Leader position is critical to staff and department/division outcomes.

The Multi-Disciplinary Resilient Communications Group is made up of staff with multi-disciplinary communications systems skills, proficient in designing holistic communications systems, and leading multi-disciplinary MITRE teams of engineers to solve complex problems in the NC3 domain. The group possesses broad experience in overall communications system design, performance, and trade-space analysis. They ensure systems meet user requirements through implementation of end-to-end systems engineering practices across a program lifecycle. Due to the nature of the nuclear enterprise, as well as others, complex systems engineering applied to resilient communications will be a growth area for this group and will inform hiring and training activities for the near future.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Department and Staff Engagement – Direct supervisor (DS) for 6-8 assigned staff and interns, providing technical support, conducting regular performance and development conversations, staff advocacy and recognition, and communication with Project/Task Leads on performance. Serves as the main point of contact for new employee onboarding and as a resource to guide staff in navigating the MITRE organization and processes.

• Partnering with Project Leaders to identify appropriate project opportunities where staff can leverage skills they have and continue to develop new skills.
• Helping their staff craft impactful goals that will challenge them to focus on forward movement that has an impact.
• Working to ensure their staff contribute to and are accountable for customer outcomes, and maximize employee potential, motivation, and engagement.
• Ensuring that their staff are constantly involved in project work and learning opportunities that align with career aspirations and development plans.
• Soliciting and providing regular feedback to employee(s) to help them grow.
• Managing challenging interpersonal dynamics, and performance concerns amongst employees in their Group, their colleagues, and the project leaders they support.
• Being the first‐line supervisor and the primary point of contact on human resources matters for the employees in their Group (to include participating in the annual performance and compensation cycles for their employees by assessing performance and recommending salary adjustments and promotions).
• Assists Department Leadership team in workforce shaping, work program development, maintaining awareness of emerging technical issues and opportunities.
• Collaboration and Communications – Supports regular communication between staff and Project/Task Leaders, serves as a proactive liaison between staff and Department/upper management, seeks collaboration opportunities across portfolios and centers while facilitating an open sharing of program and/or technical area knowledge with other managers and staff.
• Develops and executes a strategy for the Group, to include the following:
• Help shape group and department work programs and capability investments.
• Work with the Department Leadership to forecast workforce levels and skillset demands then grows the group to fill those needs.
• Ensure technical quality of the group's work products.
• Serve on the Department Leadership team in executing its strategy.
• Represent the department and/or division in ad hoc efforts/events.
• Work closely with other organizations and identify domain specialists to provide technical mentorship for the staff across various technical skillset areas.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree STEM related field; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Active Secret Clearance and ability to acquire TS/SCI clearance
• Ability to coach, mentor, and advocate for all levels of staff
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to formulate group level and department-level goals, and the persistence to execute until those goals are achieved
• Desire to develop early career staff and navigate career options/paths at MITRE
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the department's strengths:
  • Systems Engineering expertise across program lifecycles including requirements definition, design trades, architecture, design allocation and synthesis, and verification and test
  • Communications and Signal Processing expertise from design and modelling to system level trades
  • Leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams on high profile, schedule compressed programs
  • Matlab, Simulink, IBM Rational DOORS, Cameo Enterprise Architecture
• Proven track record to try new things and achieve significant work program, sponsor or organizational outcomes.
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site

PreferredQualifications:

• An active TS/SCI clearance is desirable
• Satellite Communications Engineering (MILSTAR, AEHF, UHF, C, X, Ku and Ka)
• BLOS Communications Engineering (HF, VLF/LF)
• RF Comms and Networking
• Domain knowledge of nuclear command, control and communications (NC3) weapon system and NC3 Enterprise

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

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