Systems Engineering Manager

Who Are We?
Are you someone that likes new challenges? Do you want to explore new technologies and help solve some of the world’s most difficult problems, like air quality and safety solutions? At TSI, these opportunities are real. Our engineers work with industry-leading experts both internally and externally. We encourage and enable our engineers to get into the field with customers to better understand their issues and solve their problems. At TSI, you make a difference – every day.

Systems Engineering Manager at TSI
The Systems Engineering Manager leads TSI’s systems engineering organization and is responsible for the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of systems engineering across new product development (NPD) and major continuation projects. This is a working manager role, and includes management and individual contributor aspects. As a manager, the Systems Engineering Manager is responsible for developing systems improvement goals, setting systems engineering strategy and processes, leading and developing a team of direct report systems engineers, and representing systems engineering to senior management. In addition, the Systems Engineering Manager also performs the full scope of an individual Systems Engineer role, with overall technical responsibility for developing high-quality solutions to customer requirements on one or more projects.

As both a people and technical leader, this role is responsible for hiring, coaching, and retaining top systems engineering talent and for building the capability needed to scale the discipline. The Systems Engineering Manager demonstrates a thorough understanding of systems thinking applied to product development, with a broad working knowledge of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, firmware, software, reliability testing, verification, validation, and production. The role is a member of engineering project leadership teams, consisting of a systems engineer, project manager, and product/marketing manager, and must effectively communicate technical direction to senior management and across functional teams that span all engineering disciplines, marketing, sales, quality, supply chain, and operations.

What Will You Do?

In order to grow and build a successful career with TSI, you will be responsible for:

Management and Leadership Responsibilities:

• Refine and execute the systems engineering strategy, including the processes, methods, and tools used for requirements development, system architecture, and verification and validation, aligned with business and product goals.
• Lead continuous improvement of systems engineering processes, and ensure consistent application of phase-gate processes, regulatory requirements, and quality standards across projects.
• Directly manage a team of systems engineers; own hiring strategy, conduct regular 1:1s, set individual development plans, drive career growth conversations, manage personnel issues, and lead performance management processes for the team.
• Provide technical and people leadership to direct report systems engineers, including coaching on systems thinking, architecture decisions, tradeoff analysis, and communication with senior management.
• Represent the systems engineers to engineering management, communicate program status, risks, and tradeoffs, advocate for team resourcing and priorities, and ensure systems engineering perspectives are reflected in engineering and product decisions.
• Assign systems engineers to projects based on project needs, individual strengths, and development goals, and balance workload across the team.
• Build and maintain a strong systems engineering culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning, including engineering knowledge capture and transfer.
• Mentor systems engineers in best practices, by auditing programs led by other systems engineers, hosting systems engineering meetings, and developing guidance and procedure documents.
• Supervisor/people management – supervise the team of systems engineers.

• • Recruit, hire, and retain a high-performing team.
  • Define employee objectives, conduct performance reviews, provide feedback, and make recommendations regarding compensation, promotion, training, and discipline.
  • Coach and mentor direct reports, including delegation, feedback, and conflict resolution.
  • Define and execute required training programs to address industry, product, process, and technology training needs.
  • Develop organizational capabilities through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and succession planning.

Working Manager Responsibilities:

In addition to the management responsibilities above, perform the following Systems Engineering functions on one or more projects:

• Lead the development of the overall technical solution for new product development projects. This includes development of product requirements and a system architecture to achieve those product requirements. It also includes providing system guidance to engineers in various disciplines (mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software) and validating that the designs developed by the various disciplines integrate correctly and address the product requirements.
• Generate technical requirements based on customer requirements, technical tradeoffs (cost vs. function vs. time-to-market vs. quality), compliance, manufacturing, and service requirements. Work with the product manager to validate customer requirements based on the tradeoffs arising from them.
• Develop a system architecture capable of meeting the technical and product requirements. Consider partitioning of the project into modular subsystems and interfaces, tradeoffs of the proposed design, and reuse of modules.
• Provide high-level system context to the engineering (mechanical, electrical hardware, firmware, and desktop/cloud software) team members, and validate the output from these teams in the context of the project. Evaluate engineering alternatives, understand team capabilities, improve collaboration and interfaces, and reduce risks between the engineering disciplines.
• Gather, develop, and maintain the technical project schedule. Collaborate with the project manager to integrate the technical schedule with the overall schedule that includes non-engineering project members.
• Work with the engineering team to drive the completion of the subsystems and to integrate them together. Validate the quality and fitness for purpose of the various subsystems developed by the individual engineering contributors.
• Ensure compliance, verification, and validation test methods and measurements ensure conformance to the product requirements.
• Exhibit high attention to detail and strong organizational skills, including engineering knowledge capture, transfer, presentation, and dissemination during and after a project completion.
• Exhibit excellent communications skills, including demonstrated ability to effectively present information and status to the senior management team, customers, project-team members, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders of the product development process.

What Do You Need?
Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/science
• 8+ years of engineering responsibilities in technical product development
• 5+ years of engineering management experience
• Demonstrated technical team leadership in Systems Engineering or Engineering lead/supervisor role
• Experience architecting and delivering embedded systems, including measurement, electrical hardware, mechanical, and embedded, desktop and cloud software
• Experience with leading, developing, documenting, and managing change of product requirements in collaboration with stakeholders
• Demonstrated leadership in technical direction and mentoring, including driving architecture decisions, establishing best practices, and guiding teams through complex development lifecycles
• Extensive experience with verification and validation of products and systems, developing test plans and procedures to verify that the product meets the project requirements and validate that it meets customer expectations.
• Willing and excited to learn new technologies

Desired

• Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Engineering or B.S./M.S. degree in systems engineering from an established research institution
• Experience in metrology, filtration, particle measurements in liquids and gases
• Systems engineering responsibilities in technical product development, such as metrology instrumentation, incorporating high-performance mechanical parts, digital/analog electronics, software/firmware and graphical user interface

What Can We Give You?
At TSI, our employees are our most valuable assets, and we care about their health and happiness. We offer a competitive benefits program to keep our employees and their family members protected and foster a healthy work-life balance. Additionally, we are committed to employee development and growth, and encourage and foster an environment of collaboration, and innovation. Our work has meaning and the products we design and build help protect people and the environment.

Dress for your day: We want our employees to be comfortable at work and we know they are more productive when they’re comfortable. The dress for your day policy allows employees’ discretion to select appropriate dress for the business of each workday.

Pay & Benefits: 

Competitive market salary from $160,000 - $180,000 per year* depending on qualifications and experience. For eligible Leadership and individual contributor roles, additional bonus opportunities may be available and awarded at the discretion of the Company.

Benefits:

• Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement Plan: 401(k) with company match.
• Paid Time Off Program: Paid time off, paid holidays, and paid floating holidays.
• Other Benefits: Life insurance, employee assistance program (EAP), and professional development opportunities.

*Pay amount does not guarantee employment for any particular period of time.

Legal authorization to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship.  We require proof of eligibility to work in the United States. 

EOE/Vet/Disability