Crane Aerospace and Electronics has an exciting opportunity for an Electrical Engineering Manager at our Lynnwood, WA location.
About Crane:
Crane Aerospace & Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense spanets. You’ll find Crane Aerospace & Electronics in some of the toughest environments: from engines to landing gear; from satellites to medical implants and from missiles to unmanned aerial systems (UAS).
Located in the epicenter of United States aviation manufacturing, our Crane Aerospace & Electronics Lynnwood, Wash., facility delivers industry-leading aerospace & defense power and fluid solutions. Our products are rugged enough to fly 5 billion miles from Earth on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and innovative enough to be featured on Eviation’s Alice all-electric aircraft. You’ll join a group of aerospace professionals committed to engineering excellence and work in a community tucked between the idyllic Puget Sound and Cascade Mountains. Start the next chapter of your career with Crane Aerospace & Electronics!
Job Summary:
The Electrical Engineering Manager position holds leadership responsibility for a team tasked to provide Electrical Engineering / Electrical Design support to new product development, including electrical stress analysis / power dissipation / magnetics / worst case tolerance analysis to support product development. Ensures standard designs, methodologies, and tools & processes are used throughout. Ensure experienced and trained electrical engineers and designers are available to support Electronics Custom Power.
Essential Functions:
- Manage and lead Electrical Engineering team(s) to support product development needs.
- Ensure that staff development and evaluation plans are implemented to maximize employee potential including accountability and appropriate training and counseling plans.
- Identify and manage contract personnel as needed during periods of high need/short-term resource loading requirements.
- Responsible for identification of required resource levels and skill mix and for maintaining resource levels at budgeted levels.
- Ensure teams deliver designs per Electronics Group process standards and per program cost and schedule requirements.
- Maintain library of standard design lessons learned and enhance as new standard solutions are developed and applied.
- Perform design verification and validation activities in accordance with industry and company standards, including all necessary design and verification documentation as required by Solutions teams.
- Identify hardware equipment design and fabrication outsourcing opportunities to reduce cost and improve quality and delivery for engineering efforts.
- Work with cross functional teams to provide best available estimates for development and recurring costs for design aspects of new product development programs.
- Provide necessary support for preparation of business proposals and/or capture plans.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Experience: Requires 7+ years of power electronics/analog experience and 3+ years of People managerial experience. Aerospace/Space experience and project management experience preferred.
- Education: Requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
- Knowledge: Familiar with a variety of the fields concepts, practices, and processes. Strong new product development process knowledge and implementation. Understanding of power conversion technologies, analog circuit design, switching waveforms, magnetic theory and application, and modeling/simulation preferred.
- Skills: Planning, Organizing, Analysis, Leadership, Interpersonal, Decision Making, Oral and Written Presentation Skills in English, Multi-Tasking, Project Management, Active Listening, Troubleshooting, Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Complex Problem Solving, Active Learning, Systems Analysis, Judgment and Decision Making, Time Management, and Enthusiasm.
- Eligibility Requirement: This position may require access to Controlled Data or Information. Where the position requires such access only US Persons will be considered. As a US Department of Defense contractor, we are bound by International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
Top Benefits:
Salary range: $161,574.40 to 196,976.00. Several factors contribute to actual salary, including experience in a similar role or performing comparable job responsibilities, skills, training, and other qualifications. Some roles may be eligible for participation in performance-based bonus programs.
As a team member at Crane Aerospace and Electronics, you’ll enjoy:
- Benefits: Health care, dental, vision, life and disability insurance starting the first day of the month
- Time Off: 15 days of paid time off that start accruing your first day at Crane and 12 paid holidays per year.
- 401k Retirement Plan: 401k plan with company match
- Education Reimbursement: eligible after 90 days of employment
You can see a list of our benefits at https://www.craneae.com/company/careers or visit our website at www.CraneAE.com for more information on our company and great opportunities.
We are committed to operational excellence and world class processes. We employ Lean manufacturing techniques to optimize manufacturing efficiency and accuracy on all product lines. Our products are known for their technical strength, proven reliability and overall value.
In our efforts to maintain a safe and drug-free workplace, Crane Aerospace & Electronics requires that candidates complete a satisfactory background check. FAA sensitive positions require employees to participate in a random drug test pool.
This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work being performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Crane Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, genetic information, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.
