Director Engineering Software

Business Unit:Cubic Transportation SystemsCompany Details:When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.
We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.Job Details:Job Summary: Director Engineering Software is focused on the operation of the Engineering department. This is a technical role, requiring experience overseeing technical engineering activities, including how to track their completion and how to use execution metrics to visualize projections, to ensure that project and product schedules are supported and engineering capacity is supported. This role also focuses on schedule across the entirety of the Engineering departments, to ensure continuity of development across the various teams and ensuring that SPI/CPI is managed across the variety of work streams. This role is responsible for ensuring that the engineering rhythm is maintained, while ensuring that program and product schedules are supported. Focus is also to ensure that the capacity of the team is available to support the work streams and efforts needed each quarter. This role will also lead capacity management as well as tracking engineering metrics to report engineering performance in ways above and beyond traditional EVM. This role will create dashboards and stoplights to help provide the information to the teams to ensure clarity on the performance of their teams, and will also put together executive summaries for executive review. This position typically works under limited supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority. Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: Work with the Vice President of Engineering to track, manage, visualize, and present Engineering performance Work with Engineering Directors and Leadership to understand technical details of work streams, execution metrics, engineering quality, schedules, and staffing Work with engineering leads to develop cost and schedule estimates for Engineering Change Proposals Work with Regional Teams and Global Teams as it relates to existing work and new business Prepare monthly cost reports including earned value Use Engineering metrics to visualize and projection completion, and address with action plans when necessary Partner with Schedulers and Program team in developing and implementing Rolling Waves and Quarterly Release Plans Interface with customer audit agencies, support monthly reviews, support quarterly reviews and all other audits Support proposals, gates, and baseline reviews as necessary Support special projects as requested by the VP Engineering or Engineering leadership team Analyze program execution risk, cost & schedule variances, and develop performance improvement plans Work with engineering department managers to manage headcount of respective area of responsibility – including developing manpower forecasts and analyses of plan vs. actual staffing levels Prepare program performance summary presentations for management and the customer including monthly program review and customer tracking book Work collaboratively with engineering, program and finance teams to estimate completion costs Comply with Cubic’s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures. In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them. Minimum Job Requirements: Qualifications Skills/Experience/Knowledge: B.S. in Engineering discipline, Information Systems, Computer Science, or other technical discipline. Minimum of 12 years engineering experience with at least 5 years in a leadership position. This is an Engineering role which would be hired into from an Engineering position, based on candidate qualifications. Must have a very good understanding of engineering development and technical dependencies, and be able to map this information to higher level metrics. Demonstrated ability to express engineering issues in a way that is comprehensible to the business and skilled at visualization of work items, capacity, execution metrics, and projections. Experience planning and managing systems engineering activities on large software projects. Experience working in a multi discipline environment. Experience with Cost Account Management (Earned Value Management (EVMS), Program Controls and EAC process). Familiarity with the software development life cycle. Must have the ability to multitask effectively in a fast paced work environment while delivering on time quality results. Must exhibit a high level of initiative, commitment, and accountability. Personal Qualities: Effective written and oral communication skills Excellent problem-solving skills Team player Able to prioritize work, complete multiple tasks and work under deadline and budget guidelines. May be required to travel domestically and internationally to include working odd hours, in-line with customer requirements The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.Worker Type:Employee