# Section Manager for Assembly, Integration, and Test

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

Leidos Defense Systems Sector is seeking a Section Manager for Assembly, Integration, and Test to join its team supporting multiple hypersonics programs as part of the Advanced Materials and Test Division.

The Section Manager will lead a section of AI&T engineers to integrate, test, and field hypersonic vehicles. The Section Manager is accountable for technical direction, schedule adherence, cross-functional coordination, and ensuring manufacturability and testability through the assembly, integration, and testing cycle.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Lead and mentor a section of Metrology and AI&T engineers to deliver hypersonic vehicles per Technical Data Package requirements within scope, schedule, and budget.

- Oversee the assembly, integration, and testing of hypersonic vehicles, ensuring all systems meet design and performance requirements.

- Ensure compliance with system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), safety policies, and applicable aerospace standards and regulations.

- Collaborate with manufacturing and quality to ensure producibility, maintain schedule commitments, and resolve nonconformances and build issues.

- Guide test planning and execution for environmental, structural, and functional verification of hypersonic vehicle components and assemblies.

- Manage technical risks through mitigation plans, verification of risk closure, and adjustment of schedule/requirements as applicable.

- Maintain program-level documentation, configuration control, and technical data.

- Interface with program management, customers, and cross-program IPTs to align priorities and report technical status.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a closely related discipline and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience.

- Demonstrated experience on multidisciplinary engineering teams performing AI&T of hypersonic vehicles or comparable aerospace vehicles.

- Practical knowledge of hypersonic vehicle (or comparable aerospace vehicle) assembly, integration, and test.

- Familiarity with producibility, fabrication processes, inspection, and manufacturing acceptance criteria.

- Proven ability to plan and run verification/validation campaigns and to coordinate acceptance testing.

- Familiarity with packaging, transport, and handling requirements for missile hardware.

- Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to present complex technical information to diverse stakeholders.

- Strong leadership, decision-making, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.

- Experience working with government/defense customers and knowledge of program lifecycle and contractual considerations.

- Candidate must be a US Citizen and be able to obtain and maintain a final secret clearance.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master's or PhD in Aerospace/Mechanical/Systems Engineering.

- Prior experience specifically on glide bodies, reentry vehicles, or guided munitions.

- Familiarity with relevant standards (e.g., MIL STD, SAE, ASTM).

- Experience working prototype programs within an AS9100 production environment.

- Secret Cleared.

## Skills

### Required
- Aerospace Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Hypersonic Vehicle Assembly
- Integration and Test
- Metrology
- Dynamic Testing
- Environmental Testing
- Mass Properties Testing

### Nice to have
- Master's or PhD in Aerospace/Mechanical/Systems Engineering
- Glide Bodies
- Reentry Vehicles
- Guided Munitions
- MIL STD
- SAE
- ASTM
- AS9100 production environment

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