Principal Engineer (Guidance & Control)

About HALCON

HALCON is a regional and international leader that offers next-generation Weapons Systems and Robotics Expertise to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. HALCON has developed in-house expertise across the entire value chain for gravity-release bomb guidance systems. This includes design, development, testing, manufacturing and assembly. Our end-to-end capabilities ensure exceptional quality and competitive pricing. As well, we are faster and more flexible in meeting customer requirements. 

Key Accountabilities:

• Contribute effectively in the establishment of Guidance & Control capabilities, its infrastructure, tools and labs
• Act as the technical advisor and point of contact for Guidance & Control projects
• Derive and maintain guidance and control requirements and specifications
• Ensure all project milestones are achieved in accordance with the project master plan
• Manage any of the departmental technical capabilities not limited to Simulation, Guidance & Control, Tracking system, Software Development [SIL and PIL], Lab Testing and Performance Verification and Mission planning
• Provide advice based on analysis and feasibility studies with respect to the soundness of weapon system concepts
• Clearly communicate program and engineering issues to internal and external stakeholders
• Perform conceptual missile guidance and control design studies taking into account interactions and requirements arising from subsystems
• Develop departmental manuals and qualify analysis procedures to reduce uncertainty in schedule and development risk
• Participate in planning, execution and post processing of modelling and simulation activities, hardware-in-the-loop tests, flight test activities (including pre-flight preparation to post-flight analysis) and other analysis methods
• Guide development activities towards solutions that are economic to manufacture and can support long term vision and objectives of the department
• Conduct future investigations on (but not limited to) cutting edge technologies and implementation of Futuristic Methodologies and Algorithms
• Stay current on advances in technologies that may provide opportunities to a project or broader company objectives
• Act as the technical mentor for the team, guiding and developing their problem-solving capability and coaching and mentoring them while they execute tasks of increasing complexity

Experience & Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or an Aerospace related field of study with an emphasis on Automatic Control Systems
• 12+ years of experience in successfully combining modelling, simulation and estimation methods in the design of guidance and flight control systems. Work experience in an interdisciplinary development environment is required
• Detailed knowledge of the engineering discipline and the development of guided weapon systems
• Experience in flight test data reduction is beneficial

Key Skills:

• Develop guided weapon simulation models
• Design, conduct and interpret experiments
• Knowledge of Guidance performance prediction
• Ability to select most appropriate analysis pathway
• Ability to identify and resolve ambiguities and contradictions
• System engineering
• Problem solving
• Managing and driving performance
• Strategic thinking
• Managing resources
• Decision making
• Coaching and mentoring

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