Cubic Corporation

http://www.cubic.com/

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Cubic creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation that make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities that help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is driven to solve global challenges through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a leading portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions (CMPS).

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Manufacturing Manager

Cubic Corporation

Ashburn, Illinois, United States

Posted: 10 months ago

Job description Job Summary: The successful candidate will oversee & direct all manufacturing activities, achieving effective and efficient use of personnel, equipment, and facilities while assuring conformance to delivery schedules, quality goals, and budgets.  Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Oversee all assembly and test flow processes within manufacturing that lead to the completion of high performance products, and report results on a regular basis.  Plan, develop, and implement activities within the department to meet quality and cost objectives. Facilitate the timely completion on all orders, prepare progress reports, and eliminate difficulties or delays that hinder success. Work with piers to develop schedules, plan out production activities, and fulfill material requirements towards completing builds in a timely, cost-effective manner while meeting or exceeding delivery requirements.  Coordinate with our Engineering and Materials groups to ensure the throughput and quality optimization of products. Work with cross-functional teams to resolve discrepancies, remove or mitigate roadblocks, resolve issues of non-compliance, and facilitate communications among all business groups.  Work with senior management to set and maintain budgets (headcount, expense, and capital), and assist in resource planning to achieve business objectives. Assist in the establishment of improved strategies to develop and launch new products. Propose, review, and take ownership of changes to existing processes in order to maximize efficiency while shortening timelines.  Utilize process, quality, and throughput improvement methodologies in directing the development, implementation, and maintenance of processes for both new and existing products and technologies.  This includes compliance with safety, state, and federal regulations. Assist in the implementation of policies and procedures, formulate manufacturing operational strategies, and oversee the mentoring and training of manufacturing employees to help drive successful business results. Responsible for the performance of direct reports.  Oversee the Assembly, Test, and kitting groups; including process/yield improvements efforts, utilization, and data review.  Develop & maintain a highly disciplined team committed to producing high performance products, accountable for the quality of their work, their communications with fellow stakeholders, and responsiveness in resolving issues that may threaten revenue, quality, material, or cost target obtainment.  Working with HR, manage and resolve personnel issues that may arise. The successful candidate may also facilitate other efforts relating to materials, shipping, customer support services, process documentation, or other duties as assigned by supervisor.   Some travel, less than 10%.   Minimum Job Requirements:  Four-year college degree, or equivalent, in a technical field and/or business administration plus eight years related experience including three years management experience in an electromechanical manufacturing environment. Must be a US Citizen, eligible for Secret security clearance.  Familiarity with personal computer software.  Mentally capable of performing responsibilities under high levels of stress.  Ability to set priorities and handle multiple assignments.

Manufacturing Engineer - Mechanical

Cubic Corporation

Ashburn, Illinois, United States

Posted: 10 months ago

Job description  Position Summary: The successful candidate will perform engineering and related technical assignments utilizing best manufacturing engineering practices and principles.  Constructs, advances, and implements methods for products and processes involving advanced systems that support organizational quality, cost, volume, and new product release objectives.       Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Support the assembly & testing of products in manufacturing and determine the best tooling, equipment, and other manufacturing aids necessary to meet objectives. Analyze requirements and system design documentation in order to assist in the development of efficient, repeatable manufacturing processes. Actively participate in the new product introduction process, providing input on manufacturing related processing issues in order to meet or exceed quality, cost, throughput, and manufacturability goals. Participate in BOM development and modification with Engineering and Configuration teams. Develop layouts, workstations, and process flows necessary to produce products in a high quality, cost effective manner while meeting demand requirements. Create, implement, modify, and monitor manufacturing procedures that accurately reflect approved methods, and assist in writing standard operating procedures as needed to meet required guidelines.  Assist in the training of manufacturing employees in the effective methods and processes to produce products. Identify bottlenecks and make recommendation for their removal. Identify opportunities to improve quality issues and reduce manufacturing costs. Develop alternative methods toward improving production efficiencies and effectiveness. Take an active role in providing cost analysis of various alternatives to issues or process improvements, and help manage the implementation of improvement efforts. Actively participate in the creation, implementation, and monitoring of statistical process control techniques, including control chart development and the identification of required support tools or equipment. Must be able to support and understand controlled experimentation and data interpretation to make informed decisions. Assist development and operations with diagnosis, troubleshooting and resolution of performance issues as required, and drive them to resolution. Identify out of control variances, investigate reasons, suggest solutions, implement, and follow-up to assure closure. Maintain baseline metrics for identified processes. Create and update routings to reflect manufacturing methods. Create rework documentation as required.   Provide input into the Material Review Board. Some travel, less than 10%.   Additional Responsibilities: Be an advocate for getting high performance, robust designs incorporated into company products. Maintain timeliness to schedule on assigned tasks. Effectively balance work on multiple projects and teams simultaneously. Maintain library of key lessons learned and best practices. Work independently or as a team and be adaptive to changing goals and priorities. Provide effective communications to peers, manufacturing personnel, and management on all relevant issues.  Travel to contract manufacturers as required to establish, maintain, and improve quality and throughput. Other duties as assigned by your supervisor.     Minimum Qualifications: 2 years of experience and success in an electro-mechanical manufacturing environment. Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, or similar discipline. Proficient in the standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the electronic/mechanical field. Strong statistical and analytical skill and mind set. Strong problem solving and troubleshooting ability. Demonstratable proficiency in several of the following disciplines: SPC, Cpk analysis, Line Balancing, FMEA, Gage R&R, Taguchi/Fishbone diagrams, DOE, Six Sigma, DFM/DFX. Ability to thrive working in a fast paced and expanding environment. Very strong organization, multi-tasking, time management and documentation skills Strong communication skills. PC literate in the use of MS Office suite. Must be a US citizen, eligible for Secret security clearance.   Desired Qualifications: Experience and knowledge of new product introduction cycles Tooling and fixture design experience Experience and knowledge of surface mount technologies Kaizen event experience

Embedded Software Engineer

Cubic Corporation

Ashburn, Illinois, United States

Posted: 10 months ago

Job description  Job Summary: Performs complex software engineering assignments. Provides technical guidance and leadership. Provides project coordination and supervision. Coordinates activities for proposals/new business. Defines budget and schedule constraints. This position typically works under general supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.   Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: • Coordinates and develops project concepts, objectives, specifications and resource needs. Prepares design specifications, analyses and recommendations. • Participates in the design, development, planning modification and/or improvement of software systems in accordance with Cubic engineering procedures. • Researches programming system failures and designs and programs solutions. Performs complex analysis of design programming. • Conceptualizes, develops and analyzes engineering designs, specifications and test plans for systems and advanced technology theory and knowledge. • Coordinates and contributes to compilation and writing of proposal documents. Prepares design proposals to reflect cost, schedules and technical approaches. • Recommends test control, strategies, apparatus and equipment. Defines test schedules and test data requirements. Test and documents results. • Prepares and develops software, codes software and design specific enhancements. • Maintains liaison with the customers, coordinators, subcontractors and vendor representatives. • Conducts in-House design reviews and technical meetings. Makes presentations before management and customers. • Monitors project status and progress and measure system performance. • Keeps abreast of improvements in software engineering. Identifies software engineering process improvement and supports the execution of them across the organization. • Provides mentorship to junior engineering staff. • Assumes additional technical responsibilities as needed.    Minimum Job Requirements: Four-year college degree in computer science, computer engineering or other related technical discipline, plus a minimum of five years of related experience or a master’s degree with at least three years of related experience. Experience to include specification, design and development of software systems. Requires proficiency using programming languages such as Java, “C/C++/C#,” Product Lifecycle Management, graphics or other developmental software.  Require ability to develop software in a Unix, Windows Server 2003/2008/Vista/XP/Windows 7 and up, Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) or other PC environment.  Require experience with embedded processing.  Ability to use PC software such as Microsoft Word/Project/Visio, database, spreadsheet and flowchart, and Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools.  Effective written and oral communication skills required.  Knowledge of customer needs and competing products desirable.  Able to analyze and solve complex software engineering problems.  Able to prioritize work and complete multiple tasks under deadline and budget guidelines. May be required to travel domestically and internationally to include working odd hours, in-line with customer requirements

Director Engineering

Cubic Corporation

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Posted: 10 months ago

Job description Job Summary: This position is for the Director of Engineering for our GATR product line of Inflatable Satellite Antennas. Candidate should have experience with military antenna components, modems and power supplies. Directs and provides leadership to respective engineering department.  Provides guidance and direction through close coordination and oversight of first and second line managers.  Establishes objectives and long-range goals of the engineering department that are consistent and in-line with that of the business. Ensures engineering department is appropriately staffed, correctly trained, embodies the appropriate talents and skillsets, has a sound succession plan that does not have single points of failure, and supports employee career planning.  Provides technical consultation and council to the VP Engineering and supports the establishment of best practices and continuous improvement throughout all of Engineering and especially within respective engineering department.  This position typically works under limited supervision and direction and incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.   Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: Experience with military antenna components, modems and power supplies Direct experience developing custom mechanical enclosures and PCB assemblies Knowledge of military environmental testing requirements Provide leadership and direct engineering staff Ensures engineering staff follow industry standard engineering best practices and incorporate industry best practices as continuous improvement to the engineering department Directs and controls organizational activities through first and second line managers and direct staff Acts as liaison with other managers and customer representatives concerning projects, operational decisions, scheduling requirements, or contractual clarification Participates in the performance evaluation process and recommends salary adjustments and personnel actions to include hiring, discipline, recognition and termination Motivates, delegates, coaches and trains subordinates Attends briefings and technical meetings for internal and external representatives, when necessary Participates in customer contract negotiations, when necessary Directs fact-finding in support of proposal development, to include cost and schedule estimates Keeps abreast of new technologies and new techniques and identifies technology development requirements for the Engineering Department Supports Engineering in the day to day activities of the organization including defining and implementing strategic technical direction, short and long term planning Directs the continual developments of the organization in terms of personnel, training, process definition/execution, and discipline Resolves conflicts/problems at all levels within engineering department Provides and supervise overall technological direction Monitor, track, and report on engineering department in regards to engineering efficiency, engineering discipline specific metrics, regular product and project updates, and areas for improvement Coordinates planning, organization, budgeting, and specifications of all engineering projects and assures timely and high quality delivery   Minimum Job Requirements: Four-year college degree, in engineering, or other related technical discipline plus twelve years’ related experience, with a minimum of five years’ supervisory experience.  Experience to include exercising creativity in technical direction and successful strategy development.  Ability to interpret technical contract requirements.  Ability to effectively communicate verbally, and in writing, and deal with employees and managers at all levels in, engineering and other functional organizations. Must be able to demonstrate the mental agility to work in a functional/matrix organization. Ability to travel both domestically and internationally.

Senior Systems Test Engineer - EMI/EMC

Cubic Corporation

San Diego, California, United States

Posted: 10 months ago

Job Summary: The Senior Systems Test Engineer – EMI/EMC operates and maintains an Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) lab facility capable of supporting the contractual needs of all Cubic Defense programs. This position typically works under general supervision and direction.  Incumbents of this position exercise discretionary decision-making authority. During slower times, the successful candidate will support environmental test or other systems test activities.  Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: Interfaces with Design Engineering to provide EMC analysis and direction for all Cubic Defense programs. Assists Design Engineering on selection of Shielding, Bonding, Filtering and Bandwidth & Amplitude Limiting devices and materials Reviews designs to provide insights and solutions to EMC related design, packaging, and implementation issues Interfaces with customer and/or regulatory representatives during program meetings and formal qualification tests Performs all duties related to maintaining the presence of an EMC lab, including scheduling, selection of test equipment, maintenance of the facility, building of test jigs, selection of outside specialty calibration sources and creation of documentation. Performs testing in support of engineering evaluation testing, pre-compliance testing, and formal qualification testing. Performs testing on new materials to ascertain their EMC benefits Provides quotation and estimation of EMC program costs Develops formal EMC test procedures and test reports Develops external business revenue flow through the sale of independent EMC test lab services   Minimum Job Requirements: Four-year college degree in electrical engineering plus a minimum of five years experience in EMC test and laboratory operations. Masters degree preferred. NARTE EMC Engineering Certification required, EMC Technician Certification desirable. Thorough knowledge of MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-285, RTCA DO-160, FCC Parts 2, 15 and 18; familiarity with ISO-17025, CISPR 11 & 22, EN 50081 and EN 50082 and Defence Standard 59-411 preferred. Thorough knowledge of radio frequency generation, propagation, control, safety and measurement techniques. Thorough knowledge of transient high voltage and high current pulse generation and measurement techniques. Ability to hold DoD Secret level clearance and COMSEC briefing. Current clearance is a plus. Ability to work in an environment of radio frequency and high voltage exposure hazards, ensuring both personal and colleagues’ safety. Ability to interpret intent of standards for new products. Good analytical and numeric skills. Able to lift 50 pounds. Ability to prioritize work, complete multiple tasks, and work under deadlines. Thorough familiarity with Microsoft Office (particularly Excel & Word) and the ability to merge digital photos, charts, tables and graphs into large documents. Ability to interpret large quantities of data and to convey the significance to non-technical parties. Good communicative and interpersonal skills are essential to perform duties.

IT Network Architect

Cubic Corporation

San Diego, California, United States

Posted: 10 months ago

Job description  The IT Network Architect will provide technical leadership in the delivery of solutions that meet customer requirements in an RFP (Request for Proposals) process. The Network Architect will be a thought leader in the planning, design and implementation of customer systems as well as the development of new product platforms. The IT Network Architect is responsible for analyzing business and technical requirements and for delivery of infrastructure solutions by leveraging technology guidelines. Candidate will be a networking expert addressing the challenges of systems integration, while leading technical triage of our most complex networking issues. The candidate will have a full understanding of industry best-practices and may serve in a variety of roles that include customer and third-party vendor interaction to resolve a wide range of issues in imaginative as well as practical ways. An expert in network engineering with overall understanding of our product solutions is required. Candidate should have a mastery of a wide range of network architectures to support 24/7 transactional systems. Must be able to provide technical write-ups and drawings to promote the proposed solutions to include providing quotes from third party suppliers to support the proposed hardware, software, and cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of leadership and influence as this individual will work across the organization with multiple and varied technical teams to define, design, and drive the development and delivery of complex technical strategy and solutions. This position typically works under general supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.   Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: An expert level understanding of network infrastructure design and best practice principles including routing and switching concepts and technologies, advanced IP addressing, dynamic routing protocols. MPLS, Secure and resilient routing solutions, Unified communications, Load balancing and traffic management, Quality of Service (QOS), Wireless and Mobile communications. Highly advanced troubleshooting and problem diagnosis skills developed from proven experience Subject Matter Expert responsible for mentoring our global staff including skills evaluation, change implementation reviews and partnership with our global network manager An in-depth understanding of end-to-end secure network concepts, technologies and protocols including Access control, Next generation, Web application and Stateful firewalls technologies, Intrusion prevention, Encryption (IPSEC, SSL, PKI), Security event information management systems, Proxy services. Responsible for designing solutions, aligned with customer requirements for projects initiated by supported lines of business in coordination with other technical departments Works with a wide range of engineering resources as needed, ensuring that end-to-end network design is completed Prepares design specifications, analyses and recommendations based on customer requirements. Including networking, cloud, on-premise solutions.  Researches system designs and enhancement solutions. Partners with project team to complete technical design documents Partners with PM to document implementation tasks for the project Responsible for ensuring that the designed solution addresses all business and systems (functional/non-functional) requirements Maintains liaison with customer, subcontractor and vendor representatives. Evaluates vendor capabilities to provide required products or services. Conducts in-house design reviews and technical meetings. Makes presentations before management and customers. Assumes additional technical and non-technical responsibilities as needed include proof-of-concepts and implementing solution designs. Hybrid position on-site at San Diego headquarters or Tullahoma, TN as needed. Travel domestic and international up to 25% as needed.   Minimum Job Requirements: Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electronic Engineering or other related technical discipline, and/or the combined equivalent of education and experience. Ten years' experience, including network design/development/implementation, providing technical direction and leadership to team members. Competent use of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Project, Visio, PowerPoint.. Excellent written and verbal communication skills Able to positively interact with customers, subcontractors and vendors.  Must be able to solve complex and difficult system problems. Some travel may be required. Able to work flexible hours as required. Ability to manage simultaneous projects in multiple locations across the United States and internationally. Self-driven and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as work well in groups. Experience developing Networking Solutions as a lead engineer, architect or manager.   Cloud-based networking experience in public and private cloud environments (preferred Azure). Experience network engineering and administration to include L2, L3, and L7 switches, preferably Cisco. 7+ years’ managing vendor relationships and working with professional engagements.