Facilities Eng Sr Prin
About The Position
The Facilities Engineering Senior Principal role supports the Operations Strategic Capabilities Unit by identifying, organizing, and prioritizing facilities projects across the portfolio and aligning project work with management’s strategic objectives. The role leads cross-functional teams and manages multiple capital projects through the annual capital cycle, with responsibility for on-budget, on-schedule delivery and customer satisfaction. The position applies project-management methods and tools to plan and control schedules, budgets, and quality. It also uses project execution analytics to identify waste and reduce process variation, leads contractor and internal-customer negotiations, mentors junior engineers, and contributes to improved project-management systems and processes. The role requires strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills, including the ability to lead discussions and present to executive staff. This is an on-site role requiring in-person engagement at the primary work location three or more days each normally scheduled week. Travel and local commuting between company campuses and other locations may be required. Work may take place in an office, laboratory, production floor, cleanroom, outdoors, or a remote research environment. Occasional work in production areas may require protective equipment, and access to other facilities may involve varying weather conditions. A security clearance or access with Polygraph is not required to be eligible, but the applicant must be willing and eligible for submission after accepting an offer if program requirements call for it, and able to maintain the applicable clearance or access.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or a related technical field, plus 8 or more years of related experience.
- A master’s degree or Ph.D. may substitute for two years of experience per higher-level degree; related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education.
- Any degree must be from an institution accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education or U.S. Department of Education.
- Project-management experience and a history of managing high-performing teams.
- Understanding of and interest in strategic project planning at the portfolio level.
- Proficiency with Revit, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Microsoft Office Suite, and Excel.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well as a team player.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Willingness and eligibility to be submitted for applicable security clearance or access, depending on program requirements, after accepting an offer, and ability to maintain it.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field.
- Experience with large projects exceeding $1 million.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification.
Responsibilities
- Identify, organize, and prioritize facilities projects within the portfolio.
- Align with management to understand success criteria and ensure activities support strategic objectives.
- Facilitate cross-functional teams executing projects across BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems.
- Manage multiple capital projects with competing priorities through the annual capital cycle, delivering projects on budget and on schedule.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships across organizational levels and provide detailed customer service to multiple customers.
- Manage customer expectations, advocate for customer needs, and drive customer satisfaction.
- Collaborate within and outside Facilities and Plant Operations to develop solutions to complex problems.
- Manage a high volume of related requests and deliver creative, effective solutions.
- Scope and manage capital projects using financial analysis concepts and methods.
- Use project-management methodologies and tools, including MS Project, risk registers, and Gantt charts, to monitor and control project schedules, budgets, and quality.
- Analyze project execution data, potentially including value stream mapping, capacity-demand analysis, and process-queue calculations, to eliminate waste and reduce process variation.
- Develop project schedules from plans and specifications, calculate time requirements, sequence project elements, monitor progress, coordinate activities, and resolve problems.
- Lead negotiations with contractors on costs and with internal customers on requirements.
- Lead project teams, mentor early-career and junior engineers, and help improve overall team performance.
- Assist with integrating new project-management systems and processes.
- Communicate and present effectively, lead group discussions, and deliver presentations to executive staff.
- Build interdepartmental relationships and apply project-management structure to deliver projects on time and under budget.
- Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
- Maintain effective working relationships across the department, Strategic Business Units, Strategic Capabilities Units, and the company, contributing to a positive and productive work environment.
- Perform other duties as necessary.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
