Lead, Project Engineer

L3Harris•Waco, TX

12d•Onsite

About The Position

L3Harris is seeking a Lead Project Engineer to support the bid and execution of complex system integration efforts on airborne platforms. The role ensures technical development meets program technical, cost, and schedule requirements, from planning through the full program lifecycle. The Project Engineer coordinates program activities, documents and approves program plans, ensures lifecycle process adherence, manages risks, and interacts with customers and senior leadership. The Project Engineer provides direction to engineering functional task leaders across disciplines, including systems, software, aeronautical, specialty, and logistic engineering, as well as technical publications. The role serves as a key technical interface to customers throughout every phase of a program and supports new-business capture, bid estimates, and technical responses. This position leads cross-functional engineering work, manages aircraft integrity programs, develops and oversees technical and project plans, reviews engineering deliverables, resolves complex issues, and leads design and milestone reviews. It also tracks engineering performance, cost, and schedule, reports program status to senior engineering leadership, and supports bid and proposal development in accordance with engineering processes and policies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 9 years of relevant experience; or a graduate degree and at least 7 years of related experience; or, in lieu of a degree, at least 13 years of related experience.
Active DoD Secret security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for the clearance.
Demonstrated experience in program planning, guidance, and engineering execution within scope, schedule, and budget.
Demonstrated understanding of engineering processes and policies.
Demonstrated experience in bid and proposal development.
Ability to travel as needed based on business demands.
Demonstrated experience in at least one of these disciplines: aeronautical engineering (mechanical, electrical, or flight sciences), software/hardware engineering, systems engineering (including test engineering), or project engineering.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated leadership experience as a Task Leader, IPT Leader, Functional Manager, or in a similar role.
Demonstrated experience communicating with internal and external customer stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Provide engineering leadership to a cross-functional team to resolve design and integration challenges.
Serve as the primary technical focal point for assigned programs, ensuring alignment with customer, regulatory, cost, schedule, and performance requirements.
Manage an aircraft Integrity Program, including the Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP), Mechanical Equipment and Subsystem Integrity Program (MECSIP), and Propulsion System Integrity Program (PSIP).
Coordinate engineering support for development and on-time delivery of the Aircraft Battle Damage Assessment Report Technical Manual.
Develop and manage project plans, technical baselines, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, and resource forecasts.
Review and approve engineering deliverables, analyses, test plans, technical reports, interface documents, and design changes.
Drive resolution of complex engineering issues, root cause investigations, nonconformances, and corrective and preventive actions.
Lead design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, and TRR), technical interchange meetings, and milestone reviews with internal stakeholders, customers, and suppliers.
Track Engineering Performance Metrics and brief program status monthly to senior engineering leadership.
Track cost and schedule execution, explain variances, and identify the path to return programs to targets.
Lead cross-functional teams in bid/proposal and program planning, including Basis of Estimate (BOE) generation and technical-volume responses to customer ROMs, RFIs, and RFPs.
Set up bid tools used during bid generation and track required completion status.
Ensure program execution and bid/proposal development comply with engineering processes and policies.
Ensure compliance with performance, reliability, and safety standards.
Support planning and execution of program activities, program-plan documentation and approval, lifecycle process adherence, risk management, program coordination, new-business capture, bid estimates, and technical responses.