Lead, Project Engineering

L3Harris • Greenville, NC

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About The Position

The Project Engineer (PE) holds technical responsibility and authority for the program under the authority from Engineering Leadership to execute assigned programs, as well as direct integration with the Program Manager (PM). This includes but is not limited to: Adhering to technical scope; Remaining within Engineering Program budget; and, Ensuring alignment with overall Program Schedule. To this end, the individual Engineering Functional Task Leaders (Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Specialty Engineering, Logistic Engineering, Technical Publications, etc.) report to/and take direction from the PE for the assigned program operations. The PE coordinates with the Functional Managers in the utilization of and Earned Value (EV) reporting via the Labor Tracking System (LTS) to ensure consistency between the Functional and Program roll-up relative to performance against schedule and budgeted work scope. The PE is also responsible for program technical performance that extends beyond the "Engineering" functions, to ensure technical compliance within the total operations activities (i.e. extends to the interfaces of manufacturing and HD&L). Project Engineers are a key technical interface for Customers and have the responsibility and opportunity to interact at every phase of the program lifecycle. Essential Functions: Secret Clearance with ability to achieve TS/SCI if deemed necessary, ability to travel, & working extended hours

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Advanced technical or management degrees are a plus.
• Previous experience in managing Engineering, Procurement, and Fabrication projects for military ISR platforms
• Program planning, guidance, and engineering execution within scope, schedule and budget
• Broad understanding of engineering processes and policies
• Bidding and Proposals which includes working with material and production estimating in that bidding process
• Mission System Installation on Airborne Platforms
• Design, Development and Test efforts
• Aero Engineering of any discipline, or Sustainment Engineering, or Systems Engineering (including Test Engineering); or Hardware Engineering; or Project Engineering.
• Leadership Skills (i.e. Task, IPT Leader and/or Functional Management)
• Executive Level Interaction and Communication (including internal and Customer stakeholders)
• Position requires an active DoD Secret Security Clearance, the ability to maintain the stated clearance, which requires U.S. Citizenship.
• ability to travel
• working extended hours

Nice To Haves

• Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) experience
• Experience on Foreign Military Sales Programs and/or Direct Commercial Sales
• Capture and Proposal Development
• Architecting mission system configurations to meet customer needs
• Ground, aircraft, space or shipborne mission system integration expertise
• Electronic Attack platform experience (G550 with modern electromagnetic warfare system)
• External Comms and Digital ICS experience
• PDM experience

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees