Project Engineer Senior II

Ultra•Columbia City, IN

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Project Engineers ensure mission success by delivering technically sound, executable solutions across development and production programs. They enable confident program capture and execution by owning the technical foundation of proposals—defining clear scopes, building structured WBS frameworks, and producing credible cost estimates with defensible bases. In execution, they lead engineering efforts and work packages to meet mission requirements, driving alignment, managing resources, and ensuring delivery within cost, schedule, and quality constraints.

Requirements

Bachelor degree in Engineer or related field
9+years of experience in a complex engineering environment
Ability to obtain and maintain US Security Clearance. (Note: Security clearances are granted to US Citizens)
Technical leadership experience with 5-10 member teams
Must possess excellent oral presentations skills
Able to manage and maintain the engineering team's focus on budget, schedule, and technical execution
Good communication skills, writing skills, and teamwork skills are required
Available to travel 10%-20%
Proficient in the use of collaboration tools to support the distributed nature of the work
Demonstrated leadership skills
Demonstrated planning and organization skills
Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite of tools and Microsoft Project
Demonstrated ability to communicate issues, impacts, and corrective actions
Demonstrated ability to understand and apply project leadership principles including SPI/CPI, Earned Value, Cost Account Management (CAM)

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent with nine years’ experience
DoD Secret or higher security clearance
Experience with DoD production program execution

Responsibilities

Develops solutions and solves complex problems to deliver engineering projects on-time, on-quality, and on-budget directly impacting positive project outcomes for a variety of circumstances
Writes reports and presents work carried out at peer and design reviews
Develops processes for team and influences decisions by providing technical advice to team(s)
Plans, authorizes, and monitors the engineering work (including providing strong leadership to ensure all events occur as planned)
Oversees performance, cost, scope and schedule for all engineering efforts (including efforts that are subcontracted)
Develops and maintains engineering plans as required by the project
Identifies, develops, analyzes, and reports engineering project performance measures
Conducts monthly engineering status reviews and provides material for the monthly program reviews
Accountable for the technical content of bid and proposal activities including Proposal Technical Volume content, WBS structure and dictionary, as well as cost estimation and basis of estimates
Remains current on trends and emerging technologies and tools
May estimate engineering packages of work to identify dependencies and ensure successful execution upon contract award.