Project Engineer, Sr.

AeroVironment

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About The Position

The Sr. Project Engineer is responsible for the success of project technical deliverables in collaboration with chief engineers, subsystem technical leads, engineering functional managers, and project managers. This role will report to the Director of Engineering for Hardware development and provide the technical management and coordination within product development to bring new products or product enhancements to market.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related Engineering field is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Minimum of 8 - 12 years of related technical experience in product development including at least 5 years of technical or program leadership
• Proven and demonstrated experience with full product development life cycle from concept to production with proven track-record of launching new products to production
• Proven and demonstrated execution of product development methods and best practices
• Experienced leading integrated product teams
• Strong technical knowledge and experience in order to understand and evaluate design and development activity across the engineering disciplines
• Ability to analyze the assigned project, break down work into functional disciplines and/or subsystems and create design/develop plans
• Strong organization, facilitation and negotiation skills
• ITAR U.S. Citizenship required.
• Must be willing to work on government contracts and have the ability to obtain a security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced technical degree preferred
• Familiarity with aerospace military/defense contracting environment highly desirable
• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and success to deliver products that meet requirements on time and on budget
• Able to excel in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, where small teams share a broad variety of duties
• Displays strong initiative and drive to accomplish goals and meet company objectives
• Takes ownership and responsibility for current and past work products
• Is committed to learning from mistakes and driven to improve and enhance performance of oneself, others, and the company
• Has effective problem-solving, analytical, interpersonal and communication skills
• Focuses on teamwork, collaboration and puts the success of the team above one's own interests

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams through design, analysis, prototype, integration, troubleshooting and verification and assist in new product launch to production
• Improve product development processes by employing lessons learned and best practices such as modeling and simulation, design reviews, DFMEA, Six Sigma/ lean product development, DFX, and customer feedbacks
• Coordinate cross functional teams through meetings and progress measurement activity which bring distinct, specific projects to completion both on time and within budget
• Drive development of subsystem specifications, characterization & performance evaluations in support of system requirements
• Manage Prototype builds, key suppliers, contractors and 3rd party design service providers/consultants
• Develop and/or improve tools and processes to efficiently generate and communicate engineering schedule and resource estimates as well as project technical status, risk & metrics
• Manage day-to-day technical aspects for the project, including facilitating cross-discipline decision making, design reviews, defect tracking, engineering tasks/schedule/status management, issue resolution and risk management activities
• Introduce methodologies and tools to improve project engineering excellence
• Use professional concepts & company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative & effective ways
• Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles
• Determine methods & procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel (Team Lead)
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level