Project Engineer (Skillbridge Eligible)

CAE • Binghamton, NY

21h

About The Position

To learn more about CAE Binghamton, our open positions and the Binghamton community, please visit our website at CAE Binghamton. Who We Are: CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness. CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed. This position is open to a possible DOD Skillbridge internship. We are seeking an ambitious engineering professional to join our team. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and gregarious professional with a passion for helping others and building positive relationships. This role is for a candidate who is self-motivated, exhibits a positive approach, has a strong work ethic and demonstrates strategic big picture thinking. This position will work closely with senior level program engineering management. At CAE, our mission is clear: to help make the world a safer place. For nearly 80 years, we’ve driven innovation in simulation, training, and mission readiness to support critical operations worldwide. By leveraging advanced technologies, we empower our customers to operate smarter, faster, and more sustainably. Join a purpose-driven organization where bold ideas are encouraged, collaboration drives progress, and your growth fuels our shared success. As a global leader in Civil Aviation and Defense & Security across 40 countries, we advance together as One CAE, fueled by thousands of passionate individuals operating in a culture where everyone can thrive. We hold ourselves accountable for building an inclusive community at every level, and our comprehensive benefits support you professionally and personally. Together, we are All For shaping a future where safety, sustainability, and inclusivity lead the way. Join us and be part of something bigger—where your impact reaches beyond CAE and helps shape the world of tomorrow.

Requirements

• BS degree in Engineering or equivalent experience required
• 8+ years of prior technical, project experience with both Traditional and Agile Program Execution methods working as a leader, developer, or technologist.
• Military or Defense industry experience
• 3+ years’ Experience with Clearcase, Clearquest, DOORs, and Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar
• Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance that has been granted or renewed in the last 5 years.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain Special Program Access prior to the start of employment.
• Flexibility to support occasional overtime, weekend work, shift work and site travel (CONUS)
• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.
• Demonstrated ability as an independent, proactive leader who works well within a team.
• Ability to build relationships, handle interpersonal interactions and cope with difficulties, both internally and externally.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to interface with senior civilian government, DoD and industry leaders.
• Strong analytical skills and demonstrate ability to formulate analysis from multiple resources, ask critical questions with customer and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to systematically measure performance using a risk management approach; identifying and weighing technical, schedule and cost risks associated with maintaining and upgrading the Training System.

Nice To Haves

• Experience within Modeling and Simulation industry.
• Experience performing as primary technical interface with DOD customers.
• Experience working with Business Development to cultivate follow-on work and new program opportunities.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices and popular tool sets for management, automation, and deployment (Atlassian, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, or others)
• Experience in Open Mission Systems/Universal Command and Control Interface (OMS/UCCI).
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience.
• Experience using modeling resources
• Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.)
• Experience using earned value management systems to manage a team's cost and schedule performance.
• Experience with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, GitHub, GitLab, AND/OR Jenkins.
• Demonstrated mentoring and coaching skills, and excellent 2-way communication skills (upward and downward).
• Time management and organizational skills to prioritize across concurrent program and functional responsibilities.
• Current Special Access Program (SAP) access.

Responsibilities

• Perform as the technical lead over the assigned engineering team on a program to include leading/participating in program peer, gate, and design reviews, supporting program management reviews (PMRs), and coordinating technical activity amongst the program IPTs.
• Perform weekly/monthly Cost Account Management (CAM) reviews with IPTs and be responsible for technical, cost, and schedule performance for the engineering content on a program.
• Communicate within and outside of the organization to influence leadership to accept new practices, approaches, and concepts.
• Receive engineering direction from and be accountable to a Program Engineering Manager (PEM), who has overall Program Engineering responsibility for successfully proposing, developing and delivering Product Line solutions.
• Be responsible for improving upon existing processes or establishing new systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation, including championing new concepts or technologies.
• Recommend tactics and strategies that will directly impact the achievement of overall business or functional results.
• Comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures.
• Be personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form.
• Not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know.
• Not divulge information outside company without management approval.
• Access and store all government and proprietary information electronically on company provided resources.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance
• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe
• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions
• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!
• Comprehensive benefits support you professionally and personally.

What This Job Offers

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