Senior Project Engineer

Leonardo DRS, Inc.•Danbury, CT

About The Position

The Senior Project Engineer is responsible for leading complex engineering projects from concept through completion, ensuring all technical efforts are delivered on time and within budget. This role serves as the technical lead, ensuring designs meet all customer specifications and requirements while balancing cost, schedule, and performance objectives. The Senior Project Engineer will collaborate cross-functionally with manufacturing, supply chain, program management, and customers, and will contribute significantly to proposal development and project planning. Additionally, this role will provide mentorship to junior engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
Minimum of 10 years of experience
Mastery of technologies and domain knowledge
Knowledge and experience in multiple engineering disciplines
Experience in project engineering, project management, or product management.
Ability to independently lead a team of engineers to complete a complex project or projects
U.S. Citizenship required.
Requires an active DOD security clearance or the ability to obtain such clearance within a reasonable time after commencement of employment.

Responsibilities

Responsible for leading all engineering efforts for a complex project or projects on time and budget
Ensure design compliance with all project requirements
Review customer specifications and requirements, and lead a project team to develop designs to best support them, including cost as a key design variable
Provide budget, cost and schedule input for design assignments
Communicate clearly (written and oral) with manufacturing, supply chain, program management and the customer as required
Participate heavily in preparation of the more complex and significant proposals
Interact with technical management, other professionals, technicians and support personnel to coordinate, recommend and confer regarding technical activities and progress
Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization
Attend appropriate engineering, customer or business meetings
Mentor and coach less experienced engineers
Serve as a communication pathway between the customer and the project team
Guide multidisciplinary teams to achieve project goals through relationships with line management and the Program Office
Balance customer demands against contract scope and schedule to facilitate high quality on-time deliverables