L3Harris Technologies Lead, Project Engineer

Lead, Project Engineer at L3Harris Technologies summary:
The Lead Project Engineer oversees the full lifecycle of engineering projects, ensuring alignment with budget and schedule requirements while leading a project team to achieve customer satisfaction and productivity goals. With extensive experience in managing multi-discipline programs, risk assessment, and utilizing Earned Value management techniques, this role involves collaboration with resource managers and technical suppliers. Additionally, the engineer's expertise covers both software development and integration, specifically within high-stakes projects such as space telescope development.

Job Title: Lead, Project Engineer

Job Code: 18905

Job Location: Fort Wayne, IN

Job Description:

Responsible for full lifecycle Project Engineering support for a range of software and hardware development, assembly, and integration and test efforts.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for successfully leading a project team to meet customer requirements within allocated cost and schedule commitments.
• Develops, oversees, and coordinates the cost/schedule/technical aspects of an ongoing engineering project within the program guidelines set by the Program Manager and customer.
• Reviews status of engineering projects and budgets, manages schedules, drives execution, identifies opportunities, and delivers results through achieving payment milestones.
• Assesses engineering issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Identifies, tracks, mitigates, manages, and dispositions program-level risks and opportunities.
• Estimate resource and material needs for the project/product.
• Provides the coordination between resource managers/supervisors and ensures all necessary reviews and approvals are received.
• Understands how to develop a schedule using Earned Value (EV) and manage a project using the Earned Value Indicators on a DCMA surveilled program (highest rigor applied).
• Participate in small teams and perform a wide variety of tasks to drive execution (e.g., value stream mapping activities)
• Must have ability and willingness to work in a collaborative team environment on quick reaction projects and will have regular contact with customers.

Qualifications:

• 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
• IPTL/CAM Professional experience
• Experience with best practices for project engineering and program execution
• Experience in managing multi-discipline programs across multiple locations
• Experience in software development and integration programs
• Experience managing projects with total budgets of $70M+
• Experience in managing a team Integrated Product Team Leads (IPTL) and driving labor resources in a matrix organization
• Experience with Technical Supplier Management, Risk and Opportunity Management
• Active Secret Clearance
• Experience in space telescope, optical-mechanical development programs is required
• Must be able to get a security clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience or knowledge of Government contract acquisition lifecycle a plus
• Experience with management of design to cost activities
• Experience with program pursuit and proposal activities
• Experience with operations and/or manufacturing activities
• Experience in Root Cause Corrective Action process and techniques
• Program Management Institute - PMP certification desired
• Active TS/SCI preferred