Senior Specialist Project Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Project Engineering- Power Systems

Job Code: 37341

Job Location: Camden, NJ (On-Site)

Schedule: 9/80 Regular (Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off)

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

About L3Harris Technologies:

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 47,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

L3Harris Technologies Power Systems is an agile defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions for the US Navy Shipbuilding programs. With capabilities in ship control systems, manufacturing and turn-key ship overhauls that meet customers’ mission-critical needs.

Job Description:

The Sr. Specialist Project Engineer is responsible for the technical success of the project output within the constraints of the allocated budget and schedule.  This position’s role specifically is the technical management and coordination of engineering resources to achieve compliance with the customer technical requirements in the field of AC and DC power distribution and protection products. Product maturity ranges from refreshes of fielded systems to new product introduction. 

The position operates primarily as an individual contributor with occasional assignments as leader of a small multi-discipline team.   

Typical day to day responsibilities would be driving and managing the creation, review, and submittal of project artifacts such as plans, procedures, reports, design documents, and technical manuals. All major reviews are owned by this position. This position will work intimately with engineers to provide real-time support and guidance with respect to design, testing, or system requirements.  To perform effectively, it is expected that this position be knowledgeable of system operations and understand end user needs.  This position requires a person that is highly detail oriented, structured, well-organized, and can effectively communicate large amounts of data succinctly.

Essential Functions:

• Engineering Development
  • Drive good development processes and engineering best practices.
  • Follow methodologies and tools provided to improve engineering excellence.
• Proposal Development
  • Participate in and/or lead the proposal process for technical WBS definition, cost estimation, risk estimation, and technical schedule creation.
  • Interpret RFP requirements and lead the creation of proposal technical approach and content.
• Project Management
  • Lead detailed technical WBS definition, cost estimation, risk estimation, and technical schedule creation.
  • Manage day-to-day technical aspects of the project, including cross-functional decision making, task/schedule management, issue resolution/escalation, communication, requirements management, and risk management activities. Activities overseen include software, digital, electrical power, mechanical, configuration management, and systems engineering.
  • Participate in and/or lead activities to define system architecture and associated technical requirements.
  • Conduct design reviews to ensure that product elements meet requirements (e.g., ConDr, SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, SVR, peer reviews).
  • Lead definition of technical development plans (e.g., HW Development Plan, SW Development Plan, Integration Test Plan).
  • Lead efforts for unit testing, integration testing, verification testing, and pre-production (qualification) testing including efforts for defect tracking and correction.
  • Support technical efforts for upgrade requests and change management for released products.
  • Work with functional management to obtain and manage proper engineering staffing.
  • Manage engineering budget and evaluate engineering Estimate to Complete.  Identify to the Program Manager any cost growth and reasons for growth.
  • Coordinate hand-off to Operations and Field Support efforts (in/out of house).
• Ability to obtain and maintain US DOD Secret Security Clearance, which requires US Citizenship.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in related Engineering/Science field and a minimum of 6 years of prior related experience,
  • Or, master’s degree in progress in related Engineering/Science field and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience,
  • Or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of prior related technical and project management experience.
• 4+ years of experience of broad-based technical knowledge within a similar position in order to understand and evaluate design and development activity across the engineering functions.
• 4+ years of experience in managing the full life cycle of hardware/software products from concept to production including system architecture, design implementation, integration, and verification/validation.
• 4+ years of experience developing engineering processes such as lean product development, Design for X (DFX), Six Sigma concepts, product life cycle management, and systems engineering.
• 4+ years presenting technical presentations to leadership.
• 4+ years of experience analyzing the assigned project, breakdown work into functional disciplines and plan out a means for the work to be accomplished. 

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Preferred emphasis in Electrical Power Conversion Engineering, Systems Engineering experience highly desired. 
• Specific experience in power distribution, generation and/or conversion equipment development preferred.
• Proficient in MS Office suite with emphasis in excel and project.
• Familiarity with the military/defense contracting environment.
• Strong practical organization, facilitation and arbitration skills.
• Proficient in CAD systems preferably SolidWorks.
• Experience with PLM tools (Agile).
• Experience with MRP systems (Cost Point).

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is $110,000 - $200,000. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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