Senior Manager - Project and Chief Engineering

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Manager, Project and Chief Engineering

Job Code: 45999

Job Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking a Senior Manager of Project and Chief Engineering to lead a mission-critical communications portfolio. This role requires a seasoned leader with proven experience to integrate project execution, chief engineering direction, customer engagement, and proposal strategy across a highly complex operational environment. This role is 100% on-site in Salt Lake City.

Position Overview:

The Senior Manager serves as the senior Project and Chief engineer across a diverse portfolio of communications and networked mission systems. This leader is accountable for technical decisions that directly affect mission readiness, operational availability, customer confidence, and integrated execution across sustainment, expansion, modernization, and new development activities.

The role operates with broad independent judgment across a portfolio supporting critical communications capabilities. The position aligns multiple engineering disciplines, maintains visibility into budget and schedule performance, and makes program-level tradeoffs across technical, cost, schedule, and mission risk while directly leading a team of Project and Chief Engineers.

Essential Functions:

• Serve as the Senior Project and Chief engineering expert across a portfolio of critical communications and networked mission systems.
• Represent L3Harris to government customer stakeholders through recurring meetings, ad hoc technical engagements, and formal program reviews.
• Integrate systems engineering, software sustainment, test, logistics, configuration management, repairs, cybersecurity coordination, DMSMS and obsolescence planning, and modernization strategy into a unified execution approach.
• Provide integrated direction across sustainment, expansion, modernization, and new development activities supporting multiple critical airborne and ground mission platforms.
• Coordinate concurrent technical activities associated with system deployments, modernization initiatives, and expansion efforts as a cohesive portfolio.
• Lead proposal strategy and technical solution development for future contract pursuits and adjacent growth opportunities while sustaining day-to-day execution of the operational network.
• Maintain visibility into budget and schedule performance and make program-level tradeoffs across technical, cost, schedule, and mission risk.
• Brief customers and internal executive leadership on status, risks, issues, recommendations, and recovery actions with credibility, clarity, and authority.
• Hold teams accountable to a common technical baseline and present a unified engineering and program management posture to the customer.
• Experience leading complex multi-million-dollar programs, including direct responsibility for cost, schedule, and technical performance metrics.
• Experience with system integration, hardware and software integration, test execution, and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated ability to lead project execution, chief engineering direction, and engineering teams across mission-critical, multi-program portfolios.
• Experience aligning multiple engineering disciplines and coordinating complex activities across multiple program elements.
• Ability to exercise broad independent judgment and make program-level tradeoffs across technical, cost, schedule, and mission risk.
• Experience serving as a technical reviewer for business-area engineering documents.
• Ability to support approximately 10% travel.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 12 years of prior relevant engineering experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related engineering experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related engineering experience.
• Active US Secret Security Clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience supporting critical communications systems and networks.
• Experience interfacing directly with government customers and executive stakeholders through formal reviews, working sessions, and technical engagements.
• Experience leading follow-on contract strategy, proposal support, and technical solution development for large mission portfolios.
• Experience overseeing portfolios with significant customer visibility, mission readiness requirements, long-term growth objectives, and complex execution risk.
• Experience maintaining a common technical baseline and customer confidence across portfolio-wide execution.