Lead – Project Engineering

Job Title: Lead, Project Engineer

Job Code: 27903

Job Location:Greenvillle, TX

Schedule: 9/80

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.

Job Description:

The Project Engineer (PE) holds technical responsibility and authority for the program under the authority from Engineering Leadership to execute assigned programs, as well as direct integration with the Program Manager (PM).

This includes but is not limited to:

• Adhering to technical scope;
• Remaining within Engineering Program budget; and,
• Ensuring alignment with overall Program Schedule

To this end, the individual Engineering Functional Task Leaders (Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Specialty Engineering, Logistic Engineering, Technical Publications, etc.) report to/and take direction from the PE for the assigned program operations.

The PE coordinates with the Functional Managers in the utilization of and Earned Value (EV) reporting via the Labor Tracking System (LTS) to ensure consistency between the Functional and Program roll-up relative to performance against schedule and budgeted work scope.

The PE is also responsible for program technical performance that extends beyond the "Engineering" functions, to ensuring technical compliance within the total operations activities (i.e. extends to the interfaces of manufacturing and HD&L). Project Engineers are a key technical interface to Customers and have the responsibility and opportunity to interact at every phase of the program lifecycle.

Essential Functions:

• Secret Clearance with ability to achieve TS SCI if deemed necessary, ability to travel, & working extended hours
• Demonstrated leadership

Qualifications:

• Active DoD Secret Security clearance, the ability to maintain the clearance, which requires U.S. Citizenship
• 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. Advanced technical or management degrees are a plus.
• Demonstrated experience with the one or more of the following areas is required:
  • Managing Engineering, Procurement, and Fabrication projects for military ISR platforms
  • Program planning, guidance, and engineering execution within scope, schedule and budget
  • Engineering processes and policies
  • Bidding and Proposals which includes working with material and production estimating in that bidding process
  • Mission System Installation on Airborne Platforms
  • Design, Development and Test efforts
  • Aero Engineering of any discipline, or Sustainment Engineering, or Systems Engineering (including Test Engineering); or Hardware Engineering; or Project Engineering;
  • Leadership (Task, IPT Leader and/or Functional Management)
• Demonstrated ability to engage with internal/external stakeholders at all levels including executive

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems experience
• Experience on Foreign Military Sales Programs or Direct Commercial Sales
• Capture and Proposal Development
• Architecting mission system configurations to meet customer needs
• Ground, aircraft, space or shipborne mission system integration expertise
• COMINT and/or ELINT sensor experience
• Antenna placement and phased array architectures
• PDM experience

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