Lead Project Engineer

Job Title: Lead, Project Engineering 

Job Code: 47510

Job Location: Waco, TX

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 actively seeking a Lead Project Engineer (PE) to support the bid and execution of complex system integration efforts on airborne platforms for aerospace and Department of Defense (DoD) programs. In this role, the candidate will be responsible for ensuring program technical development meets all technical, cost, and schedule requirements. 

The Project Engineer provides technical direction to Engineering Functional Task Leaders (Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Specialty Engineering, Logistics Engineering, Technical Publications, etc.) for assigned program activities. Project Engineers serve as key technical interfaces to customers throughout the program lifecycle.

The Project Engineering candidate will also help with the capture of new business and development of bid estimates and technical responses.

Essential Functions:

• Provide engineering leadership to a cross-functional team to resolve aircraft design and systems integration challenges.
• Serve as the primary technical focal point for assigned programs, ensuring alignment with customer, regulatory, cost, schedule, and performance requirements.
• Lead development efforts on a commercial-military derivative aircraft program with FAA and military certification requirements. Overall program scope includes CNS/ATM architecture, mission systems, stores/munitions, and aircraft system updates.
• Develop and manage project plans, technical baselines, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, and resource forecasts.
• Coordinate the review and approval of engineering deliverables, analyses, test plans, technical reports, interface documents, and design changes with the responsible engineering leads.
• Identify and manage technical risks, opportunities, dependencies, and mitigation actions throughout the program lifecycle.
• Drive resolution of complex engineering issues, root cause investigations, nonconformances, and corrective and preventive actions.
• Lead requirements, preliminary design, critical design, and test readiness reviews, technical interchange meetings, and milestone reviews with internal stakeholders, customers, and suppliers.
• Track engineering performance metrics and brief program technical status, risks, and actions monthly to senior engineering leadership.
• Track engineering cost and schedule performance, explain variances, and lead recovery plans to meet program targets.
• Lead cross-functional bid, proposal, and program planning efforts, including basis of estimate (BOE) development and technical responses to customer ROMs, RFIs, and RFPs.
• Set up and maintain bid tools and track completion of proposal inputs and reviews.
• Ensure program execution and bid and proposal development follow engineering processes and policies.
• Ensure compliance with applicable performance, reliability, and safety requirements.

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 12 years of prior related experience.
• Demonstrated experience in planning and coordinating software development, maintenance, or sustainment activities within scope, schedule, and budget.
• Experience in engineering processes, with experience applying software life-cycle, configuration management, and change control practices.
• Experience supporting bid and proposal development.
• Relevant experience in one or more of the following disciplines:
  • Software Engineering or Software Sustainment
  • Software Integration and Test Engineering
  • Systems Engineering for software-intensive systems
  • Project Engineering supporting software development or sustainment
• An active DoD Secret Security Clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in leadership by being a Task Leader, IPT Leader, and/or Functional Manager, or other similar leadership roles
• Demonstrated experience in communicating with internal and external Customer stakeholders

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