Lead Project Engineer

Job Title: Lead, Project Engineer

Job Code: 46649

Job Location: Mason, OH – On Site

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

Job Description:

We are seeking a motivated and innovative individual to join our team as a Lead, Project Engineer. This position involves technical leadership and oversight of the requirements, design, analysis, development, test & evaluation of systems. Responsibilities include technical management of new and existing products, and new development project planning and execution. This role will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplined engineering team on complex projects at various phases of project life cycle. Work closely with the Program Manager, engineering team, manufacturing, quality and other departments as necessary to expedite project completion and most importantly meet the customer expectations.

Essential Functions:

• Ability to obtain a US security clearance
• Serves as lead on technical proposals and program execution
• Responsible for managing and directing program management teams with the cost, schedule, technical, and contractual performance requirements of a complex technical program portfolio through the life-cycle phases of development, implementation, and operations. This includes utilizing Earned Value Management, maintaining an integrated master schedule, managing development and testing to a technical baseline, and maintaining an active and proactive risk management program. Responsible for budget management and financial execution of the portfolio. 
• Requires comprehensive level knowledge of job area. May have in-depth knowledge of project management.
• Ensures life-cycle process adherence
• Proactively manages risk, including identification and mitigation plans, and issue elevation and resolution 
• Effectively communicates status to stakeholders, including organizational leadership, multifunctional teams, and the customer 
• Solves problems with a calm sense of urgency 
• Demonstrates operational discipline and ownership 
• Maintains scope control through disciplined change management 
• Experience in organizing and leading Engineering, contractual, financial, Operations, and other cross functional areas to provide total Program life-cycle management. Experience managing projects with budgets of $50M+ and a total portfolio >$200M. Experience leading geographically diverse program teams comprised of Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) with membership from multiple Company and potentially partner organizations.
• Experience in development and production programs is required.
• Ability to work under consultative direction against annual goals to manage large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work well within and outside of the organization including customers, vendors, and leadership with minimal oversight
• Demonstrated complex problem solving and decision making — Able to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions; able to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution
• Recommends tactics and strategies that directly impact the achievement of overall business or functional results  
• Program planning, guidance, and engineering execution within scope, schedule and budget
• Broad understanding of engineering processes and policies
• Recent experience with team leadership experience is required  
• Must have experience as the technical lead on technically complex projects
• Must have recent experience as lead on technical proposals, including ownership of the engineering portion of basis of estimate.
• Must have Research & Development and Engineering Development & Manufacturing (EM&D) program experience
• Brings passion for innovation, a sophisticated understanding of circuit level electronic equipment and systems, and the ability to further advance L3Harris Space & Sensors Technology Center  
• Coordinates all technical aspects of the project to meet scope, schedule and design to cost goals  
• Uses project management best practices and industry standards for resource planning, personnel oversight, and cost/schedule tracking  
• Ensures that all engineering-related internal processes are followed by the project design team  
• Interfaces effectively with people at all levels and from diverse technical backgrounds  
• Creates environment of inclusivity and respect as well as strives to build diverse teams and develop talent.  
• Ability to establish a culture of trust, open communications, data driven decision making, customer focus and relentless continuous improvement.
• Work with functional leadership to ensure that all resources such as engineering, manpower, production, and facilities are available to support the program.

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.
• 5+ years of experience with the implementation and execution using Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) and employment of applicable metrics.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Military customer experience is desired 
• PMP certification is desired 
• Previous experience as a control account manager (CAM) in an EVMS environment is desired  
• Previous experience with electro-optical/infrared sensors is desired
• Previous experience leading a development team for development of an electronic unit is desired 
• Previous experience with agile development is desired
• Previous experience in technical management of supplier development efforts is desired

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