Specialist - Project Engineer

Job Title: Specialist, Project Engineering 

Job Code: 47503

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 Specialist, Project Engineering (PE) to support software sustainment for a program. Working under general supervision, the candidate will manage assigned sustainment projects or work packages and coordinate technical, cost, and schedule activities for software maintenance, defect resolution, testing, and releases within approved program plans. 

The Project Engineer works with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Integration and Test, Configuration Management, Cybersecurity, and other Engineering Functional Task Leaders to coordinate assigned sustainment work. The candidate communicates project status, explains processes, and supports customer and supplier discussions as needed, with guidance from senior project engineers and engineering leads.

The candidate also supports the capture of new business by developing assigned bid estimates and technical responses in coordination with engineering leads.

Essential Functions:

• Coordinate cross-functional engineering activities for software maintenance, defect resolution, approved enhancements, and releases within assigned sustainment projects.
• Serve as the technical coordination point for assigned software sustainment projects or work packages, working with engineering leads to meet customer, regulatory, cost, schedule, and performance requirements.
• Manage assigned software sustainment work packages on a commercial-military derivative aircraft program with FAA and military certification requirements. Coordinate sustainment of software associated with CNS/ATM architecture, mission systems, stores/munitions, and aircraft systems.
• Develop and maintain sustainment plans, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, and resource estimates for assigned projects; coordinate software baseline updates with engineering leads and configuration management.
• Coordinate review and approval of software requirements, change requests, release plans, test procedures, test results, and technical documentation with responsible engineering leads.
• Identify and track sustainment risks, dependencies, and mitigation actions, including software defects, interfaces, supportability, and release readiness; escalate impacts to scope, cost, schedule, or technical performance.
• Coordinate assessment and prioritization of software defects and change requests with engineering leads; track root cause investigations and corrective actions, escalating complex technical issues.
• Prepare technical inputs and coordinate actions for software requirements and design reviews, test readiness reviews, technical interchange meetings, and release readiness reviews.
• Track engineering performance metrics and prepare status reports on assigned work, including defect status, test progress, release milestones, risks, and actions, for engineering leads and program management.
• Monitor cost and schedule performance for assigned software sustainment work, analyze variances, and recommend recovery actions in coordination with engineering leads.
• Support sustainment proposals and program planning by developing assigned basis of estimate (BOE) inputs and technical responses to customer ROMs, RFIs, and RFPs.
• Maintain assigned bid tools and track completion of proposal inputs and reviews.
• Execute assigned sustainment activities in accordance with software life-cycle, configuration management, and engineering processes; recommend practical improvements to planning, reporting, and issue tracking.
• Coordinate with engineering leads to address software quality, reliability, safety, cybersecurity, and certification requirements for assigned sustainment work.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 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:

• Experience coordinating software defect resolution, regression testing, release planning, or configuration management.
• Experience supporting software sustainment on aircraft or mission systems and communicating with customer or supplier stakeholders.

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