Senior Project Engineer - Ejection Seats (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2024-04-19

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HCO03: Mission Systems (Ejec Seating) 1225 Aeroplaza Drive , Colorado Springs, CO, 80916 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

Senior Project Engineer - Ejection Seats (Onsite)

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

Collins Ejection Seating is the leader in providing a safe and robust Ejection System to most USAF platforms.  Currently we are in the process of modernizing our fleets to the upgraded ACES 5 platform, providing a much safer ejection envelop to ensure those who are born to fly, can walk away.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ensures processes are adhered to by the engineering execution team and liaises with program management and other IPT leads to assure technical goals are achieved.

• Responsible for capturing lessons learned.

• Take ownership of technical project execution through Design & Development activities into Production

• Present project status to multiple levels of Leadership

• Work as part of a cohesive team with test engineering, product engineering, system engineering, program management and Operations

• Maintain and oversee Earned Value Management as a Cost Account Manager and Product Owner

• Breakdown Work Package and tasking via Jira Work Packages and Stories

• Align on an Agile execution for Systems, Test and Mechanical Design tasking

• Outstanding communication skills, especially cross-discipline

• Exhibit a positive attitude and great mentoring/delegating skills

• Strong interpersonal skills and skills facilitating working in a team environment 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (typically in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations OR Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years experience OR In absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience is required

• Agile Experience (Alm: Jira/Wiki experience required)

• EVMS/CAM Experience

• U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee or asylee) or eligible to obtain necessary export authorizations required.
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• Experience in Systems Requirement/artifact breakdown

• Experience in Test Plan and Execution Artifact breakdown

Preferred Qualifications:

• Collins ISAT and EVMS/CAM experience

• Collins ALM: Jira and Wiki experience

• Experience in Mechanical Design processes

• Experience in Enovia/PDM

Collins Aerospace Diversity & Inclusion Statement:

Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success. We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.

WE ARE REDEFINING AEROSPACE.

Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world – and access to Collins sites when their work requires in-person meetings.

Some of our competitive benefits package includes: 

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option