Lead, Project Engineer

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing 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.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Description:

Job Title: Lead, Project Engineer

Job Code: 42358

Job Location: Clifton, NJ

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

Responsible for full lifecycle Project Engineering support for a range of software and hardware development, assembly, integration, test, and production efforts.

Essential Functions:

•      Responsible for successfully leading a large, cross-disciplinary, project team to meet customer requirements within allocated cost and schedule commitments.

•      Develops, oversees, and coordinates the cost/schedule/technical aspects of an ongoing engineering project within the program guidelines set by the Program Manager and customer.

•      Reviews status of engineering projects and budgets, manages schedules, drives execution, identifies opportunities, and delivers results through achieving payment milestones.

•      Assesses engineering issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives.

•      Identifies, tracks, mitigates, manages, and dispositions program-level risks and opportunities.

•      Estimate resource and material needs for the project/product.

•      Provides the coordination between resource managers/supervisors and ensures all necessary reviews and approvals are received.

•      Understands how to develop a schedule using Earned Value (EV) and manage a project using the Earned Value Indicators on a DCMA surveilled program (highest rigor applied).

•      Participate in large teams and perform a wide variety of tasks to drive execution (e.g., value stream mapping activities).

•      Must have ability and willingness to work in a collaborative team environment on quick reaction projects and will have regular contact with customers.

•      Reports/communicates program performance to senior level management, as well as externally, to the program customer.

•      Leads engineering proposal efforts for follow-on Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), and new program pursuits.

•      Work under the direction of an Enterprise level Project Engineer, to meet business area objectives.

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.
• Active Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• IPTL/CAM Professional experience
• Experience with best practices for project engineering and program execution
• Experience in managing multi-discipline programs
• Experience in engineering development, integration, production/manufacturing programs (inclusive of SW, HW, FW)
• Experience managing projects with total budgets of $50M+
• Experience in managing a team Integrated Product Team Leads (IPTL) and driving labor resources in a matrix organization
• Experience with Technical Supplier Management, Risk and Opportunity Management
• Experience with program pursuit and proposal activities, including cost estimation and technical proposal management
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