Sr. Specialist Project Engineer

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Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Project Engineering- Power Systems

Job Code: 42582

Job Location: Camden, NJ (On-Site)

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

L3Harris Technologies Power Systems is an agile defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions for the US Navy Shipbuilding programs. With capabilities in ship control systems, manufacturing and turn-key ship overhauls that meet customers’ mission-critical needs.

Job Description:

The Sr. Specialist Project Engineer is responsible for the technical success of the project output within the constraints of the allocated budget and schedule.  This position’s role specifically is the technical management and coordination of engineering resources to achieve compliance with the customer technical requirements in the field of AC and DC power distribution and protection products. Product maturity ranges from refreshes of fielded systems to new product introduction. 

The position operates primarily as an individual contributor with occasional assignments as leader of a small multi-discipline team.   

Typical day to day responsibilities would be driving and managing the creation, review, and submittal of project artifacts such as plans, procedures, reports, design documents, and technical manuals. All major reviews are owned by this position. This position will work intimately with engineers to provide real-time support and guidance with respect to design, testing, or system requirements.  To perform effectively, it is expected that this position be knowledgeable of system operations and understand end user needs.  This position requires a person that is highly detail oriented, structured, well-organized, and can effectively communicate large amounts of data succinctly.

Essential Functions:

• Engineering Development
  • Drive good development processes and engineering best practices.
  • Follow methodologies and tools provided to improve engineering excellence.
• Proposal Development
  • Participate in and/or lead the proposal process for technical WBS definition, cost estimation, risk estimation, and technical schedule creation.
  • Interpret RFP requirements and lead the creation of proposal technical approach and content.
• Project Management
  • Lead detailed technical WBS definition, cost estimation, risk estimation, and technical schedule creation.
  • Manage day-to-day technical aspects of the project, including cross-functional decision making, task/schedule management, issue resolution/escalation, communication, requirements management, and risk management activities. Activities overseen include software, digital, electrical power, mechanical, configuration management, and systems engineering.
  • Participate in and/or lead activities to define system architecture and associated technical requirements.
  • Conduct design reviews to ensure that product elements meet requirements (e.g., ConDr, SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, SVR, peer reviews).
  • Lead definition of technical development plans (e.g., HW Development Plan, SW Development Plan, Integration Test Pl