Associate Project Engineer

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Job Title:

Associate Project Engineer

Reporting To:

Mgr., SDG Staff Engineering

Work Schedule:

Onsite – Buffalo, NY

Moog Space and Defense Group is projecting significant growth driven by high levels of U.S. Department of Defense growth.  The East Aurora, NY Hypersonic Vehicle Systems (HVS) Team supplies a variety of complex integrated guidance, navigation, and control (iGNC) systems that can include Electro-Mechanical Actuation Systems, Thrust Vector Control Systems, Thermal Batteries, Attitude Control Systems, and a Multi-Effector Controller for hypersonic vehicles. This specific role will focus on the Multi-Effector Controller (MEC) and its technology development, qualification, and production insertion.

The Associate Project Engineer position is an over-arching role with accountability for ensuring the technical and engineering execution performance over the full product lifecycle.  Depending on the need, the role is intended to be tailored to provide oversight for either (1) multiple smaller systems programs to multiple customers or (2) a more complex system program with development efforts through NPI phases and into low/full rate production. This role will also provide mentoring for younger project engineers as well as support on business initiatives and improvements. In this role you will report to the Staff Engineering Manager for the HVS engineering group.  The position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. DoD Security Clearance and access to U.S. export-controlled information.

Embracing the mindset of “One Moog Team”, the Associate Project Engineer is committed to leading a team of highly skilled, cross-disciplinary technical professionals, driving the creation of innovative solutions to technical challenges while upholding our commitments to both internal and external customers, supporting a Sr. and IPT/Staff Project engineer. This is facilitated by cultivating an atmosphere that values each individual’s unique contributions by encouraging open collaboration, fostering mutual trust and respect, and emphasizing accountability. The Associate Project Engineer is the customer’s primary technical point of contact (TPOC) and is responsible for maintaining the proper balance between the customer’s satisfaction and Moog’s contracted scope of work. The Associate Project Engineer is responsible for ensuring the technical compliance of critical system attributes like safety, reliability, performance, and producibility for Moog products in development and/or production in support of a given customer or platform.  She/he coordinates the technical interactions between Design, System Architecture, and Product Support Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality organizations.

As an Associate Project Engineer, you will:

• Support the full lifecycle of the program, with a heavy emphasis on two areas: (1) ensuring development programs are well-positioned for deterministic execution with technically sound initial assumptions, risk balancing, and structures in place for effective change management; (2) providing technical direction to the customers as Moog navigates ambiguous requirements. Ensuring that Moog is positioned well for system content while still satisfying the mission needs of our customers; and (3) provide support for any DVT, qualification, flight test, and early production problems as the main TPOC.

• Ensure technical solutions and initiatives are fully integrated into business objectives, priorities, and technology roadmaps, by aligning closely with division and site leadership to assess present and future business needs and direction.

• Act in full coordination with Functional Engineering, Product Engineering, the Office of Chief Engineers, and Business Unit/Program leadership to ensure New Product Introduction (NPI) efforts are planned and executed successfully, effectively managed through production ramp-up challenges, and sustained through the entire production run. This will also involve multiple SDG site interactions for resource support and product support.

• Deliver on the technical, scope, budget, and schedule commitments made to our customers for development and production programs.  Have a deep understanding of earned value management (EVM) techniques and project management fundamentals like critical path analysis, risk/scope/change management, product cost vs. price, etc. Strong Ability to be the technical lead across multipl