Lead, Project Engineer

The Project Engineer holds technical responsibility and authority for the program under the authority from Engineering Leadership to execute assigned programs, as well as direct integration with the Program Manager (PM). This includes but is not limited to:

• Adhering to technical scope
• Remaining within Engineering Program budget; and,
• Ensuring alignment with overall Program Schedule

To this end, the individual Engineering Functional Task Leaders (Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Specialty Engineering, Logistic Engineering, Technical Publications, etc.) report to/and take directions from the PE for the assigned program operations.

The PE coordinates with the Functional Managers in the utilization of and Earned Value (EV) reporting via the Labor Tracking System (LTS) to ensure consistency between the Functional and Program roll-up relative to performance against schedule and budgeted work scope.

The PE is also responsible for program technical performance that extends beyond the "Engineering" functions, to ensure technical compliance within the total operations activities (i.e. extends to the interfaces of manufacturing and HD&L). Project Engineers are a key technical interface to Customers and have the responsibility and opportunity to interact at every phase of the program lifecycle

This PE must have experience in Reliability Engineering and Root Cause Analysis.  Must interface with customers on a regular basis, review system status and repair cycles.   

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in a technical field and a minimum of nine (9) years of prior relevant experience.  Graduate degree and a minimum of seven (7) years of prior related experience.  Advanced technical or management degrees are a plus. 
• Experience in one or more of the following areas is required:

• Previous experience in managing Engineering, Procurement, and Fabrication projects for military ISR platforms
• Program planning, guidance, and engineering execution within scope, schedule and budget
• Broad understanding of engineering processes and policies
• Bidding and Proposals which includes working with material and production estimating in that bidding process
• Battle Management Systems experience
• Design, Development and Test efforts
• Aero Engineering of any discipline, or Sustainment Engineering, or Systems Engineering (including Test Engineering); or Hardware Engineering; or Project Engineering
• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance, the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance, which requires U.S. Citizenship.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems experience
• Capture and Proposal Development
• Leadership Skills (i.e. Task, IPT Leader and/or Functional Management)
• Executive Level Interaction and Communication (including internal and Customer stakeholders)
• Ground, aircraft, space or shipborne mission system integration expertise
• COMINT and/or ELINT sensor experience
• Production and Logistics experience
• System troubleshooting and field support

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