L3harris Technologies, Inc.
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Senior Specialist, Project Engineering
- Location
- Palm Bay, FL, US
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
Job Title: Senior Specialist, Project Engineering Job Code: 43617 Job Location: Palm Bay, FL Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off
Job Description:
L3Harris is seeking a dynamic technical leader who can drive EO/IR solutions design, development & production. They will have engineering responsibilities supporting the definition, design, development, integration & test of electro-optic systems for airborne, and ground, imaging surveillance systems. This role has both programmatic and technical responsibilities with challenging timelines, working to achieve a collective goal: deliver innovative solutions within schedule and budget constraints.
Essential Functions:
- Lead one or more cross functional teams typically with 4-10 members
- Deliver to program cost and schedule goals
- Plan and request team members in support of current and projected programs
- Help define total systems design, technology, and processes to meet mission requirements
- Coordinate across functional engineering areas to design, develop and test products, resolve compatibility and interface problems across all subsystems
- Perform project capacity planning in conjunction with other project leaders and functional managers
- Utilize department capabilities such as Simulation, Modeling, Design, Agile Development, Integration & Test
- Support business development activities including bid & proposal cost/schedule generation
- Evaluate performance measures and ensure system requirements are met
- Perform subsystem integration, technical risk assessment, technical planning, verification and validation, and supportability analyses
- Understand, implement, & audit engineering processes on programs and projects
- Create and update essential engineering documents including processes, specifications, reports, plans, technical memos, and presentations
- Represent engineering organization both internal and external to the organization
- Must be able to communicate clearly (written and verbal) to technical and non-technical personnel
- Ability to obtain US government clearance
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Management of engineering projects
- Broad knowledge of Risk Management tools and techniques
- Skilled knowledge of Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS).
- Understanding of the design and development of electro-optical/infrared systems and associated opto-mechanical technology
- Experience with Electrical, Optical, Mechanical, Software and Systems Engineering
- Front-end concept development for new products
- Model Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, & Agile Development
- System-level performance analysis (e.g., image analysis, thermal analysis, structural analysis, end-to-end performance, reliability analysis)
- Hardware/Software design, integration, testing, and troubleshooting
- Project Engineering/Program Management of aerospace products with multi-site development teams
- Understanding of defense products and platforms
- Engineering Project Management – A track record of managing diverse & distributed personnel developing complex technology. Knowledge of digital engineering & modeling techniques including how their use benefit program execution. An understanding of agile development environments. Ability to work seamlessly across multi-site development teams.
- Technical Acumen – Demonstrated through successful product and systems development experiences involving complex systems such as optics, detector arrays, digital video, processing electronics, pointing, stabilization, & control algorithms.
- Creative Solutions – Direct contribution to technical solutions that integrate multiple disciplines or technologies into non-obvious system architectures that provide meaningfully unique and differentiated capability; requires understanding of current and proposed competitive solutions, key performance indicators, and end-user mission objectives as well as understanding of interplay between technologies and engineering design.
- Department Planning – An understanding of both technical and market roadmaps to drive department capability growth plans.
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