L3harris Technologies, Inc.
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Lead Project Engineer
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, US
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
Job Title: Lead Project Engineer Job Code: 46682 Job Location: Salt Lake City, UT Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off
Job Description:
Position Overview:
L3Harris is seeking a Lead Project Engineer to provide technical leadership and day-to-day execution for assigned Spitfire and LRASM/JASSM programs. The Project Engineer integrates engineering scope, technical performance, cost, schedule, risk, and customer commitments within the program baseline established by the Program Manager and customer.
Essential Functions:
- Serves as the engineering focal point among program management, control account managers, engineering functional leads, integrated product teams, operations, quality, supply chain, and line management
- Maintains the integrated engineering execution plan, including technical scope, staffing, schedules, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, and recovery actions; provides clear status to program leadership and customers
- Drives timely technical issue resolution, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and risk mitigation to protect product performance, quality, schedule, and customer commitments
- Establishes actionable execution metrics and intervention plans; partners with Program Management and Finance to manage engineering earned value, forecasts, estimate-to-complete, and cost and schedule variance
- Coordinates resources and required approvals across engineering disciplines; ensures configuration-controlled technical decisions, interfaces, and changes are evaluated and executed
- Leads preparation for and execution of engineering and program reviews, including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, qualification, acceptance, and flight readiness activities, as applicable
- Coordinates integration, verification, and production-readiness activities; communicates effectively with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders
- Comprehensive knowledge of project engineering, systems engineering, and integrated product development for complex hardware and software programs
- Demonstrated ability to translate program objectives into executable engineering plans and align cross-functional teams to the technical baseline
- Experience managing technical execution through development, integration, verification, production, delivery, and sustainment phases
- Working expertise in Earned Value Management, engineering cost and schedule estimation, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Experience coordinating across multiple engineering functions, manufacturing/operations, quality, supply chain, and program controls
- Experience communicating directly with government and industry customers and presenting technical status, risks, and decisions to technical and non-technical audiences
- Availability to travel 10-20% of the time to customer and supplier sites in support of technical meetings, reviews, integration, and verification activities
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.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Graduate degree in an engineering or technical discipline
- Active DoD security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one
- Experience with DoD missile, weapon-system, or similarly complex defense programs; LRASM/JASSM RFE experience and/or A3M/PTW preferred
- Experience with requirements management, configuration management, technical baseline control, systems integration, verification planning, and risk/opportunity management
- Experience leading engineering execution in a production or rate-readiness environment, including supplier coordination and nonconformance/corrective-action closure
- Proficiency with engineering planning and execution tools such as IMS, EVM systems, requirements management, and configuration-management tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, sound technical judgment, and the ability to lead through influence across a matrixed organization
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