Title:  Lead, Project Engineer

Job Title: Lead, Project Engineering

Job Code:  25319

Job Location: Fort Wayne, IN

Job Description:

L3Harris has an immediate opening for a Project Engineer to lead the execution of Space System project teams and to meet customer requirements within allocated cost and schedule. Lead the implementation and execution of the project.

Essential Functions:

• As control account manager (CAM), manage monthly variance analysis reporting, establish CAM notebook process and development.
• Work closely with Project Engineering Group Leads to ensure best practices are followed. 
• Oversee the development of the cost/schedule/technical aspects of new development projects and sustainment projects.
• Provide leadership to project teams to manage project execution to meet customer-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Review status of projects and budgets, manages schedules, and prepares status reports.
• Work closely with the Product Line manager to identify project risk and with the Chief System Engineer to ensure risk management mitigation strategies and events are being planned and executed correctly
• Use Earned Value (EV) to guide the success of a project.
• Support proposals for new work in a growing business.
• Manages staffing procurement and performance.
• Manages subcontractors on the program control accounts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 8 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.
• Ability to obtain US Government security clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience in Government contracts and contract organization.
• Experience with Project Engineering, EVMS, and program execution and developing concept solutions through proposal submittal/evaluation.
• Experience managing projects with budgets of $10M+.
• Experience leading a multi-disciplined team of engineers.
• Experience in Root Cause Corrective Action process and techniques.
• Experience across a product engineering lifecycle.
• Experience in influencing changes to practices, processes and approaches to improve execution across an organization.
• Experience with program pursuit and proposal activities.
• Experience in optical space telescope operations/engineering.