Title:  Lead, Project Engineer

Job Title: Lead, Project Engineer
Job Code: 32944
Job Location: Melbourne, FL
Work Scheule: 9/80 (Every other Friday off!)

Job Description: 
•    Responsible for full lifecycle Project Engineering support for a range of software and hardware development, assembly, and integration and test efforts.
•    Responsible for successfully leading a project team to meet customer requirements within allocated cost and schedule commitments.
•    Develops, oversees, and coordinates the cost/schedule/technical aspects of an ongoing engineering project within the program guidelines set by the Program Manager and customer.
•    Reviews status of engineering projects and budgets, manages schedules, drives execution, identifies opportunities, and delivers results through achieving payment milestones.
•    Assesses engineering issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives.
•    Leads Agile/scrum methodology on the program
•    Identifies, tracks, mitigates, manages, and dispositions program-level risks and opportunities.
•    Estimate resource and material needs for the project/product.
•    Provides the coordination between resource managers/supervisors and ensures all necessary reviews and approvals are received.
•    Understands how to develop a schedule using Earned Value (EV) and manage a project using the Earned Value Indicators on a DCMA surveilled program (highest rigor applied).
•    Participate in small teams and perform a wide variety of tasks to drive execution (e.g., value stream mapping activities)
•    Must have ability and willingness to work in a collaborative team environment on quick reaction projects and will have regular contact with customers.
•    Experience in the following engineering areas: Technical background in ground-to-space communications. Agile/Scrum methodology

Essential Functions: 
•    Program baselining, planning, IBR process experience. Ground satellite operations experience
•    7 years of experience in managing a team Integrated Product Team Leads (IPTL) and driving labor resources in a matrix organization

Qualifications: 
•    Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience, or Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
•    6 years of experience with best practices for project engineering and program execution
•    6 years of experience in managing multi-discipline programs across multiple locations
•    4 years of experience in software development and integration programs
•    4 years of experience managing projects with total budgets of $70M+
•    TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly required.  

Preferred Additional Skills:
•    Experience or knowledge of Government contract acquisition lifecycle a plus
•    Experience with management of design to cost activities
•    Experience with program pursuit and proposal activities
•    Experience with operations and/or manufacturing activities
•    Experience in Root Cause Corrective Action process and techniques
•    Experience with Technical Supplier Management, Risk and Opportunity Management
•    Experience in space ground architecture