Title:  Senior Specialist, Project Engineer

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Project Engineering

Job Code: 27951

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80; Every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris Corporation is seeking a Senior Specialist, Project Engineer for the Melbourne/Palm Bay, FL location.  This is an opportunity to take on unique challenges, expand your skills and experience, and contribute to mission critical systems solutions that help protect the U.S.A. and our allies, both Domestic and Internationally. You will join a great team of talented professionals who take a collaborative approach and enjoy working together.

Essential Functions:

• Conduct and lead Peer Reviews and Table-Top Reviews.
• Work with the technical team to identify, mitigate, and close program risks.
• Serve as the technical lead of the project with cost and schedule responsibilities.
• Develops, presents, and delivers comprehensive presentations to the project team, upper management, and customer personnel in a clear and concise manner.
• Successful startup activity, including staffing, robust mitigation plans and establishment of the technical baseline and change management process.
• Planning and management of the products / projects on schedule and within budget constraints.
• Monitors the product/project from initiation through completion and/or customer acceptance.
• Develops, manages, and maintains all aspects of project-level risks, including mitigation, costing, and planning.
• Establishment and execution of detailed integrated master schedules.
• Develops, monitors, and statuses detailed MS Project schedules.
• Uses Earned Value Management System (EVMS) reports to manage project performance.
• Review of earned value metrics such as CPI, SPI, TCPI, and ETC to drive program focus.
• Estimate resource and material needs for the project/product.
• Ensures that products/projects delivered meet customer requirements and specifications.
• Driving a culture of continuous improvement as evidenced by executed improvement projects.
• Employee engagement to meet project needs.
• Maintaining forecasted demand signal on resource needs and partnering with the EMs, talent acquisition and supply chain on development of plans for accomplishing the engineering work.
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills in a technical information environment; interact, anticipate, and respond to customer needs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 6 years of relevant experience or a Graduate Degree with 4 years of relevant experience
• U.S. citizenship required due to defense contract requirements. Ability to obtain DOD Secret Security Clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience executing throughout the project lifecycle including requirements flow down and allocation, design, development, test, and sell-off.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in a technical information environment.
• Demonstrated Earned value / Cost account management experience, with cost and schedule responsibility experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work to deadlines and prioritize workload appropriately.
• Demonstrated methodical approach to their work.
• Broad Engineering experience across multiple disciplines.
• Proficient with MS project and other MS Office packages.
• Functional management experience or direct involvement in resource management forecasting and placement.
• Proficient in using DOORS for requirements management.
• Demonstrated experience with Firmware and Software Requirements.
• Knowledgeable in Radio Frequency (RF) and Satellite communication