Title:  Specialist, Project Engineering

Job Title: Specialist, Project Engineering

Job Code: 42339

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 dynamic technical leaders to drive the architecture, design, and development of advanced systems for airborne and ground-based ISR platforms. In this role, you will lead cross-functional teams in defining system requirements, integrating complex subsystems, and ensuring successful verification and validation. You will balance both technical and programmatic responsibilities in a fast-paced environment focused on delivering innovative, mission-critical solutions on schedule and within budget.

Essential Functions:

• Lead project planning and development activities in alignment with customer and mission requirements.
• Perform resource and capacity planning in coordination with program leadership.
• Manage program cost, schedule, quality and technical performance; ensure proactive mitigation of variances.
• Oversee development of system documentation including requirements, design artifacts, test plans, and regulatory deliverables.
• Ensure system performance, compliance, and product quality through rigorous integration, verification, and validation processes.
• Identify program risks and develop mitigation strategies using modeling, simulation, agile development, and iterative test approaches.
• Drive collaboration across electrical, mechanical, cyber, software, systems engineering, procurement, and manufacturing teams to ensure cohesive execution.
• Serve as interface with customers, communicating progress, risks, design decisions, and changes in scope.
• Support business development by contributing to proposals, cost estimates, and technical solution shaping.
• Ability to obtain US Government clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, Cost Account Management and EVMS.
• Proficiency with project planning tools, MS Project,.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cost, schedule, quality and technical performance in engineering programs.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams through full life-cycle development.
• Engineering Program Leadership – Proven ability to lead geographically distributed engineering teams using digital engineering, and agile development practices.
• Technical Depth – Demonstrated success developing systems involving electronics, stabilization, and control algorithms.
• Innovative Problem Solving – Ability to architect non-obvious, multi-disciplinary solutions that differentiate L3Harris in competitive environments and align with customer mission objectives.

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