Title:  Scientist, Chief Engineer

Job Title: Scientist, Chief Engineer

Job ID: 36437

Job Location: Jupiter, 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 Chief Engineer with expertise in development of missile systems and/or missile propulsion systems. The person in this position will be deployed as a Chief Engineer responsible for the technical strategy and technical execution of ongoing customer funded efforts. This includes all phases of development from pre-award concept development, proposal development, through design, testing and verification, and on to production, deployment and operational acceptance. The Chief Engineer will be responsible for directing the execution activities of all engineering disciplines for existing programs and new pursuits.

Essential Functions: 

• Leadership of vehicle and propulsion systems design, with a strong focus on continuous improvement related to meeting design milestones on time, and within budget. 
• Strong leadership and agility to be decisive and communicate strategic vision in development environments with often incomplete technical requirements, aggressive schedule demands, and high quality standards.
• Coordination of engineering efforts with supply chain and operations for development efforts.
• Co-ownership of metrics related to MRB and Nonconformance rates and closure times for Production Programs, as well as production delivery metrics.
• Identify IR&D efforts and drive alignment with technical roadmaps to create technology differentiators
• Leadership of pursuits with emphasis on technical baseline rigor, cost justification, executability, and risk management.
• Leads/contributes to program risk/opportunity management and drives mitigation / realization actions.
• Responsible for technical issue resolution, ensures root cause is identified and corrective actions are executed to plan
• Expected to travel 25%

Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance required.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Proficiency in leading technical issue resolution via root cause investigation and identification of effective corrective action(s)
• Expertise in communicating technical data to senior management and customers of varying technical complexity
• 7+ years of Propulsion and Vehicle Systems domain knowledge desired
• Strong multi-disciplinary technical breadth in Missiles and Propulsion
• Ability to quickly understand missions, customer sets, drive strategy
• Experience with requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management.
• Ability to lead large, complex, and multidisciplinary teams on engineering development programs
• Experience successfully executing multi-site engineering efforts

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