Job Description: Job Title: Lead, Project Engineer Job Code: 42358 Job Location: Clifton, NJ Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off Responsible for full lifecycle Project Engineering support for a range of software and hardware development, assembly, integration, test, and production efforts.
Essential Functions:• Responsible for successfully leading a large, cross-disciplinary, 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.
• 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 large 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.
• Reports/communicates program performance to senior level management, as well as externally, to the program customer.
• Leads engineering proposal efforts for follow-on Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), and new program pursuits.
• Work under the direction of an Enterprise level Project Engineer, to meet business area objectives.
Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
- Active Secret Security Clearance.
Preferred Additional Skills:- IPTL/CAM Professional experience
- Experience with best practices for project engineering and program execution
- Experience in managing multi-discipline programs
- Experience in engineering development, integration, production/manufacturing programs (inclusive of SW, HW, FW)
- Experience managing projects with total budgets of $50M+
- Experience in managing a team Integrated Product Team Leads (IPTL) and driving labor resources in a matrix organization
- Experience with Technical Supplier Management, Risk and Opportunity Management
- Experience with program pursuit and proposal activities, including cost estimation and technical proposal management
- Experience leading DOD Government Contract development programs
- Experience or knowledge of Government contract acquisition lifecycle a plus
- Experience with management of design to cost activities
- Experience with operations and/or manufacturing activities
- Experience in Root Cause Corrective Action process and techniques
- Program Management Institute - PMP certification desired or internal CAM/IPTL/PL certifications
- Experience in Electronic Warfare (EW) development programs
In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in New Jersey is $127,500 - $236,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
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