Level 3 Communications, Inc

Lead, Project Engineering

Level 3 Communications, Inc • $110K — $205K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 9+ years of engineering development and project leadership experience, or 7+ years with a graduate degree, or 13+ years of relevant experience without a degree.
  • Strong domain knowledge in hardware, software, and project management related to tactical radio products.
  • Proven self-starter with the ability to work independently and demonstrate strong judgment.
  • Leadership abilities to guide engineering teams even without a formal supervisory role.
  • Experience managing products through design, development, integration, and testing phases.
  • Exceptional planning and management skills.
  • Familiarity with Earned Value Management System and Agile/DevOps environments.

Responsibilities

  • Drive strategic direction of products and services in collaboration with Product Line Management.
  • Ensure technical, schedule, and cost targets are defined and met with Program Management.
  • Oversee product development for various projects by creating and monitoring Integrated Project Plans.
  • Collaborate closely with Engineering functional leads to meet commitments and deadlines.
  • Promote engineering productivity improvements through effective project management processes.
  • Own product quality, costs, yield improvements, and work in progress.
  • Support customer engagements and proposals to capture new business opportunities.

Benefits

  • Health and disability insurance
  • 401(k) match
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Education assistance
  • Parental leave
  • Paid time off
  • Company-paid holidays
Full Job Description
Job Title: Project Engineer / Deputy Chief Engineer

Job Code: 44718

Job Location: Rochester NY

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Deputy Chief Engineer/Engineering Project Owner is a vitally important role, working alongside the Chief Engineer, sharing accountability for managing radio products to deliver solutions aligned with business goals and customers' critical missions.

The Deputy Chief Engineer/Engineering Project Owner will share responsibilities with the Chief Engineer for technical and managerial leadership over the product via successful execution of assigned projects assuring product deliverables in accordance with established capability, budget, schedule, and quality commitments from product conception to end of life.

The role of a Deputy Chief Engineer is to gain experience across the following Essential Functions, growing into a role of a Chief Engineer taking on overall responsibilities of a product/system.

Essential Functions:
  • Driving strategic direction of products and services, including defining product roadmaps and capability sets in collaboration with Product Line Management and Program Management
  • Partnering with Program Management to ensure the technical, schedule and cost targets of assigned programs are properly defined and met
  • Overseeing product development for IRAD/EAID projects and Government programs by developing Integrated Project Plans (IPP) with the Integrated Project Team from creation through approval. The IPP documents the scope, budget and baselined schedule, defines team and project roles/responsibilities, and identifies issues and risks. Following the IPP approval, monitoring progress, guiding the team through the execution of all required tasking, including technical content, cost, schedule, and deliverables of assigned projects and programs
  • Engaging and working closely with Engineering functional leads (Hardware/ Software/ Systems/ Integration & Test) to ensure accountability in meeting established commitments and deadlines
  • Enabling value engineering, product commonality, reuse, cross-product alignment, and scalability via effective collaboration with various product leadership teams
  • Driving engineering productivity performance improvements by providing inputs into project management processes, tools, and metric collection methodologies
  • Assuming ownership of product quality, costs, yield improvements, and work in progress (WIP)
  • Delivering solutions to product obsolescence and critical part shortages
  • Capturing of new business opportunities by supporting customer interchanges, product briefings / demonstrations, pursuits and proposals, identifying Engineering scope, partnering with functional teams on Basis of Estimates, and reviewing the bid with the Engineering leadership team
  • Assisting Portfolio Chief Engineer with planning for IRAD technology development, implementing product sustainment initiatives, introducing new products/systems to the factory, and preparing for status briefings in support of organizational objectives and commitments.
  • Ability to obtain a US security clearance


Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant engineering development and project leadership 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.


Preferred Additional Skills:
  • Domain knowledge (hardware, software, project management) and experience with tactical radio products
  • Self-starter, ability to work independently, show strong judgment, be decisive, and work with others to drive towards a common solution
  • Leadership capability to guide multi-functional engineering teams without formal supervisory role
  • Demonstrated experience managing products through design, development, integration and test phases including Technical, Cost, Schedule, Risk
  • Exemplary planning and management skills
  • Ability to articulate key message summaries to business executives
  • Ability to learn new skills, meet deadlines, embrace new technologies, and follow process
  • Experience with Earned Value Management System
  • Experience working in DevOps or Agile environments, be familiar with continuous integration concepts, and establish quality assurance benchmarks


In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is $110,500 - $205,500. 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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