Job Title: Specialist, Project EngineeringJob Code: 42339Job Location: Palm Bay, FLJob Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday offJob 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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