L3Harris Corporation is seeking a Specialist, Project Engineer (PE) (Level 3) for the Melbourne/Palm Bay, FL location. This is an opportunity to take on unique challenges, expand your skills and experience, and contribute to mission critical systems solutions that help protect the U.S.A. and our allies, both Domestic and Internationally. You will join a great team of talented professionals who take a collaborative approach and enjoy working together.
Responsibilities of the Specialist Project Engineer include:
Serve as the techncial lead of the project/integrated product team (IPT)/product development with cost and schedule responsibility.
Develops, presents, and delivers comprehensive presentations to the project team, as well as at times to upper management and customer personnel, in a clear and concise manner.
Assist in successful startup activity, including staffing, robust mitigation plans and establishment of the technical baseline and change management process
Monitors the product/project from initiation through completion and/or customer acceptance.
Assits in developing, managing, and maintaining all aspects of project-level risks, including mitigation, costing and planning.
Planning and management of the products/projects on schedule and within budget constraints.
Assits in establishment and execution of detailed integrated master schedules
Work with Subject matter Experts (SME) to estimate resource and material needs for the project/product.
Work with Project Scheduler to develop, monitor, and status detailed MS Project schedules.
Work with Finance using Earned Value Management System (EVMS) reports to manage project performance.
Review of earned value metrics such as CPI, SPI, TCPI, and ETC to drive program focus
Facilitator over design, process, manufacturing, test, and quality as the project/product(s) move to completion and distribution.
Works with Systems Engineering to ensure that products/projects delivered meet customer requirements and specifications.
Employee engagement to meet project needs
Driving a culture of continuous improvement as evidenced by executed improvement projects
Maintaining forecasted demand signal on resource needs and partnering with the Functional Engineering Managers (EMs), talent acquisition and supply chain on development of plans for accomplishing the engineering work
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:
Experience executing throughout the project/product or integrated product team (IPT) lifecycle including requirements flow down and allocation, design, development, test, and sell-off
Competent verbal and written communication skills in a technical information environment
Demonstrated ability to work to deadlines and prioritize workload appropriately.
Demonstrated methodical approach to their work.
Demonstrated earned value / cost account management experience
Demonstrated schedule responsibility experience
Experience executing throughout the project lifecycle including requirements flow down and allocation, design, development, test, and sell-off.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in a technical information environment.
Demonstrated Earned value / Cost account management experience, with cost and schedule responsibility experience.
Demonstrated ability to work to deadlines and prioritize workload appropriately.
Demonstrated methodical approach to their work.
Broad Engineering experience across multiple technical focus areas a plus
Proficient with MS project and other MS Office packages
Functional management experience or direct involvement in resource management forecasting and placement a plus.
L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.