Senior Staff Project Engineer

Job Summary

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Staff Project Engineer-- but we are looking for more than an impressive skill set. We are looking for the type of person who respects others for their knowledge, skills, and experience as individuals and as team members. We want someone who is highly ethical, honest, fair…because that’s who we are. If you are the type of person who has high integrity and would thrive in an inclusive environment of camaraderie with your fellow teammates, we’re pretty confident you’ll love it here.

Responsibilities and Tasks

Project Execution

Primary technical POC with the customer, lead engineering team in the development of the technical review packages and lead customer technical reviews

Mediate and Adjudicate conflicts that arise within the engineering team and between engineering and the program manager Support the business unit in identification, mitigation, and management of risks, issues, and opportunities, specifically focused on the technical and engineering aspects

Lead engineering project execution to include the cost, schedule and technical baselines for all engineering activities

Partner with PM’s, Engineering Functional Managers, and Functional CAMs to ensure the project is being staffed and executed to plan

Manage project scope ensuring budget/schedule changes are made with corresponding scope changes

 Cost and Schedule Management

Utilize EVMS (scaled as appropriate) to monitor and control engineering cost and schedule performance

Ensure IMS is kept up to date with support from appropriate PP&C personnel or schedulers

Work with team to develop both technical and process improvement work arounds to mitigate potential cost and schedule variances

Coordinate/document variance reporting with the CAMs, or leads, as appropriate

Update WBS as required

Conduct project reviews as required, reporting program status to senior management           

Continuously work with the team to identify ways to improve efficiency of the technical team’s performance

Mentor/coach project team members to help achieve efficient and effective project execution.

Bids and Proposals

Develop/coordinate engineering program bid and execution baselines (technical, scope, cost, schedule, risk, opportunities…) IAW defined scope and objectives

Partner with Systems Engineers and Director(s) to provide innovative technical solutions to fit within budget and schedule constraints             

Develop/Lead the development of bids and BOE’s IAW company policy, using historical data wherever possible

Develop engineering WBS, IAW company standards tailored as appropriate to meet specific project requirements

Develop/support the development of the IMS, developing work packages and staffing requirements

Coordinate and document process tailoring activities for specific project requirements

Document risks and opportunities associated with the Engineering Bid

Develop bid package and obtain approval from relevant stakeholders

Project Planning       

Develop/refine engineering WBS, IAW company standards tailored as appropriate to meet specific project requirements

Clearly define and document project scope and deliverables

Coordinate and integrate the different functional inputs into a coherent executable project plan.

Establish, negotiate and allocate budgets to the CAMs

Coordinate the development of the engineering portion of the resource loaded IMS

Coordinate the development of the initial risk and opportunity register

Communicate staffing requirements to functional management in support of the engineering resource planning process

Resource Management

Develop and maintain staffing requirements (by skill and time phased) – ideally through a resource loaded schedule.

Negotiate staffing requirements with Engineering Functional leadership            

Enter and maintain staffing requirements into workforce planning tool.

Support functional staffing analysis for future work          

Partner with functional management in employee performance assessment, development, and corrective action

Identify and report variances between staffing levels vs plan    

Process

Execute role IAW project management process and other relevant procedures

Support company level process initiatives and audits

Continually seek ways to improve efficiency and performance

Partner with functional management to establish process tailoring. Identify risks associated with tailored tasks.

People/Relationships

Establish and maintain business unit partnerships

Establish and maintain key Elbit, customer, and engineering functional management relationships

Establish and maintain relationships with Applications Engineering   

Expected Leadership Characteristics     

Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members

Fosters an environment where employees are valued and cost effectiveness and efficiency is rewarded

Clearly explains project assignments, expectations, priorities, and follows up to ensure they are met

Practices the philosophy of communicate, negotiate, elevate when dealing with others

Delegates tasks as appropriate       

Agile and open to change, embracing it to deal with unpredictable or unexpected events

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Assumes responsibility for their project’s performance   

Practices self-improvement

Looks for outside opinions and advice

Exemplifies the company core values (Ethics, Customer Focus, Respect, and Excellence

Coaches/develops others and is open to coaching and feedback

Knowledge (Education/License/Certification, Prior Experience)

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or relevant technical discipline with advanced technical degree(s) preferred.

20 years relevant product development experience (Military products preferred)

CAM experience preferred   

PMP certification preferred

Earned Value Management experience strongly preferred

Skills and Abilities  

Demonstrated leadership skills       

Strong written and verbal communication skills