Lead Project Engineer

Job Title: Lead Project Engineer

Job Code: 46682

Job Location: Salt Lake City, UT

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

Job Description:

Position Overview:

L3Harris is seeking a Lead Project Engineer to provide technical leadership and day-to-day execution for assigned Spitfire and LRASM/JASSM programs. The Project Engineer integrates engineering scope, technical performance, cost, schedule, risk, and customer commitments within the program baseline established by the Program Manager and customer.

Essential Functions:

• Serves as the engineering focal point among program management, control account managers, engineering functional leads, integrated product teams, operations, quality, supply chain, and line management
• Maintains the integrated engineering execution plan, including technical scope, staffing, schedules, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, and recovery actions; provides clear status to program leadership and customers
• Drives timely technical issue resolution, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and risk mitigation to protect product performance, quality, schedule, and customer commitments
• Establishes actionable execution metrics and intervention plans; partners with Program Management and Finance to manage engineering earned value, forecasts, estimate-to-complete, and cost and schedule variance
• Coordinates resources and required approvals across engineering disciplines; ensures configuration-controlled technical decisions, interfaces, and changes are evaluated and executed
• Leads preparation for and execution of engineering and program reviews, including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, qualification, acceptance, and flight readiness activities, as applicable
• Coordinates integration, verification, and production-readiness activities; communicates effectively with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders
• Comprehensive knowledge of project engineering, systems engineering, and integrated product development for complex hardware and software programs
• Demonstrated ability to translate program objectives into executable engineering plans and align cross-functional teams to the technical baseline
• Experience managing technical execution through development, integration, verification, production, delivery, and sustainment phases
• Working expertise in Earned Value Management, engineering cost and schedule estimation, forecasting, and variance analysis
• Experience coordinating across multiple engineering functions, manufacturing/operations, quality, supply chain, and program controls
• Experience communicating directly with government and industry customers and presenting technical status, risks, and decisions to technical and non-technical audiences
• Availability to travel 10-20% of the time to customer and supplier sites in support of technical meetings, reviews, integration, and verification activities

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.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Graduate degree in an engineering or technical discipline
• Active DoD security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one
• Experience with DoD missile, weapon-system, or similarly complex defense programs; LRASM/JASSM RFE experience and/or A3M/PTW preferred
• Experience with requirements management, configuration management, technical baseline control, systems integration, verification planning, and risk/opportunity management
• Experience leading engineering execution in a production or rate-readiness environment, including supplier coordination and nonconformance/corrective-action closure
• Proficiency with engineering planning and execution tools such as IMS, EVM systems, requirements management, and configuration-management tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, sound technical judgment, and the ability to lead through influence across a matrixed organization