Lead, Project Engineering

Job Title:Lead, Project Engineering

Job Code: 47349

Job Location:Palm Bay, FL

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

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking a dynamic technical leader who can drive EO/IR solutions design, development & production. They will have engineering responsibilities supporting the definition, design, development, integration & test of electro-optic systems for airborne, and ground, imaging surveillance systems. This role has both programmatic and technical responsibilities with challenging timelines, working to achieve a collective goal: deliver innovative solutions within schedule and budget constraints.

Essential Functions:

• Lead one or more cross functional teams typically with 4-10 members
• Deliver to program cost and schedule goals
• Plan and request team members in support of current and projected programs
• Help define total systems design, technology, and processes to meet mission requirements
• Coordinate across functional engineering areas to design, develop and test products, resolve compatibility and interface problems across all subsystems
• Perform project capacity planning in conjunction with other project leaders and functional managers
• Utilize department capabilities such as Simulation, Modeling, Design, Agile Development, Integration & Test
• Support business development activities including bid & proposal cost/schedule generation
• Evaluate performance measures and ensure system requirements are met
• Perform subsystem integration, technical risk assessment, technical planning, verification and validation, and supportability analyses
• Understand, implement, & audit engineering processes on programs and projects
• Create and update essential engineering documents including processes, specifications, reports, plans, technical memos, and presentations
• Represent engineering organization both internal and external to the organization
• Must be able to communicate clearly (written and verbal) to technical and non-technical personnel
• Ability to obtain US government clearance

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:

• Management of engineering projects
• Broad knowledge of Risk Management tools and techniques
• Skilled knowledge of Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS).
• Understanding of the design and development of electro-optical/infrared systems and associated opto-mechanical technology
• Experience with Electrical, Optical, Mechanical, Software and Systems Engineering
• Front-end concept development for new products
• Model Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, & Agile Development
• System-level performance analysis (e.g., image analysis, thermal analysis, structural analysis, end-to-end performance, reliability analysis)
• Hardware/Software design, integration, testing, and troubleshooting
• Project Engineering/Program Management of aerospace products with multi-site development teams
• Understanding of defense products and platforms
• Engineering Project Management - A track record of managing diverse & distributed personnel developing complex technology. Knowledge of digital engineering & modeling techniques including how their use benefit program execution. An understanding of agile development environments. Ability to work seamlessly across multi-site development teams.
• Technical Acumen - Demonstrated through successful product and systems development experiences involving complex systems such as optics, detector arrays, digital video, processing electronics, pointing, stabilization, & control algorithms.
• Creative Solutions - Direct contribution to technical solutions that integrate multiple disciplines or technologies into non-obvious system architectures that provide meaningfully unique and differentiated capability; requires understanding of current and proposed competitive solutions, key performance indicators, and end-user mission objectives as well as understanding of interplay between technologies and engineering design.
• Department Planning - An understanding of both technical and market roadmaps to drive department capability growth plans.