Lead, Project Engineering - PDM / MITD

Job Title: Lead, Project Engineer

Job Code: 46132

Job Location: Greenville, TX

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

Job Description:

The Project Engineer (PE) provides overall technical leadership for assigned programs in close coordination with the Program Manager and under the direction of Engineering Leadership. This role is accountable for maintaining technical scope, managing the engineering budget, and ensuring alignment with the overall program schedule. The PE directs cross-functional engineering task leads, coordinates with functional managers on resource utilization, earned value reporting and ensures consistency between functional and program performance against cost and schedule targets. The role also oversees technical compliance across broader operational interfaces, including manufacturing and HD&L, and serves as a key technical point of contact for customers throughout the program lifecycle.

Essential Functions:

• Ability to obtain US Secret security clearance.
• 10% travel based on business needs.
• Lead Engineering functional teams to accomplish PDM and MITD program milestones and technically compliant deliverables per Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and Performance Work Specification (PWS).
• Ability to occasionally work extended hours based on business needs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field (Engineering, Mathematics, or similar) and a minimum of 9 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of prior engineering and leadership experience.

• Demonstrated experience with the seven or more of the following areas is required:
  • Managing Programmed Depot Maintenance (PDM) projects for military platforms.
  • Managing Modification, Installation, Test and Data (MITD) projects for military platforms.
  • ELINT on Airborne ISR platforms, whether as a developer, integrator or leader.
  • COMINT on Airborne ISR platforms, whether as a developer, integrator or leader.
  • Program planning, guidance, and engineering execution within scope, schedule and budget.
  • Bidding and Proposals which includes working with material and production estimating in that bidding process.
  • Mission System Installation on Airborne Platforms.
  • Design, Development and Test efforts.
  • Leadership (i.e. Task, IPT Leader and/or Functional Management).
  • Executive Level engagement with both internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred Additional Skills

• Advanced technical or management degree.
• Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems experience.
• Experience on Foreign Military Sales Programs or Direct Commercial Sales.
• Capture and Proposal Development.
• Architecting mission system configurations to meet customer needs.
• Ground, aircraft, space or shipborne mission system integration expertise.
• Aircraft Engineering Procurement Fabrication (EPF) experience.
• Military Airworthiness Certification Checklist (MACC) and MIL-HDBK-516 experience.