Lead Project Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, scheduling, and execution of development and sustainment projects to meet scope, schedule, and cost targets.
• Provide day-to-day leadership of cross-functional engineering teams through design, analysis, test, certification, and production.
• Partner with aircraft OEMs to define requirements, resolve technical issues, and maintain alignment with program objectives.
• Direct suppliers on technical scope, deliverables, configuration, and schedule expectations; negotiate tradeoffs to achieve program commitments.
• Maintain system-level requirements, interfaces, configuration control, and documentation for the integrated powerplant system.
• Lead root-cause investigations and drive timely corrective actions for production and field issues.
• Own cost accounts and manage budgets, forecasts, resource fill rates, and earned value performance.
• Identify program risks and opportunities and lead mitigation actions to improve technical, schedule, or cost outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with internal processes, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
• Present technical and program recommendations to leadership and customers and support formal program reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in a technical discipline such as science, technology, engineering or mathematics
• Minimum 8 years of experience in design, development and/or test of gas turbine engines, nacelle systems, engine control systems or other complex mechanical systems
• Proficiency in project management tools and methods (e.g. Microsoft Project, Agile Scrum/Kanban, Earned Value Management System)