Project Engineer

Core Responsibilities

• Lead technical execution of assigned projects, subsystems, or work packages from initial direction through delivery, including ownership of engineering scope, technical progress, risks, deliverables, and execution outcomes
• Translate high-level direction from senior leadership, customers, contracts, purchase orders, statements of work, and proposed efforts into executable engineering plans for multidisciplinary teams
• Decompose ambiguous technical or program direction into actionable work packages, including tasks, owners, dependencies, milestones, assumptions, acceptance criteria, and required deliverables
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams across systems, electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing, quality, test, and production-support functions
• Apply engineering judgment to evaluate technical plans, design approaches, test strategies, integration plans, risks, tradeoffs, dependencies, and proposed solutions
• Drive technical progress against schedule, budget, requirements, and performance objectives, while ensuring engineering plans are technically coherent and executable
• Identify gaps, ambiguities, conflicts, missing information, unsupported assumptions, weak risk burn-down plans, and unclear acceptance criteria
• Lead design reviews, test readiness reviews, customer reviews, technical interchange meetings, and internal program reviews
• Work with senior leadership, program/project management, customers, suppliers, subcontractors, and technical stakeholders to clarify scope, resolve ambiguity, and drive execution issues to closure
• Maintain project documentation, action items, engineering metrics, decision records, execution plans, risk registers, and technical status reporting
• Lead technical change management activities related to scope, requirements, configuration control, technical trade studies, verification, validation, and integration
• Serve as the technical point of contact for assigned projects, subsystems, or integrated product teams, escalating technical, schedule, resource, or execution risks when needed while driving corrective actions to closure

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field
• 5 – 7 years of relevant engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience leading technical projects, engineering work packages, multidisciplinary teams, or cross-functional engineering execution efforts
• Demonstrated technical proficiency in an engineering discipline, with a strong foundation in engineering principles, structured problem solving, design, analysis, integration, test, production support, or applied research
• Prioritized proven ability to translate high-level or ambiguous direction into executable engineering plans, tasks, deliverables, milestones, ownership assignments, and acceptance criteria
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams while engaging credibly with engineers across multiple technical domains, even when not serving as the subject-matter expert in each discipline
• Strong understanding of engineering development, integration, test, production support, technical review processes, and project execution in a structured engineering environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convert complex technical discussions into clear decisions, actions, owners, and execution plans
• US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain DoD security clearance