Project Engineer Lead

Location: Oshkosh, WI • Onsite only (no hybrid/remote) • Monday–Friday, 7:30 AM–4 PM • US citizenship required (ITAR) • Occasional travel to supplier facilities or test sites within the USA

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage engineering projects, including developing project plans, budgets, sub-contractor statements of work, and status reporting.
• Make critical decisions that impact projects and engineering initiatives.
• Foster innovative thinking, accountability, and process improvement among engineers.
• Perform high-level engineering analysis, design, validation, and troubleshooting of complex components for heavy-duty vehicles.
• Provide integration and execution support for vehicle, system, sub-system, and component design.
• Mentor engineers in high-level analysis and design; indirectly manage a team of engineers, designers, and technicians.
• Plan, direct, and coordinate engineering activities; provide coaching and development through regular performance feedback.
• Collaborate with and build relationships among internal and external customers.
• Present and defend technical engineering decisions to leadership and external customers.
• Ensure on-time completion of moderate-complexity projects; manage overall project schedule and budget.
• Perform complex engineering calculations, investigations, and tasks; prepare and deliver plans, designs, computation methods, and reports.
• Collaborate with other engineering or business support disciplines internally and with external suppliers.
• Develop and review interface control documentation with suppliers and business partners.
• Guide and mentor entry-level engineers.
• Research, create, and update standard engineering methodology and procedures.
• Participate in the budgeting process, recommending capital improvements.
• Maintain effective communication with suppliers, internal and external customers, and outside resources concerning technical issues.
• Evaluate designs for performance, safety, and reliability.
• Create and maintain project documentation.
• Provide complex technical assistance for production support; analyze and resolve issues reported to engineering.
• Prepare technical proposals, quotations, reports, and presentations.
• Prepare subcontractor scopes of work.

Requirements

• Accredited Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of related engineering experience.
• Minimum 2 years of successful engineering project management of medium or greater technical complexity.
• Experience in root-cause analysis, electro-mechanical system integrations, DFMEA & DVP&R development.
• Prior experience managing NDAs.

Preferred Skills

• PMP certification.
• Vehicle system experience.
• Experience with model-based system engineering (MOSA).
• Military experience.

Pay

$65–$70/hr

Schedule

6+ month contract