Project Engineer Lead

About the role

At Janicki Industries, we turn complex ideas into real-world solutions through advanced engineering and manufacturing. Our teams design and build innovative structures, tooling, and systems that support industries including aerospace, space, defense, marine, and architecture. Across every role, from engineers and technicians to operations and support teams, our people help solve challenging problems, push the limits of design and manufacturing, and create solutions that make a lasting impact. This position is located on-site in Layton, Utah. Department Summary We are looking for a Project Engineer Lead who brings their leadership and experience to our team. This role is responsible for ensuring the team can successfully complete assigned projects and requires a passion for leadership and mentorship. This Lead Engineer takes on a high degree of responsibility within a team and will serve as a technical expert, be the primary point of contact to resolve customer issues, pursue proactive resolutions to issues at every stage of the project, implement risk mitigation strategies, and encourage and support less experienced engineers in their professional development.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of engineers to execute project scopes.
• Manage engineering projects to produce technical deliverables with fixed cost and schedule constraints.
• Monitors and reports project financial performance.
• Communicate directly with customers to establish detailed requirements and deliverables, provide project status, and discuss risks.
• Direct and participate in engineering activities, including design, engineering reviews, and work order preparation.
• Responsible for assuring the team has materials organized and ready for manufacturing, including monitoring purchasing activities.
• Interact frequently with shop floor to ensure project health; may have daily presence on shop floor.
• Identify process improvement areas.
• Assure all team members have a complete understanding of all quality requirements for projects.
• Manage project scope and is responsible for the execution of the team’s work.
• Perform risk