Senior Project Engineer

Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead the maintenance and sustainment of existing products, driving upgrades and enhancements through established engineering development processes.
• Own and oversee the development and management of project schedules in Agile environments while ensuring alignment with traditional waterfall milestones.
• Partner with Product Managers to proactively resolve complex technical issues and inform product direction.
• Drive and facilitate the identification, definition, and documentation of technical issues, risks, and dependencies across the project team.
• Ensure delivery ownership of engineering solutions that meet committed scope, schedule, and performance objectives.
• Serve as a primary technical interface with customers (internal and external) on requirements, issue resolution, planning, and status updates.
• Lead and promote cross-team collaboration using tools such as Microsoft Teams to ensure alignment and transparency.
• Oversee and monitor product development activities and progress using tools such as Jira, ensuring accurate tracking and reporting.
• Collaborate strategically with functional engineering managers to forecast, secure, and optimize resources in support of customer needs.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts with customers and engineering teams to isolate root causes and deliver timely solutions or effective workarounds.
• Ensure comprehensive documentation of all technical issues from initial identification through troubleshooting, escalation, and resolution.
• Conduct advanced analysis and resolution of complex customer issues, driving escalation paths with Product Management and Engineering as needed.
• Provide timely, professional, and technically sound communication to customers, delivering both immediate workarounds and long-term solutions to complex problems.

Minimum Job Requirements

• Four-year college degree in engineering or related technical discipline plus 3+ years of related experience.
• Plus 3 years experience in creating, analyzing, documenting and tracking engineering development efforts.
• Project management experience required.
• Mental ability to perform engineering problem solving and analytical tasks.
• Must be able to work under project deadlines and be able to support Product Team in the establishment and maintenance of engineering project schedules and cost budgets.
• Must have strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Must communicate effectively, both verbally and in written form.
• Must have some leadership experience working with and building teams.
• Requires experience with Jira and Project Management tools (MS Project, Primavera, Smartsheet, or similar application), SAP exposure, and Confluence.

Pay

Cubic Pay Range $114,000.00 - $143,000.00 + benefits.

The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.