Senior Project Engineer – Electrical IPT Lead - $10k Signing Bonus

About the role

BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems is seeking a Senior Project Engineer Electrical Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL) to manage and deliver a defined scope of work meeting all requirements within cost and schedule commitments. This role involves leading your team through all program phases, guiding technical discussions, collaborating, and making risk-based decisions.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate, establish, baseline, monitor, and control scope throughout planning and execution, thoroughly understanding the details and technical breadth of your team’s deliverables.
• Plan creation and monitoring to accomplish your team’s work scope.
• Capture plan uncertainties in Risk/Opportunity tool throughout execution, performing detailed monitoring, reporting, and forecasting of performance against the baseline using formal Earned Value planning, analysis, and reporting tools as well as BAE Systems SMS internal cost and schedule tools.
• As accountable owner of your team’s scope, cost, and schedule baseline, perform continuous monitoring and documentation of Risks and Opportunities against the baseline programmatic plan.
• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the Strategic Business Units, Strategic Capabilities Units and the Company. Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive work environment.

Requirements

• BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 10 or more years related experience.
• Experience on at least one program as lead with scope, cost, and schedule responsibility with budgets over $20M and/or staff size of 20 or more.
• Demonstrated ability to establish, estimate, baseline, and manage your team’s work scope, technical deliverables, cost, and schedule performance through all program phases.
• Familiarity and demonstrated expertise with full range of programmatic planning and reporting tools.
• Expertise with Risk and Opportunity management and Change Control Process via R&O boards, Engineer Review Boards, Change Control Boards and related Review Boards.
• Subcontract management. Demonstrated experience in management of aerospace industry suppliers.
• Knowledge of the lifecycle of development for electrical engineering projects from start to finish.
• Control Account Management (CAM) certification preferred.
• Familiarity and experience with all elements of Earned Value Management System: cost/schedule integrated plan creation, management, analysis, and reporting.

Qualifications

• Electronic project execution leadership experience and/or Electrical background.
• Experience specifying and ordering Electrical/Electronic Engineering (EEE) parts.
• Knowledge of the lifecycle of development for electrical engineering projects from start to finish.
• Knowledge of the lifecycle of development for electrical harness projects from start to finish.
• Experience with Aeronautical/ Aerospace Payload and/or Space Vehicle technology through program work for NASA, NOAA, DoW, and classified customers.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to filter and target information appropriately to each audience.
• Ability to influence without authority.
• Presentation skills, especially to management and customers.
• Tool and process improvement mindset.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Health savings account.
• A 401(k) savings plan.
• Disability coverage.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Legal plan.
• Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance.
• Recognition program.
• Other incentives based on position level and/or job specifics.

Pay

Full-Time Salary Range: $149603 - $254317. Individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Schedule

This position requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site three or more days each normally scheduled week in the primary work location. Travel and local commute between company campuses and other possible non-company locations may be required.

Benefits

• Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance.
• We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance.
• Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave.
• Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards.
• Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

About BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems

BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts – defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team—making a big impact on a global scale.