Senior Specialist, Project Engineer

About the role

The Senior Specialist, Project Engineer is responsible for leading execution of complex military avionics non-recurring engineering (NRE) development programs and supporting transition into production and sustainment. This role provides cross-functional technical and program leadership across the full product lifecycle, including requirements definition, architecture and design maturity, development, integration, verification, qualification, manufacturing readiness, and production ramp.

Responsibilities

• Lead project engineering execution for military avionics NRE development programs from program kickoff through qualification, customer acceptance, and transition to production.
• Serve as the engineering lead for complex multi-discipline efforts involving systems, electrical, mechanical, optical, software, FPGA, reliability, specialty engineering, and test.
• Partner with Program Management to establish and maintain integrated technical, cost, and schedule plans aligned to program objectives and contractual commitments.
• Drive execution through all major program reviews and technical milestones.
• Coordinate technical baseline management.
• Lead engineering support for proposal, capture, and basis-of-estimate activities for follow-on development, product upgrades, and production efforts.
• Ensure alignment of product design with design-to-cost, design-for-manufacture, design-for-test, design-for-reliability, and supportability objectives.
• Work closely with Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality to multiple areas.
• Support development and execution of EVMS, integrated master schedules, risk and opportunity management plans, and technical performance measures.
• Identify, communicate, and resolve technical, cost, schedule, and producibility risks across the development and production lifecycle.
• Interface directly with internal leadership, customers, and suppliers to communicate program status, technical issues, recovery plans, and execution strategy.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and technical leadership to less experienced engineers and project engineers.
• Support factory and customer-site activities as required.
• Travel up to 10%.
• Ability to obtain Secret Security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Skills

• Experience leading military avionics electronics, display, mission systems, or related hardware development programs.
• Experience executing NRE development programs from requirements through integration, verification, qualification, and production transition.
• Experience leading complex, multi-discipline engineering teams across one or more of the following areas: systems, electrical, mechanical, optical, software, FPGA, reliability, and test.
• Experience managing projects and/or engineering scope associated with budgets of $10M+.
• Ability to develop and execute plans that achieve technical, cost, schedule, quality, and manufacturing readiness objectives.
• Experience with design-to-cost and cost reduction initiatives across development and production phases.
• Experience leading Government contract development programs for military avionics or airborne electronics.
• Experience transitioning avionics products from development into production, including prototype, qualification, low-rate initial production, and full-rate production support.
• Experience with environmental and qualification testing applicable to avionics products.
• Experience with manufacturing readiness, producibility improvement, and production issue resolution.
• Experience with requirements management, configuration management, and verification planning/execution.
• Experience with supplier management, obsolescence management, and long-lead material planning in defense programs.
• Experience supporting program pursuit, capture, and proposal activities.

Schedule

9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off