Staff Project Engineer-Aerospace Industry

About the role

The Project Engineer (PE) is responsible for the Technical Management of the Program along with the oversight of performing requirements analysis and management, technical planning, systems-level design, systems integration, verification and validation, cost and risk management, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Engineering project plans on assigned Programs in new product development or sustainment of existing projects.
• Perform requirements management using tools such as DOORS.
• Establish timelines, budgets/estimates, and secure support/buy-in from functional and senior management.
• Conceptualize, analyze, design, and oversee semi-complex systems-level architecture design.
• Lead teams and facilitate the communication and interaction amongst the functional representatives; develop cross-functional teams to assure proper engineering discipline representation on a task.
• Perform requirements analysis and allocations.
• Identify roadblocks and bottlenecks to project execution and determine a course of action to eliminate or avoid them; develop and implement recovery plans for off-schedule and unanticipated events.
• Communicate with the Engineering resources to ensure that specific tasks assigned to them are progressing at the required completion rate.
• Escalate engineering issues to the appropriate level of management for which the engineering team cannot reach consensus.
• Maintain action item lists.
• Conduct project reviews as required; present detailed plan status to senior management as required.
• Represent project execution issues in stakeholder or customer discussions.
• Create procedures for carrying out various systems engineering tasks.
• Affiliate with verification and validation tasks.
• Follow internal systems engineering procedures for carrying out various SE responsibilities.
• Other related duties assigned by supervisor.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent technical discipline with a minimum of 5 years of related Project Engineering Management and Systems Engineering experience.
• Proficiency with MS Office, including Microsoft Project and associated applications.
• Working knowledge of engineering processes related to Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering.
• Systems-level block diagram capture tools such as Visio.
• Other related systems engineering tools.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) exposure or certification a plus.
• Requirements Management Tools preferred (DOORs or other similar relational databases).

Skills and Abilities

• Strong communicator, both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate with individuals, functions, senior management, and suppliers.
• Skilled to motivate and facilitate individuals and teams.
• Strong problem solver, able to differentiate the importance from the urgent and prioritize activities.
• Demonstrated strong leadership at a Program level.