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Job Title: Senior Specialist, Project Engineering

Job Code: 46863

Job Location: Ashburn, VA (On-Site)

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

Sign on Bonus: This position offers a $10,000 sign on bonus for external candidates who currently hold an active U.S. Security Clearance

Job Description:

We are seeking a motivated and innovative individual to join our team as a Project Engineering Senior Specialist. This position involves the technical leadership and oversight of the requirements, design, analysis, development, test & evaluation of unmanned aerial systems. Responsibilities include technical management of new and existing products, and new development project planning and execution. Individual will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplined engineering team on complex projects at various phases of project life cycle. Work closely with the Program Manager, engineering team, manufacturing, quality and other departments as necessary to expedite project completion and most importantly meet the customer expectations.

Essential Functions:

Serves as lead on technical proposals and program execution

Responsible for managing and directing program management teams with the cost, schedule, technical, and contractual performance requirements of a complex technical program portfolios through the life-cycle phases of development, implementation, and operations. This includes utilizing Earned Value Management, maintaining an integrated master schedule, managing development and test to a technical baseline, and maintains an active and proactive risk management program. Responsible for budget management and financial execution of the portfolio.

Proactively manages risk, including identification and mitigation plans, and issue elevation and resolution

Effectively communicates status to stakeholders, including organizational leadership, multifunctional teams, and the customer

Solves problems with a calm sense of urgency

Demonstrates operational discipline and ownership

Maintains scope control through disciplined change management

Brings passion for innovation, a sophisticated understanding of electronic equipment and systems, and the ability to further advance L3Harris Agile Development Group

Coordinates all technical aspects of the project to meet scope, schedule and design to cost goals

Uses project management best practices and industry standards for resource planning, personnel oversight, and cost/schedule tracking

Ability to establish a culture of trust, open communications, data driven decision making, customer focus and relentless continuous improvement.

Work with functional leadership to ensure that all resources such as engineering, manpower, production, and facilities are available to support the program are reflected in staffing demand tools.

Ability to support 20% travel.

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.

Active US Secret Clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills:

Experience as the technical lead on technically complex projects

Recent experience as lead on technical proposals, including ownership of the engineering portion of basis of estimate.

Experience in organizing and leading Engineering, contractual, financial, Operations, and other cross functional areas to provide total Program life-cycle management. Experience managing projects with budgets of $20M+ and a total portfolio >$100M. Experience leading geographically diverse program teams comprised of Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) with membership from multiple Company and potentially partner organizations.

Experience in development and production programs is required.

4+ years of experience with the implementation and execution using Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) and employment of applicable metrics.

Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work well within and outside of the organization including customers, vendors, and leadership with minimal oversight

Demonstrated complex problem solving and decision making — Able to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions; able to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution

Program planning, guidance, and engineering execution within scope, schedule and budget

Broad understanding of engineering processes and policies

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in Virginia (Greater D.C. area) is $106,500 - $197,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.