Senior Project Engineer

Job Description

Saab Inc., Land Systems division is seeking an experienced, dynamic, results-oriented Senior Staff Project Engineer to execute engineering activities for broad weapon systems related efforts, including development, technology transfer, maturation, and production. The candidate will operate in multi-divisional, multi-layered, multi-cultural, rapidly paced environment.

Travel is required, both domestic and international. This position is located in Auburn Hills, MI or Syracuse, NY. Relocation will be provided if needed.

• Plan and execute engineering efforts, in any phase of the product life cycle, in terms of scope, cost, and schedule. Integrate the engineering plan into the overall project plan.
• Effectively communicate with customers, leadership, engineering, operations, supply chain, finance and other relevant functions to support product technology transfer, maturation, production, and spiral development.
• Operate in multi-cultural, diverse environment, both in person and remotely.
• Identify and evaluate risks and develop integrated mitigation strategies.
• Develop and implement metrics to effectively report engineering progress towards milestones both within the technical team and non-technical management.
• Lead multi-discipline engineering teams, including staffing, performance assessments and mentoring to engineering team members.
• Understand business area objectives and opportunities to influence and impact.
• Ability to collaborate with the proposal teams to understand the customer requirements to directly shape the proposed solutions.
• Exercise judgment and provide guidance in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Multi-task and provide support to other organizational efforts and teams.

Compensation Range: $132,000 - $171,600

The compensation range provided is a general guideline. When extending an offer, Saab, Inc. considers factors including (but not limited to) the role and associated responsibilities, location, and market and business considerations, as well as the candidate's work experience, key skills, and education/training.

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering with minimum 10 years of relevant experience, or Master of Science in Engineering with 8 years of relevant experience.
• Working experience with DoD and industry engineering processes, procedures, requirements, tools, and practices, including Cost Account Management (CAM) and Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Close familiarity with weapon systems (missiles, munitions, and platforms in land, sea, and air domains) concepts of operation, architecture, design, manufacturing, integration, test, production, and life cycle sustainment.
• Working knowledge of multi-discipline product requirements, architecture, design, manufacture, verification, integration, and test, including planning and execution experience over the product life cycle.
• Engineering and engineering leadership skills through phases of multi-discipline product cycle, including conceptualization, design, integration, verification, test, production, and sustainment.
• Effective communications with leadership, program management, subordinates, and peers, both domestically and internationally, ability to operate in highly demanding multi-cultural environment.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain DoD Secret clearance (active clearance preferred).
• International and domestic travel is required, at least 30%.

• First-hand experience with ground forces (U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corp., etc.) weapon systems and operations.
• Hands-on experience with the full-rate production support, including quality management, product improvement, obsolescence issues and supplier quality improvements.
• Experience with engineering functional management, including staffing, recruiting, coaching and mentoring, and performance reviews.

Must be a U.S. citizen. Applicants selected may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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