Project Engineer Lead

Project Engineer Lead

At Janicki Industries, we turn complex ideas into real-world solutions through advanced engineering and manufacturing. Our teams design and build innovative structures, tooling, and systems that support industries including aerospace, space, defense, marine, and architecture.

Across every role, from engineers and technicians to operations and support teams, our people help solve challenging problems, push the limits of design and manufacturing, and create solutions that make a lasting impact.

This position is located on-site in Bellingham, Washington State.

We are looking for a Project Engineer Lead who brings their leadership and experience to our team. This role is responsible for ensuring the team can successfully complete assigned projects and requires a passion for leadership and mentorship. This Lead Engineer takes on a high degree of responsibility within a team and will serve as a technical expert, be the primary point of contact to resolve customer issues, pursue proactive resolutions to issues at every stage of the project, implement risk mitigation strategies, and encourage and support less experienced engineers in their professional development.

Roles and responsibilities include managing a team of engineers to execute project scopes, managing engineering projects to produce technical deliverables with fixed cost and schedule constraints, monitoring and reporting project financial performance, communicating directly with customers to establish detailed requirements and deliverables, providing project status, and discussing risks.

Qualifications include a bachelor's degree in engineering, material science or a related technical field, 5+ years engineering experience in a manufacturing environment, commercial/military aerospace experience is preferred, demonstrated leadership experience, an understanding of material properties and testing, experience with research, data analysis, and problem solving, a strong working technical knowledge of composite materials, experience with hand tools, power tools, and CNC tools, and effective verbal and written communication skills in the English language.

Salary range for this role is between $95,000 - $145,000, plus discretionary bonus, 401(k) matching, vacation, and health benefits. Employees can also receive additional pay for off shifts.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contribution, disability insurance as well as Life/AD&D insurance, HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer contribution and FSA (Flexible Savings Account), 401k with employer matching, paid time off and paid holidays (including two floating holidays), education reimbursement program, several shift options, and premium pay for off-shifts.