Project Engineer, Systems Engineer

Location:

Dallas, TX, US, 75243

Job

The Electro Optical Infrared Systems (EOIS) line of business within DRS has locations in Dallas and Austin, TX, Melbourne, FL, and Cypress, CA. EOIS develops, manufactures, and supports infrared and electro-optical solutions for soldiers, ground vehicles and airborne platforms. We offer an exciting and challenging work environment, a competitive salary and benefits package, and a business culture that rewards performance.

Employing the world’s brightest. Supporting the world’s bravest.

Business Unit: EOIS

Location:

Dallas TX
Career

Functional Area:

Project Engineering
Telework Type:
Onsite
Relocation Available:
Yes
Type:
Exempt Full Time

Schedule:

9/80
Shift: 1st

Project Engineers serve as the technical lead and program-facing engineering point of contact for assigned hardware/electronics programs within EOIS, coordinating initial designs, redesigns, and respin efforts across cross-functional teams (electrical, mechanical, software, systems, manufacturing, and supply chain). This role owns the technical scope, schedule, and cost basis for assigned work packages — translating customer and program requirements into actionable engineering plans, estimates, and deliverables.

• Responsible for the execution of schedule, cost, and technical performance for a specific set of projects or new business pursuits.
• Reconstruction of program technical history (as needed) synthesizing prior BOEs, ROMs, SOWs, and design artifacts from email threads and documentation to support new estimates or follow-on proposals.
• Work closely with Program Management to oversee the daily activities of the development team, responsible for driving engineering action plans.
• For larger programs, Cost Account Managers (CAM) could be assigned, and Project Engineers would manage CAMs.
• Work to fully understand the scope of work for assigned projects, including all contractual requirements.
• Projects need to be analyzed, well understood and disseminated to the engineering team(s) and agreed to with Program Management.
• Responsible for technical designs, leading design reviews, and holding engineering disciplines accountable.
• Serve as the primary technical interface for both our internal and external customers
• Drive the appropriate development and production phase requirements, as defined within DRS’ internal processes, within the Product Life Cycle.
• Manage configuration control activities for assigned hardware baselines, including ECO/ECN development, review, and change impact assessment
• Coordinate budget estimate reviews, obtained from each engineering discipline, with Program Management, as well as completing Estimate at Complete (EAC) metrics for monthly or weekly reports.
• Coordinate with Program Scheduler for the creation of schedules and managing schedules throughout the respective development and production phases. This includes schedule baselines, resource loading and monthly schedule performance metrics.
• Lead meetings that drive daily execution and tracking of projects and programs, while holding team members accountable for the following:
• Schedule (weekly cadence)
• Cost (weekly to monthly cadence)
• Technical (as needed by discipline and design)
• CCB (as needed by discipline and design/process)
• Risk (identifying/mitigating technical risks for program management)
• Customer (as needed)
• Compliance with Engineering Processes (by discipline, design and reliability)
• Ensure all engineering activities comply with applicable DRS quality processes, engineering standards, and regulatory requirements (ITAR, DFARS, etc.).
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of program engineering objectives. This could include mentoring associate-level engineers and reviewing their technical work products.