Engineer II, Project Engineering

Summary

The Project Engineer is the primary technical point of contact between the customer, internal non-technical teams, and the technical engineering teams responsible for the detailed execution of a project. The Project Engineer is responsible for a project from the conception of the project strategy through the execution of the statement of work.

• Formulate engineering inputs for proposals, including scope definition, hour’s estimates, and schedule assessments.
• Establish detailed staffing plans for project design execution.
• Work with Engineering Management and the assigned engineering staff to allocate resources for project tasking and develop detailed schedules.
• Identify customer dependencies for successful execution of project design within defined schedule.
• Develop, manage, and communicate design and certification requirements and strategy to the engineering team.
• Manage and provide status for design engineering resources throughout project lifecycle.
• Manage and provide status for design deliverable execution.
• Identify design scope (budget / schedule) changes and technical design risks throughout project lifecycle.
• Serve as technical coordinator of technical project vendors to include ODA, DOA, and compliance testing vendors.
• Manages and documents technical tasks, risks, issues and escalations.
• Support customer design review meetings.
• Primary interface with customer on technical issues and during design reviews.
• Technical decision maker during the project and ultimately accountable for producing a design which meets the project requirements within the project schedule and budget.
• Support the engineering team as required during the development stage. Level of support may range from design/drawing review and approval to assisting in modeling, analysis and/or detailed certification deliverable development.
• Provide mentoring and training to less senior employees.
• May require knowledge of SOX / 404 internal audit controls and related documentation.

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Required:
  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering, or in a related technical and/or equivalent field.
  • Familiarity and/or experience working with a 3D CAD package, preferably Autodesk Inventor.
  • Familiarity and/or experience working with a 2D CAD package, preferably AutoCAD.
  • Familiarity and/or experience developing piece-part, assembly and/or installation models and drawings.
  • 4+ years of experience working in a mechanical or Electrical design capacity.
• Preferred:
  • 1+ years of experience in a regulatory environment and coordinating with regulatory agencies, FAA background is preferred.
  • Experience in the aviation/aerospace or similar industry.
  • 7+ years of experience working in a mechanical design capacity.
  • 4+ years of experience working as a project engineer.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, blueprints, product and component specifications, data sheets and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively communicate technical details, design concepts, analysis results, and substantiation via verbal or written mediums. Ability to contribute to technical discussions before groups of customers and/or employees.

Ability to read and interpret figures, graphs and plots. Ability to solve algebraic, geometry and calculus-based problems. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations. Ability to apply mathematical concepts to solve engineering and technical problems. Ability to manage, organize, analyze and decipher large amounts of data.

Ability to solve practical, technical and engineering problems via a logical, analytic approach. Ability to simplify complicated problems using assumptions. Ability to validate work using verification techniques.