Senior Project Engineer, Chief Engineer Lead

L3

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Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Project Engineer (Project Chief Engineer)

Job Code: 44642

Job Location: Fall River, MA (On-site)

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

Job Description:

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Harris as a Senior Specialist Project Engineer, where you will lead the technical, schedule, and cost execution of multidisciplinary design teams across new product development, production, and Internal Research and Development (IRAD) programs. In this role, you will partner closely with Program Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, and cross-functional teams to drive projects from concept through completion while ensuring alignment to customer needs, business objectives, and program commitments.

This is an opportunity to make a visible impact by guiding complex engineering efforts in a collaborative environment focused on innovation, execution, and mission-critical solutions.

Essential Functions:

• Lead the day-to-day technical, schedule, and cost execution of engineering projects with minimal oversight, ensuring alignment with program objectives and customer requirements.
• Coordinate across Program Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, resource managers, suppliers, subcontractors, and customers to support efficient project execution and overall team performance.
• Monitor and communicate project status, milestones, risks, opportunities, and resolution plans to management and stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Develop, maintain, and report engineering project schedules, plans, budgets, and earned value management metrics, and support resource planning for development programs.
• Ensure technical contractual obligations, baseline requirements, cost, schedule, and quality expectations are met through close collaboration with Program Managers and Lead Engineers.
• Provide technical leadership in customer meetings, technical presentations, and internal and external design reviews.
• Support proposal and new business activities through development of work breakdown structures, task descriptions, basis of estimates, and other cost estimating inputs.
• Drive compliance with applicable procedures & plans while identifying and implementing process, product, and system improvements.
• Contribute to strategic and operational goals by helping develop new processes, standards, and solutions that improve program and business performance.
• Able to travel up to 10% as needed to support program execution, customer meetings, supplier coordination, and design reviews.
• Able to analyze technical issues and support development, integration, test, and production activities in a complex engineering environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance if required by the program or customer.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 6 years of prior related experience, or a Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• At least…