Lead, Program Engineer

Lead, Program Chief Engineer

L3

Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. L3

Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3

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 Location:

Onsite at our Redmond, WA facility

Job Schedule:

9/80 Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Program Chief Engineer manages program engineering resources, ensures the thoroughness, adequacy, and urgency of technical decisions and anomaly investigations, works with the program manager and contract manager to maintain strong customer communication and relations, supports program management and affordability initiatives, and provides technical coordination across all elements of the program both internally and externally. The Program Chief Engineer collaborates with multiple disciplines inside the company and with the customer to deliver products to make their mission possible, successful, and cost effective.

Essential Functions:

• Lead and/or support program technical activities required to design, assemble and test program hardware to meet customer requirements and verify suitability for the intended use.
• Provide broad-based engineering leadership to achieve program objectives while ensuring technical excellence, product performance, and customer confidence.
• Assure compliance to company policy and procedures (including standard work) within all program technical support activities.
• Maintain technical excellence and consistency in planning (Design Development Plans), execution (Technical Decision Making, Design and Hardware Reviews), and product ownership.
• Lead failure investigations/root cause analysis activities as required. Provide feedback and interaction to show our customer that L3
  
  Harris is the best value supplier for their needs.
• Support program change proposal activities, including change identification and management, program change board, proposal basis of estimate and technical writeup, fact-finding and negotiations, and program re-baselining.
• Maintain close and professional relationships with peers and senior management at L3
  
  Harris' customer.
• Support regular and as needed customer meetings to communicate program progress, risks and mitigation strategies, issues and recovery plans, interfaces and system requirements, and mission success.
• Work proactively with the program management team to address resource conflicts.
• Travel is required, as needed, within the United States to customers and suppliers - up to 10%.
• Ability to obtain a US LEVEL security clearance

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years of prior related engineering experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior engineering experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related engineering experience.

Preferred Additional

Skills:

• Background in Electric Propulsion highly preferred.
• A general knowledge of related disciplines such as material science, thermal and structural analysis, reliability and maintainability, systems engineering, spacecraft integration, and mission planning.
• Applicant must have a good understanding and demonstrated practice of root cause and corrective action methodologies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and high quality written and oral communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in Washington is $127,500 - $236,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors…