Project Manager - Electrical

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Lead, Project Manager – Hardware & Electrical Engineering

29551

Rochester, NY

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

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Harris Communication Systems segment is seeking a highly motivated, team‑oriented electrical engineer experienced with Project Management to join an engineering organization that designs and delivers leading edge communications products.

The successful candidate will be responsible for hardware project management and indirect management of other electrical engineers in a matrixed organization supporting new product design and development and legacy redesign efforts for future production support. This individual will be a member of a cross functional development team with hands‑on responsibility for leading aspects of design, analysis, integration, and testing. Strong communication and interpersonal skills coupled with the ability work within a large engineering team are required.

This role requires strong project management, leadership and teamwork skills. The candidate will be expected to lead technology initiatives that may go beyond their personal technical competency, utilizing Subject Matter Experts (Engineers and Scientists) from other specific disciplines as required. The candidate will work collaboratively across the engineering organization to focus on the estimatation, requirements management, technical baseline creation, review and approval, process artifact review and approval and risk management/analysis and oversee project execution.

This candidate will be able to develop BOEs and timelines and help manage the development process to meet these budget and timing constraints.

• Support hardware project management for new designs and legacy sustainment
• Manage competing priorities amongst several projects
• Create and maintain project schedules
• Tracking and estimating project requirements and budgets
• Make design decisions and assess technical risks based on schedule and budget constraints
• Support hardware research, design, and development of software defined radio systems
• Familiar with the principles and techniques of electrical engineering
• Select components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability
• Coordinate project integration with other subsystems of a radio, including RF, FPGA, DSP, embedded firmware, etc.
• Coordinate subsystem and system level verification and validation testing
• Completion of assignments and delivery of results with general supervision/support
• Proven and effective communications skills, interpersonal skills and customer focus are a must
• Participate in product and process e3 cost reduction and product improvement efforts
• Up to 10% travel
• Ability to obtain a US security clearance

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• 2 years of experience in Project Management or Project Engineering, including indirect management of engineering teams.

• Experience with Microsoft Project or another project management tool.
• Experience with Configuration Management software or Agile.
• Experience in DFM analysis and implementation for volume manufacturing.
• Experience with…