Lead, Project Engineer - SLN Sustainment

Lead, Project Engineer

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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.

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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 Location:

USA-UT-Salt Lake City

Job Schedule:

9/80, work 9 out of every 14 days (totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off)

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Harris is seeking a Project Engineer to support technical execution across assigned programs and lifecycle activities for complex systems and products. This role is responsible for coordinating cross-functional engineering efforts, supporting issue resolution, and helping ensure technical, cost, and schedule objectives are met. The Project Engineer will work closely with program leadership, customers, and functional teams to translate requirements into actionable plans, track progress, and support execution priorities throughout the product lifecycle.

• Lead cross-functional technical execution for sustainment of fielded mission network and LOS communications systems.
• Drive troubleshooting, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and repair-cycle recovery for issues impacting system readiness and mission availability.
• Translate customer needs, field feedback, and operational issues into actionable technical plans, priorities, and engineering tasks.
• Coordinate engineering, integration and test, logistics, manufacturing, supply chain, and program management activities required to sustain deployed system performance.
• Support technical planning and execution of maintenance, modification, verification, regression test, and field support activities associated with fielded systems.
• Manage technical risks, issues, action items, schedules, and sustainment metrics, and communicate status to internal leadership and customers.
• Ensure engineering changes to fielded systems are properly evaluated, documented, implemented, and verified in accordance with established processes.
• Serve as a primary technical interface to customers and internal stakeholders for sustainment execution, issue resolution, and technical performance discussions.
• Ability to travel up to 15% based on business needs.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or other related technical field and a minimum of 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.
• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance required on day 1, with the ability to obtain and maintain higher level clearance as required, which requires U.S. Citizenship.

• Demonstrated prior experience in project engineering, systems engineering, sustainment engineering, or related technical leadership roles supporting fielded systems.
• Demonstrated prior experience with mission networks, LOS communications systems, secure communications systems, or related networked mission capabilities.
• Demonstrated prior experience with troubleshooting, root cause analysis, corrective action development, and technical issue resolution for operational or fielded systems.
• Demonstrated prior experience leading cross-functional technical execution in a small-program environment or similarly complex mission-focused setting.
• Demonstrated prior experience working directly with customers and internal stakeholders to communicate technical status,…