Specialist, Project Engineer

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Job Title:
Specialist, Project Engineering

Job Code: 47503

Job Location:
Waco, TX

Job Schedule: 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 is actively seeking a Specialist, Project Engineering (PE) to support software sustainment for a program. Working under general supervision, the candidate will manage assigned sustainment projects or work packages and coordinate technical, cost, and schedule activities for software maintenance, defect resolution, testing, and releases within approved program plans.

The Project Engineer works with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Integration and Test, Configuration Management, Cybersecurity, and other Engineering Functional Task Leaders to coordinate assigned sustainment work. The candidate communicates project status, explains processes, and supports customer and supplier discussions as needed, with guidance from senior project engineers and engineering leads.

The candidate also supports the capture of new business by developing assigned bid estimates and technical responses in coordination with engineering leads.

• Coordinate cross-functional engineering activities for software maintenance, defect resolution, approved enhancements, and releases within assigned sustainment projects.
• Serve as the technical coordination point for assigned software sustainment projects or work packages, working with engineering leads to meet customer, regulatory, cost, schedule, and performance requirements.
• Manage assigned software sustainment work packages on a commercial-military derivative aircraft program with FAA and military certification requirements. Coordinate sustainment of software associated with CNS/ATM architecture, mission systems, stores/munitions, and aircraft systems.
• Develop and maintain sustainment plans, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, and resource estimates for assigned projects; coordinate software baseline updates with engineering leads and configuration management.
• Coordinate review and approval of software requirements, change requests, release plans, test procedures, test results, and technical documentation with responsible engineering leads.
• Identify and track sustainment risks, dependencies, and mitigation actions, including software defects, interfaces, supportability, and release readiness; elevate impacts to scope, cost, schedule, or technical performance.
• Coordinate assessment and prioritization of software defects and change requests with engineering leads; track root cause investigations and corrective actions, escalating complex technical issues.
• Prepare technical inputs and coordinate actions for software requirements and design reviews, test readiness reviews, technical interchange meetings, and release readiness reviews.
• Track engineering performance metrics and prepare status reports on assigned work, including defect status, test progress, release milestones, risks, and actions, for engineering…