Lead Project Engineer

The T55 Project Engineering team has an opening for a Lead Project Engineer. Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate the interest, aptitude, and experience associated with the design, development, test and support of gas turbine engines for rotary-wing applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development and in-service support activity for a component, module or engine test through all aspects of the Integrated Product Delivery and Support (IPDS) process, on schedule, on budget and in compliance with all technical requirements.
• Broad indirect span of control of approximately 10 full time equivalent engineers.
• Cost account manager for assigned scope, including Earned Value Management System reporting. Annual budgetary responsibility approximately $4M.
• Expected to serve as the single point leader for the component, module or test assignments
  • Lead a diverse cross functional team to accomplish the scope
  • Escalate effectively with leadership and cross-functionally across the organization
• Strong commitment to customer satisfaction
• Bias toward creative thinking and innovation in product design and approach to everyday work
• Implement design-to-cost and variation-reduction strategies
• Promote and build strong team working relationships
• Manage within very difficult resource constraints
• Identify gaps and risks on behalf of the team
• Balances workload of the team members
• Monitor work of team members to recognize when they are “stuck” or “off track”
• Leverages technical experts to review the technical work of the team
• Leads trade studies and RCCA activities
• Communicate project status with internal and external customers
• Guide and develop early career engineers

YOU MUST HAVE

• Must be a US Citizen
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• 8+ years’ engineering experience in design, development, and/or test of complex mechanical system.

WE VALUE

• Prior experience leading gas turbine engine design and development activities.
• Testing of moderately complex systems.
• Excellent oral and written communications.
• Program/Project Management experience.
• Strong cost account management skills.
• Demonstrates a bias for action and ability to work independently.
• Prioritizes time and resources effectively.
• Ability to build constructive working relationships with internal customers and suppliers.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in a matrix organization to accomplish technical objectives under strict schedule constraints