Scientist, Project Engineering

Job Title: Scientist, Project Engineer

Job Code: 14544

Job Location: Plano or Greenville, TX (100% onsite)

Schedule: 9/80 (every other Friday off)

Position requires the ability to obtain a DoD Secret Security Clearance which requires U.S. Citizenship and an extensive background check.

Job Description:

The Project Engineer (PE) holds technical responsibility and authority for the program under the authority from Engineering Leadership to execute assigned programs, as well as direct integration with the Program Manager (PM). This includes but is not limited to:

• Adhering to technical scope;
• Remaining within Engineering Program budget; and,
• Ensuring alignment with overall Program Schedule

To this end, the individual Engineering Functional Task Leaders (Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Specialty Engineering, Logistic Engineering, Technical Publications, etc.) report to/and take direction from the PE for the assigned program operations.

The PE coordinates with the Functional Managers in the utilization of and Earned Value (EV) reporting via the Labor Tracking System (LTS) to ensure consistency between the Functional and Program roll-up relative to performance against schedule and budgeted work scope.

The PE is also responsible for program technical performance that extends beyond the "Engineering" functions, to ensuring technical compliance within the total operations activities (i.e. extends to the interfaces of manufacturing and HD&L). Project Engineers are a key technical interface to Customers and have the responsibility and opportunity to interact at every phase of the program lifecycle.

Essential Functions:

• Ability to travel within the USA & working extended hours
• Leadership Skills

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.

Experience with one or more of the following areas is required:

• Program planning, guidance, and engineering execution within scope, schedule and budget
• Broad understanding of engineering processes and policies
• Bidding and Proposals
• Design, Development and Test efforts
• Systems Engineering (including Test Engineering); or,
• Software / Hardware Engineering; or
• Project Engineering;
• Leadership Skills (i.e. Task, IPT Leader and/or Functional Management)
• Executive Level Interaction and Communication (to include internal and Customer stakeholders)

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and capabilities experience
• Experience on Foreign Military Sales Programs or Direct Commercial Sales
• Agile Software Development
• MBSE Experience
• Control Account Management Experience
• Capture and Proposal Development
• Architecting mission system configurations to meet customer needs
• Ground, aircraft, space or shipborne mission system integration expertise
• COMINT and/or ELINT sensor experience
• Antenna placement and phased array architectures
• Airborne and/or Shipborne SIGINT experience