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Job Title: Sr Scientist, Digital Engineering Lead

Job Code: 21274

Job Location: Huntsville, AL or Canoga Park, CA

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

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking an experienced Digital Engineering (DE) Lead the incorporation of digital engineering practices throughout the Aerojet Rocketdyne (AR) Segment's product development lifecycle. This role is pivotal in advocating for and executing advanced digital methodologies, including model-based systems engineering (MBSE), model-based definition (MBD), modeling & simulation (M&S), product lifecycle management (PLM), finite element analysis (FEA), and digital thread utilization. These efforts aim to boost efficiency, precision, and collaboration among multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Key responsibilities of this position encompass establishing a robust digital engineering architecture framework, developing standardized processes, integrating custom tools for widespread project adoption, and rolling out comprehensive training programs to ensure the workforce is proficient in these cutting-edge technologies. The AR Digital Engineering Lead will also play a vital role in evaluating the effectiveness of digital engineering initiatives, ensuring alignment with the organization's objectives, fostering collaboration with other L3Harris segments to enhance DE capabilities, representing AR's DE interests to customers and within the industry, and providing progress updates to senior leadership.This digital ecosystem will optimize the way engineers perform their standard tasks within the AR business workflow, operating on a secure, distributed infrastructure.

Essential Functions:

• Craft and execute a strategic roadmap for digital engineering, spanning from its inception to its realization
• Evaluate the effectiveness of digital engineering projects, ensuring alignment with company objectives, working in conjunction with other L3Harris segments to enhance digital engineering proficiencies, and advocating for AR's digital engineering interests in discussions with clients and the broader industry
• Establish and maintain a digital engineering ecosystem tailored to the unique business requirements of AR, while ensuring compatibility with the broader L3Harris digital environments
• Engage with both internal and external stakeholders, such as executive leadership, clients, and vendors, to synchronize anticipated outcomes and project deliverables
• Inspire and rally stakeholders around the adoption of digital engineering methodologies, drawing from verified sources of truth throughout every stage of product creation and operational processes
• Develop and implement efficient digital engineering workflows, utilizing advanced tools and methodologies, with a commitment to ongoing refinement post-initial deployment
• Ensure that digital engineering activities comply with relevant industry standards, regulations, and company policies
• Represent AR in multiple industry consortiums, groups and organizations to coordinates effort as part of defining digital engineering data standards
• Develop a governance framework for the initiative to ensure structured oversight and management
• Ability to obtain a US Top Secret Security Clearance
• Travel: 10%

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior engineering experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior engineering experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior engineering experience
• Active US Secret Security Clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Engineering degree is preferred
• Demonstrated success in designing and successfully deploying full digital engineering processes and ecosystems in an Aerospace and Defense Company
• Demonstrated leadership role in defining and executing company and engineering initiatives
• Experience in the design and development of mechanical and electro-mechanical aerospace and defense systems
• Experience collaborating with Information Technology to integrate and manage engineering software tools. This includes defining tool interfaces and developing solutions to connect them into an integrated digital ecosystem
• Demonstrated track record of knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching
• Recognized publications, patents, membership in key professional society technical committees (e.g. INCOSE or AIAA) & government advisory boards (e.g. for USAF or NASA)

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in Colorado State, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Vermont and New York State is $157,000-$291,500. For California, Seattle, Washington D.C., Maryland Greater Washington D.C. area, the city of Denver, Washington State and New York City, the salary range for this role is $180,500.- $335,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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