Sr Specialist, Project Engineering
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Job Title: Sr Specialist, Project Engineering
Job Code: 21165
Job Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Job Description:
- Responsible for successfully leading a projct team to meet business requirements within allocated cost and schedule commitments in a growing business area.
- Develop, oversee, and coordinate the cost/schedule/technical aspects of ongoing engineering projects within the program guidelines set by the Program Manager and stakeholders.
- Reviews status of engineering projects and budgets, manages schedules, and prepares status reports.
- Assesses engineering issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives.
- Identifies, tracks, mitigates, manages, and dispositions program-level risks.
- Develops, monitors, and statuses detailed MS Project schedules.
- Uses Earned Value Management System (EVMS) reports to manage project performance.
- Estimate resource and material needs for the project/product
- Provides the coordination between resource managers/supervisors and ensures all necessary reviews and approvals are received.
Essential Functions:
- Experience with sustainment, operations, design and development of ground-based space systems.
- Interface with Engineering Group Leaders and Managers, as well as Program Management, Capture Management, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and Finance.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience
- Experience with best practices for project engineering, EVMS, and program execution.
- Experience in complex, multi-discipline programs including but not limited to optical, space operations, mechanical, electrical, systems, and/or software engineering with a background in space systems .
- Experience managing projects with budgets of $10M+.
- Experience with Technical Supplier Management, Risk and Opportunity Management.
- Experience implementing and adapting project execution plans that achieve technical, cost, and schedule requirements.
- Experience presenting to internal and external customers at all levels
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Secret or ability to obtain at least a Secret clearance preferred
- Experience leading Government Contract development programs preferred.
- Experience or knowledge of Government contract acquisition lifecycle a plus.
- Experience with management of design to cost activities a plus.
- Experience with program pursuit and proposal activities.
- Experience in Root Cause Corrective Action process and techniques.
- Experience with Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.
- Experience leading a multi-disciplined team of engineers.
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