Job Title: Lead, Project Engineering 

Job Code: 17676

Job Location:  Alpharetta, GA 

Job Description:   

• Responsible for successfully leading a project team to meet business requirements within allocated cost and schedule commitments in a growing business area. 

• Spearheads the development and coordination of the cost/schedule/technical aspects of ongoing engineering projects within the program guidelines set by the Program Manager and stakeholders. 

• Leads cadence 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. 

• Leader in Earned Value Management System (EVMS) and 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 design and development of electronics or displays for military avionics. 

• 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 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 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, mechanical, electrical, systems, software, and thermal engineering with a background in Avionics. 

• Experience in software development and integration programs. 

• Experience managing projects with budgets of $20M+. 

• Experience with Technical Supplier Management, Risk and Opportunity Management. 

• Ability to implement and adapt project execution plans that will achieve technical, cost, and schedule requirements. 

• Ability to present to internal and external customers at all levels.               

Preferred Additional Skills: 

• 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.