Job Title:Senior Specialist, Project Engineering 

Job Code: 17891

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.
• 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.
• Experience with production phase of program life cycle.

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: (refer to Career Framework)

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience, or 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, mechanical, electrical, systems, software, and thermal engineering with a background in Avionics.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience in software development and integration programs.
• Experience managing projects with budgets of $10M+.
• 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.
• 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.