Job Title:  Specialist, Project Engineering

Job Code: 17149

Job Location: Philadelphia, PA (100% On-site)

Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

The Project Engineer is responsible for the technical success of the project output within the constraints of the allocated budget and schedule.  This position’s role specifically is the technical management and coordination of engineering resources to achieve compliance with the customer technical requirements in the field of AC and DC Power Conversion and protection products. Product maturity ranges from refreshes of fielded systems to new product introduction. 

The position operates primarily as a small team leader with occasional assignments as an individual contributor. 

Typical day to day responsibilities would be driving and managing the creation, review, and submittal of project artifacts such as plans, procedures, reports, design documents, and technical manuals. All major reviews are owned by this position. This position will work intimately with engineers to provide real-time support and guidance with respect to design, testing, or system requirements.  To perform effectively, it is expected that this position be knowledgeable of system operations and understand end user needs.  This position requires a person that is highly detail oriented, structured, well-organized, and can effectively communicate large amounts of data succinctly.

Essential Functions:

• Engineering Development
  • Drive good development processes and engineering best practices
  • Follow methodologies and tools provided to improve engineering excellence
• Proposal Development
  • Participate in and/or lead the proposal process for technical WBS definition, cost estimation, risk estimation, and technical schedule creation
  • Interpret RFP requirements and lead the creation of proposal technical approach and content
• Project Management
  • Lead detailed technical WBS definition, cost estimation, risk estimation, and technical schedule creation
  • Manage day to day technical aspects of the project, including cross-functional decision making, task/schedule management, issue resolution/escalation, communication, requirements management, and risk management activities. Activities overseen include software, digital, electrical power, mechanical, configuration management, and systems engineering.
  • Participate in and/or lead activities to define system architecture and associated technical requirements
  • Conduct design reviews to ensure that product elements meet requirements (e.g., ConDr, SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, SVR, peer reviews)
  • Lead definition of technical development plans (e.g., HW Development Plan, SW Development Plan, Integration Test Plan)
  • Lead efforts for unit testing, integration testing, verification testing, and pre-production (qualification) testing including efforts for defect tracking and correction
  • Support technical efforts for customer upgrade requests and change management for released products
  • Work with functional management to obtain and manage proper engineering staffing
  • Manage engineering budget and evaluate engineering Estimate to Complete.  Identify to the Program Manager any cost growth and reasons for growth.
  • Coordinate hand off to Operations and Field Support efforts (in/out of house).

Qualifications: 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor's degree in related Engineering/Science field and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience,
  • Or, Master’s degree in progress in related Engineering/Science field and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience,
  • Or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 8 years of prior related technical and project management experience
• Ability to obtain a US DOD Secret Security Clearance which requires US Citizenship.
• 2+ years of experience of Broad based technical knowledge within a similar position in order to understand and evaluate design and development activity across the engineering functions.  Preferred emphasis in Electrical Power Conversion Engineering, Systems Engineering experience highly desired. 
• 2+ years of experience in managing the full life cycle of hardware/software products from concept to production including system architecture, design implementation, integration, and verification/validation.
• 2+ years of experience analyzing the assigned project, break down work into functional disciplines and plan out a means for the work to be accomplished. 
• 2+ years providing strong verbal communication skills for internal customer, presenting technical presentations to leadership, and having outstanding written communications.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Specific experience in power distribution, generation and/or conversion equipment development preferred.
• Experience developing engineering processes such as lean product development, Design for X (DFX), Six Sigma concepts, product life cycle management, and systems engineering
• Familiarity with the military/defense contracting environment.
• Strong practical organization, facilitation and arbitration skills.
• Proficient in MS Office suite with emphasis in excel and project.
• Strong communication skills both verbally and written
• Proficient in CAD systems preferably SolidWorks.
• Experience with PLM tools (Agile)
• Experience with MRP systems (Cost Point)

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. 
• Must have ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community and ability to effectively present information to top management.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Must have the ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, permutations etc. to electrical/electronic design and analysis.

REASONING ABILITY

• Must have ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. 
• Must have ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.) and to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to stand.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.