Project Engineer

Job Summary

Project Engineer will be the primary technical point contact with PDA leadership and program manager on specific projects/programs. Project Engineer will be responsible for all aspects of a program’s planning, monitoring, and execution by the PDA engineering organization and will act as overall development champion

Requirements

• Knowledge, understanding, and awareness of stakeholder needs
• Ability to form, lead, and motivate a cross-functional team
• Experience leading and managing people in a similar industry with ability to relate to uniqueness of team members and diverse backgrounds
• Excellent communication skills with ability to speak clearly and effectively with an appropriate level of complexity
• Applicants must be a “U.S. Persons” as defined in International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). A “U.S. Person” is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been admitted as a refugee or granted asylum

Core Competencies

• Effective strategy and decision-making skills through the application of critical thinking
• Ability to recognize and manage internal and external motivations and emotions, and delegates proficiently to maximum outcome
• Self-motivated, takes initiative and ownership

Responsibilities

• Maintains timely and effective communications with leadership team, functional leaders, teammates, and customer while coordinating with program manager
• Partners with the project and functional leaders for overall execution and delivery, to address development needs, resource plans, and quality performance objectives
• Provides overall project leadership of cross functional engineering team
• Responsible for engineering program risk management plan and actions along with development strategy
• Responsible for overall engineer planning, forecasting, reporting, issue resolution, baseline changes, transition to production, production support, and delivery (or launch and market execution)
• Liaison with department leaders to discuss and give input on projected related objectives and performance of project personnel
• Aid in bringing in new business such as SBIRs, STTRs, and BAAs as well as identifying other areas of growth.

Education/Experience

• B.A. or B.S. in applicable engineering field (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Systems, etc.)
• 8+ years of industry related experience required
• 5+ years leadership experience