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Job Title: Senior Specialist, Project Engineering

Job Code: 42719

Job Location: Bristol, PA

Job Schedule: Full-Time, 9/80 (employees work 9 out of every 14 days, totaling 80 hours, with every other Friday off)

Job Description:

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent passionate about advancing mission-critical technologies. TRF Bristol designs, develops, manufactures, and fields qualified, ruggedized embedded hardware modules that support secure tracking, flight safety, and end-to-end communications security capabilities for United States and allied platforms. The Senior Specialist, Project Engineering role leads day-to-day engineering execution for airborne telemetry, radio frequency (RF), and embedded hardware programs, coordinating cost, schedule, and technical performance across the product lifecycle. This position works closely with engineering, program management, operations, and customers to support disciplined execution from proposal and development through qualification, test, and production support.

Essential Functions:

• Lead day-to-day cost, schedule, and technical execution of engineering projects within program guidelines established by Program Management and customer requirements.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams and Integrated Product Teams across the product lifecycle to support cohesive execution of complex airborne embedded hardware development efforts.
• Manage engineering cost and schedule performance within an Earned Value Management System (EVMS) environment, including adherence to performance metrics, development of Estimates to Complete (ETCs), and coordination with the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Plan and support major engineering and program reviews, including System Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR), and Test Readiness Review (TRR), as well as integration, qualification, and flight test readiness activities.
• Provide coordination between engineering teams, resource managers, supervisors, and program leadership to support staffing, status reporting, required reviews, approvals, and issue resolution.
• Serve as a primary technical interface with customers and suppliers, communicating program status, supporting technical discussions, and resolving execution issues affecting productivity, quality, schedule, and customer satisfaction.
• Lead project-level risk and opportunity management activities, including identification, tracking, mitigation planning, and disposition of engineering issues.
• Drive coordination across Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Program Management to support on-time, on-budget execution and transition of new products into production.
• Support bids and proposals through development of engineering scope, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) elements, Basis of Estimate (BOE) inputs, and Technical Baseline Review (TBR) activities.
• Travel as needed to support program execution, customer meetings, suppliers, and test activities; ability to obtain and maintain a United States security clearance is required.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 6 years of prior relevant engineering experience; or a Graduate degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience; or a minimum of 10 years of prior related engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience to include:
• Coordinating or leading engineering execution within defined cost, schedule, and technical requirements in a structured program environment.
• Working in an Earned Value Management System (EVMS) environment, including cost and schedule performance tracking, Estimate to Complete (ETC) development, and schedule coordination.
• Supporting hardware or embedded system development in aerospace, defense, RF, telemetry, sensor processing, or other mission-critical applications.
• Working with multidisciplinary engineering teams or Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) across the product development lifecycle.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a United States security clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to convey information effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Experience supporting bid and proposal activities, including Basis of Estimate development, Work Breakdown Structure creation, and Technical Baseline Review preparation.
• Experience supporting Defense Contract Management Agency-audited programs or other highly governed program execution environments.
• Experience supporting airborne embedded hardware, ruggedized electronics, compact aerospace modules, radio frequency (RF) systems, telemetry systems, sensor signal processing, or electronic warfare systems.
• Experience supporting system integration, environmental testing, qualification, certification, or flight test activities.
• Experience with Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) activities, supplier technical coordination, or operations and manufacturing support.
• Familiarity with communications security systems, Type 1 cryptographic equipment, or secure communications hardware.

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