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Summary of Job Purpose:

The Project Engineer is responsible for the following:
• Lead and guide engineering product development teams for new or legacy or improved products and/or processes.
• Acts as project leader with technical responsibility for planning, organizing, and conducting complex technical projects or major phases of projects involving the design and certification of new or improved products and/or processes.
• Lead engineering projects from inception to certification or qualification, and production transfer to Manufacturing Engineering.
• Lead engineering projects in sustaining for operations support, design changes, supplier and customer requests and production support.
• Coordinate Engineering activities and or projects with other departments, especially Program Management. This includes, budget, schedule, milestones and deliverables for Engineering.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for the overall technical coordination of the design of our products and/or processes.
• Interface with the department managers to build the best team suitable for each project. Ensure that specific assignments are done in accordance to individual's skills.
• Provide leadership and guidance for Engineering teams assigned to a specific project and/or related activities.
• In conjunction with Program Management prepare project schedule, budget, control cost, perform risk management and mitigation as well as product assurance activities.
• Ensure that Design to Manufacturing and Design to Cost is taken into account during the early conception phases and provide feedback to the design team, from the Manufacturing floor.

Education / Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited institution
- Minimum 5 years of Engineering experience in an Automotive, Aerospace or Medical Device
- Minimum 5 years of project leadership experience


Skills and Abilities:
• The candidate should have had experience in leading complete engineering project level programs
• The candidate should have had experience in supporting operations in a serial production environment
• The candidate should have good people skills.
• The candidate should have knowledge of fundamentals of aerospace electrical or mechanical design and a wide range of knowledge in basic electrical or mechanical design.
• Full understanding of MIL specs, processes & procedures.
• Project management experience including schedule, budget, technical risk, task management.
• Experience with Root Cause Corrective Action RCCA, experience with Non Conformances
• Knowledge of ENOVIA or other Product Data Management (PDM) system for documentation control and workflow is desired.
• Must have the ability to communicate technical information, whether written or verbal to other functional departments throughout the organization and to customers. Includes creation and participation of group presentations.
• Experience with Microsoft Project.
• Experience with Earn Value Management EVM.
• Experience with DOORS management tool a plus