Job Title: Lead, Chief Engineer

Job Code: 33476

Job Location: Huntsville, AL Or Orange, VA

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:  

L3Harris' Missile Solutions Segment seeks a Chief Engineer with expertise in missile systems and/or missile propulsion systems. The person in this position will be deployed as Chief Engineer responsible for the technical strategy and technical execution of ongoing customer funded efforts. This includes all phases of development from pre-award concept development, proposal development, through design, testing and verification, and on to production, deployment and operational acceptance. The Chief Engineer will be responsible for directing the execution activities of all engineering disciplines for existing programs and new pursuits.

Essential Functions: 

• Leadership of systems and propulsion systems design, with a strong focus on continuous improvement related to meeting design milestones on time, and within budget. 
• Co-ownership of metrics related to MRB and Nonconformance rates and closure times for Production Programs, as well as production delivery metrics.
• Identify IR&D efforts and drive alignment with technical roadmaps to create technology differentiators
• Leadership of pursuits with emphasis on technical baseline rigor, cost justification, executability, and risk management.
• Leads/contributes to program risk/opportunity management and drives mitigation / realization actions.
• Responsible for technical issue resolution, ensures root cause is identified and corrective actions are executed to plan.
• Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance.
• Travel: 25%.

Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior propulsion or chief engineering experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior propulsion or chief engineering experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior propulsion chief engineering experience.   

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 7+ years of Missile and Propulsion Systems domain knowledge is desired.
• Experience leading technical issue resolution via root cause investigation and identification of effective corrective action(s) is preferred.
• Expertise in communicating technical data to senior management and customers of varying technical complexity.
• Strong multi-disciplinary technical breadth in Missiles and Propulsion is preferred.
• Ability to quickly understand missions, customer sets, and drive strategy.

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