Chief Engineer

Job Title: Chief Engineer

Job Code: 38850

Job Location: Huntsville, AL 

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' Missle Solutions Segment seeks a Chief Engineer with expertise in development of missile systems and/or missile propulsion systems. The person in this position will be deployed as a 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 vehicle and propulsion systems design, with a strong focus on continuous improvement related to meeting design milestones on time, and within budget. 


• Strong leadership and agility to be decisive and communicate strategic vision in development environments with often incomplete technical requirements, aggressive schedule demands, and high quality standards.


• Coordination of engineering efforts with supply chain and operations for development efforts.


• 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.


• Travel: 25%.


• Ability to obtain a US Secret Security Clearance.

Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior propulsion and/or Chief Engineering experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior propulsion and/or Chief Engineering experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior propulsion and/or Chief Engineering experience.


• 5+ years proficiency in leading technical issue resolution via root cause investigation and identification of effective corrective action(s).

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Expertise in communicating technical data to senior management and customers of varying technical complexity.


• 7+ years of Propulsion and Vehicle Systems domain knowledge is desired.


• Strong multi-disciplinary technical breadth in Missiles and Propulsion.


• Ability to quickly understand missions, customer sets, drive strategy.


• Successfully executing multi-site engineering efforts.


• Experience with:

• Requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management.


• Leading large, complex, and multidisciplinary teams on engineering development programs.


• Technology innovation and owning technology roadmaps, prototyping efforts, and reference architectures.


• Leading efforts to optimize engineering processes for efficiency and compliance.


• Scaling engineering talent, growing technical teams, and staffing programs effectively to meet customer/program needs.


• Design for manufacturability and cost.

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