Deputy Chief Engineer

Job Title: Deputy Chief Engineer

Job Code: 24698

Job Location: Rochester NY (onsite)

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

Job Description:

The Deputy Chief Engineer/Engineering Project Owner is a vitally important role working alongside the Chief Engineer sharing accountability for managing radio products to deliver solutions aligned with business goals and customers critical missions.

The Deputy Chief Engineer/Engineering Project Owner will share responsibilities with the Chief Engineer for technical and managerial leadership over the product via successful execution of assigned projects assuring product deliverables in accordance with established capability budget schedule and quality commitments from product conception to end of life.

The role of a Deputy Chief Engineer is to gain experience across the following Essential Functions growing into a role of a Chief Engineer taking on overall responsibilities of a product/system.

Essential Functions:

• Driving strategic direction of products and services including defining product roadmaps and capability sets in collaboration with Product Line Management and Program Management
• Partnering with Program Management to ensure the technical schedule and cost targets of assigned programs are properly defined and met
• Overseeing product development for IRAD/EAID projects and Government programs by developing Integrated Project Plans (IPP) with the Integrated Project Team from creation through approval. The IPP documents the scope budget and baselined schedule defines team and project roles/responsibilities and identifies issues and risks. Following the IPP approval monitoring progress guiding the team through the execution of all required tasking including technical content cost schedule and deliverables of assigned projects and programs
• Engaging and working closely with Engineering functional leads (Hardware/ Software/ Systems/ Integration & Test) to ensure accountability in meeting established commitments and deadlines
• Enabling value engineering product commonality reuse cross-product alignment and scalability via effective collaboration with various product leadership teams
• Driving engineering productivity performance improvements by providing inputs into project management processes tools and metric collection methodologies
• Assuming ownership of product quality costs yield improvements and work in progress (WIP)
• Delivering solutions to product obsolescence and critical part shortages
• Capturing of new business opportunities by supporting customer interchanges product briefings / demonstrations pursuits and proposals identifying Engineering scope partnering with functional teams on Basis of Estimates and reviewing the bid with the Engineering leadership team
• Assisting Portfolio Chief Engineer with planning for IRAD technology development implementing product sustainment initiatives introducing new products/systems to the factory and preparing for status briefings in support of organizational objectives and commitments.
• Ability to obtain a US security clearance

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience in project engineering. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience in project engineering. In lieu of a degree minimum of 13 years of prior related experience in project engineering.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Domain knowledge (hardware software project management) and experience with tactical radio products
• Self-starter ability to work independently show strong judgment be decisive and work with others to drive towards a common solution
• Leadership capability to guide multi-functional engineering teams without formal supervisory role
• Demonstrated experience managing products through design development integration and test phases including Technical Cost Schedule Risk
• Exemplary planning and management skills
• Ability to articulate key message summaries to business executives
• Ability to learn new skills meet deadlines embrace new technologies and follow process
• Experience with Earned Value Management System
• Experience working in DevOps or Agile environments be familiar with continuous integration concepts and establish quality assurance benchmarks

In compliance with pay transparency requirements the salary range for this role in New York State is $108500 - $201500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits including health and disability insurance 401(k) match flexible spending accounts EAP education assistance parental leave paid time off and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire schedule type and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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