Scientist, Chief Engineer

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L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor for the global aerospace and defense industry. With customers mission-critical needs always in mind our more than 50000 employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space air land sea and cyber domains.

Job Title: Scientist Chief Engineer

Job Code: 32981

Job Location: Huntsville AL Culpeper VA or Camden AR

Job Schedule: Huntsville & Culpeper - 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off Camden - 4/10: Employees work 10 hour days 4 days a week

Job Description:

L3Harris Missile Solutions Segment is seeking a Chief Engineer with expertise in 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 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 U.S. Secret Security Clearance.

• Business travel up to 25%.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree engineering science or similar technical field with a minimum of 12 years of prior related engineering experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related engineering lieu of a degree minimum of 16 years of prior related engineering experience.

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

• 4 years experience communicating and presenting technical data to senior management and customers of varying technical complexity.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 7 years of Missile and Propulsion Systems domain knowledge desired.

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

• Ability to quickly understand missions customer sets drive strategy.

• 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.

  • Successfully executing multi-site engineering efforts.
    

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