Lead, Quality Project Engineer

Job Title: Lead Quality Project Engineer

Job Code: 33138

Job Location: Huntsville AL Orange VA -OR- Camden AR

Job Schedule: Huntsville & Orange - 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 shifts - 4 days a week

Job Description:

The Missile Solutions Segment of L3Harris is seeking a Lead Project Quality Engineer to support Quality & Mission Assurance (Q&MA) execution across a regional manufacturing footprint. This role is one of three complementary positions that together form an integrated Q&MA execution team enabling consistent delivery of quality schedule and risk mitigation outcomes across programs and sites. This role can work out of our offices in Huntsville Alabama Orange Virginia or Camden Arkansas. This role provides project management structure execution discipline and facilitation that allows manufacturing-focused quality and continuous improvement leaders to operate effectively. The position does not operate independently; success is defined by how well the team executes together.

Essential Functions:

• Provide project management scheduling and coordination for Q&MA initiatives executed by the team.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning execution and review sessions.
• Maintain integrated schedules milestones risks and dependencies.
• Support execution of APQP manufacturing risk mitigation and improvement plans.
• Enable data-driven execution through metrics dashboards and status reporting.
• Align stakeholders and remove execution barriers.
• Partner closely with manufacturing quality and continuous improvement teammates to enable disciplined execution.
• Coach teams on project rigor accountability and follow-through.
• Up to 30% business travel to L3Harris manufacturing sites.
• Ability to obtain US Security Clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and minimum of 9 years of prior quality engineering experience; Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior quality engineering experience; In lieu of a degree a minimum of 13 years of prior quality engineering experience.
• 4 years project management experience in manufacturing or quality environment.
• 4 years facilitation organization and communication skills in a professional work environment.
• 4 years of working knowledge of manufacturing operations and quality systems.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience in manufacturing and quality preferably defense aerospace automotive or similar industries.
• PMP certification or equivalent.
• Familiarity with APQP and manufacturing risk management.
• Prior leadership experience with direct reports or cross-functional teams.
• Ability to teach coach and influence without formal authority.
• Experience collaborating within a Microsoft 365 environment with proficiency in the included applications (e.g. Word Excel PowerPoint Teams)
• Regulatory & Auditing (AS9100) in the Aerospace and Defense Industry.

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