Specialist, Project Engineering

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Job Title: Specialist, Project Engineer 

Job Code: 35763

Job Location: Hamilton, Ontario

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

About L3HARRIS WESCAM

As a subsidiary of L3Harris Technologies and within the Integrated Mission Systems Segment, the WESCAM division develops the most advanced optical sensor and targeting systems for global defense and military sectors, National Security, Search & Rescue and Airborne law enforcement agencies. From long-range covert surveillance missions to search and rescue operations, our MX-series systems, and the mission systems solutions they are a part of, produce stabilized high-magnification electro-optical and infrared images from airborne, marine and ground based platforms, enabling our customers to see first and act first.

About the Role

Our Lead, Project Engineers are responsible for successful product launch by project managing the Engineering activities across a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Electro-Optics, Specialty, Firmware and Software Engineers as well as a wider functional team of Operations project leads, Planners, Buyers, Production and Quality Staff.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide project leadership and technical guidance for internally and externally funded product developments
• Coordinate, prepare-for and lead presentation of design stage gate packages
• Align cross-functional development team to execute the New Product Introduction (NPI) company standard process
• Responsible for presenting to various levels of cross-functional leadership in design reviews and business meetings
• Develop and maintain project risk registers including mitigation plans, drive closure of risk actions
• Responsible for providing project forecasts and maintaining adherence to project budgets and schedules
• Lead investigations into product failures and other deficiencies utilizing root cause analysis methodology
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement mitigations for reliability risks
• Ensure corrective actions are implemented and track effectiveness in preventing reoccurrence
• Coordinate, prepare-for and co-lead presentation of monthly reliability metrics
• Use of JIRA and other project tools for Earn Value Management reporting
• Maintain project schedules to align with integrated master schedule milestones and customer contract deliverable 
• Participate in and support the bids and proposal/sales process by providing engineering inputs including feasibility, NRE, risks and schedule estimates for new products or features
• Lead project scrums, closely involved in material shortage and build meetings
• Understand and communicate cause and effect of changes affecting schedule, quality and cost
• Coordinate engineering changes and lead Enterprise Change Assessment (ECA) technical pillar through the change process
• Lead department strategic goal alignment projects as needed
• Understand and comply with the company Quality Management System

Required Education and Experiences

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience, and in lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Desired Skills and Capabilities

• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office including MS Project
• Strong technical communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent project organization and planning skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, capable of maintaining and growing relationships with stakeholders
• Understanding of electro/mechanical/optical/video systems
• Knowledge/experience using Atlassian Confluence/JIRA
• Working knowledge of root cause analysis or reliability techniques (5 Why, Cause Map, 8D, FMEA)
• A sense of urgency; dynamic, resourceful, innovative and takes initiative
• Working knowledge of mechanical design, bill of material structures and mechanical design terminology
• Working knowledge of electrical circuit design, circuit board assemblies and electrical design terminology
• Working knowledge of feedback control systems, video standards, grounding/bonding practices and motors/potentiometers/encoders and other electro-mechanical devices
• Working knowledge of optical assemblies, cameras and laser devices is an asset
• Knowledge of AS9100 Quality Standard
• Engineering degree and experience in aerospace industry preferred
• Experience designing mechanical, electrical, electro-optical, software/firmware systems/subsystems
• Experience presenting technical project content to senior leadership stakeholders
• Well-rounded project management background with experience in a highly technical environment
• PMP Certification is an asset
• P.Eng license is an asset

*This posting is for a current vacancy. In the province of Ontario, Canada, the pay range for this position will be $85,500-135,500

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