Lead Project Engineer – Defense Missile Programs

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies in Salt Lake City seeks a Lead Project Engineer to provide technical leadership for Spitfire and LRASM/JASSM programs, integrating scope, technical performance, cost, schedule, risk, and customer commitments within the program baseline. You will be the engineering focal point among program management, engineering leads, and operations, drive issue resolution, and support reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR).

Some travel to supplier sites will be needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the engineering focal point among program management, control account managers, engineering functional leads, integrated product teams, operations, quality, supply chain, and line management
• Maintains the integrated engineering execution plan, including technical scope, staffing, schedules, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, and recovery actions
• Drives timely technical issue resolution, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and risk mitigation to protect product performance, quality, schedule
• Establishes actionable execution metrics and intervention plans; partners with Program Management and Finance to manage engineering earned value, forecasts, estimate-to-complete, and cost and schedule variance
• Coordinates resources and required approvals across engineering disciplines; ensures configuration-controlled technical decisions, interfaces, and changes are evaluated and executed
• Leads preparation for and execution of engineering and program reviews, including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, qualification, acceptance, and flight readiness activities
• Coordinates integration, verification, and production-readiness activities; communicates effectively with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders
• Comprehensive knowledge of project engineering, systems engineering, and integrated product development for complex hardware and software programs
• Demonstrated ability to translate program objectives into executable engineering plans and align cross-functional teams to the technical baseline
• Experience managing technical execution through development, integration, verification, production, delivery, and sustainment phases
• Working expertise in Earned Value Management, engineering cost and schedule estimation, forecasting, and variance analysis
• Experience coordinating across multiple engineering functions, manufacturing/operations, quality, supply chain, and program controls
• Experience communicating directly with government and industry customers and presenting technical status, risks, and decisions

Skills

Engineering leadership

EVMS / cost scheduling

Cross-functional teamwork

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's Degree + 9 years

Graduate Degree (preferred)

Tools

IMS

EVM systems

Requirements mgmt

Configuration mgmt tools

Job description

L3Harris Technologies in Salt Lake City seeks a Lead Project Engineer to provide technical leadership for Spitfire and LRASM/JASSM programs, integrating scope, technical performance, cost, schedule, risk, and customer commitments within the program baseline. You will be the engineering focal point among program management, engineering leads, and operations, drive issue resolution, and support reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR).

Some travel to supplier sites will be needed.