Project Engineer - Research and Development

ST Engineering; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 65,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

Health Flexible Spending Accounts

Free Onsite Gym

Immediate 401k vesting

Educational Assistance

Life Insurance

Paid Time off

Job summary

ST Engineering MRAS is seeking a Project Engineer to support multiple engineering and technology development projects within the R&D team. You will drive day-to-day execution, track progress, and coordinate actions across concurrent workstreams.

You will work with engineering leadership to resolve routine issues, maintain schedules, and help ensure commitments are completed. This role offers exposure to diverse technical disciplines and leadership opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering field is required.
• Strong organizational and analytical problem-solving abilities.
• A proven ability to coordinate multiple activities and teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain day-to-day visibility of progress across multiple engineering workstreams.
• Track actions, deliverables, dependencies, and schedules to drive on-time closure.
• Escalate issues with context, impact, and potential paths forward.
• Support development of project schedules, risk registers, and dashboards.
• Prepare status reports and facilitate reviews with leadership.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Mechanical/Materials Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

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Project Engineer - Research and Development

We are seeking a proactive, highly organized Project Engineer to support the execution of multiple engineering and technology development projects within our Research & Development team.

Working closely with engineering leadership and technical team members, the Project Engineer will help drive day-to-day execution across multiple concurrent workstreams. You will focus on maintaining visibility of project progress, tracking actions and deliverables, coordinating activities, identifying emerging issues and dependencies, and helping ensure that project commitments are driven to closure.

You will serve as a key link between project-level direction and day-to-day engineering execution. You will work closely with engineers to understand progress and obstacles, help resolve routine execution issues, and identify situations requiring leadership input before they become significant project impacts.

This role is ideal for an engineer who is organized, resourceful, curious, and comfortable working across technical disciplines. You will have an opportunity to develop a broad understanding of engineering development programs and grow toward increasing levels of project and technical leadership responsibility.

Who WE are and where WE are going

At ST Engineering MRAS, our employees have amazing opportunities to work on advanced technologies and systems that support thousands of customers and millions of people worldwide every day. From the first flight across the Pacific Ocean to developing highly complex structures for the most popular aircraft in the world, we have come a long way always with a can-do approach to problem solving while delighting customers with our high say-do ratio. We are looking for people with innovative ideas and the drive to help us grow into the future.

A pioneer in the production and assembly of complex aerostructures including aircraft and rocket components, engine nacelle systems, thrust reversers and advanced composite products, we apply the latest digital technologies and automation in composite design and manufacturing that are second to none. At ST Engineering MRAS, we are also rapidly augmenting our maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) capabilities leveraging the company’s expanded aircraft nacelle portfolio as well as it’s materials and processing expertise.

What YOU will do

• Project Execution & Coordination
• Maintain day-to-day visibility of progress across multiple engineering development workstreams.
• Track project actions, deliverables, dependencies, and schedules and drive timely closure of commitments.
• Work with team members and supporting functions to resolve routine project execution issues and maintain progress.
• Identify emerging technical, schedule, resource, or organizational issues and coordinate appropriate corrective actions.
• Escalate issues requiring leadership involvement promptly, providing sufficient context, impact, and potential paths forward.
• Serve as a day-to-day project execution resource for engineering team members.
• Help engineering team members navigate project processes, organizational interfaces, dependencies, and obstacles.
• Facilitate communication and coordination between team members where activities or decisions are interdependent.
• Help maintain team alignment with project priorities as circumstances and plans evolve.
• Project Planning & Controls
• Support development and maintenance of project schedules, milestone plans, action trackers, and other project-management tools.
• Maintain project risk, issue, and opportunity registers and ensure identified mitigation actions are tracked.
• Support resource planning and coordination across multiple concurrent projects.Assist with development of recovery plans when project activities deviate from schedule.
• Develop and maintain project dashboards and other tools that provide clear visibility of project status.
• Project Communication & Reviews
• Coordinate project meetings, planning sessions, and technical reviews.
• Prepare meeting agendas and supporting material and document decisions, actions, owners, and commitments.
• Support preparation of project status reports and management, customer, and technical reviews.
• Communicate project status, emerging issues, and required decisions clearly and concisely to project leadership.

What YOU must bring to Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing Engineering, or another related engineering or technical field.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to coordinate multiple simultaneous activities, priorities, and workstreams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of actions and follow through to completion.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and other standard engineering/project-management tools.
• This position involves access to export-controlled technology which requires U.S. Person status or government authorization. A ‘U.S. Person,’ as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62, includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, individuals lawfully admitted for permanent residence (green card holders), and individuals granted asylum or refugee status in the United States. To be considered for this position, you must either be a U.S. Person or fall within a legally recognized export control exception or authorization. If hired, you will be required to provide valid proof of such status

Desired Characteristics

• Previous experience in an engineering, manufacturing, R&D, or technical project environment.
• Experience supporting engineering development programs involving multiple technical disciplines.Experience developing or maintaining project schedules, action trackers, risk registers, or project dashboards.
• Familiarity with engineering development, manufacturing, procurement, testing, and supplier-management processes.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Project or equivalent project planning and scheduling tools.
• Experience in aerospace, composites, advanced manufacturing, or technology development environments.
• Proactive, resourceful, and strongly oriented toward follow-through and closure.
• Curious and willing to ask questions to understand unfamiliar technical and project issues.
• Comfortable engaging directly with team members to understand progress and identify obstacles.
• Able to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous situations.
• Sound judgment regarding when to act independently and when to elevate.
• Collaborative, adaptable, and comfortable working across different technical disciplines and levels of the organization.

At ST Engineering, we offer great rewards,competitive pay,career advancementandgrowth opportunities.

Estimate salary range for this role: $64,500 to $95,900 per year.ST Engineering considers several factors with extending job offers, including but not limited to candidates’ key skills, relevant work experience, education/training/certification, job level, and work location. Base salary is only one component of our competitive Total Rewards package.

As a full-time employee of ST Engineering- MRAS, you are eligible for our benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage starting from start date
• Health Flexible Spending Accounts
• Free Onsite Gym with weekly fitness classes
• Immediate 401k vesting
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time off (Permissive for exempt staff)

Employment Notice: Background and Drug Screening Requirements

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and secure workplace, successful completion of a background check and drug screening is a mandatory condition for employment. All offers of employment are contingent upon satisfactory results from these screenings.

It takes diverse talent to solve real-world problems. ST Engineering is deeply committed to building a workplace community where inclusion is valued, and everyone feels welcomed. We’re proud to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other legally protected grounds. So, bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s through our differences that innovative changes are made.

ST Engineering is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please contact our Talent Strategies team at 571-771-0101, or by email at [e-mail] .