R&D Project Engineer - Aerospace Execution

Middle River Aerostructure Systems; 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 with weekly fitness

Immediate 401k vesting

Educational Assistance

Life Insurance

Paid Time off

Job summary

ST Engineering MRAS in Baltimore seeks a Project Engineer to support multiple engineering and technology development projects in its Research & Development team. The role focuses on day-to-day execution, tracking progress, actions, deliverables, dependencies, and ensuring commitments are driven to closure.

You will be the bridge between project direction and engineering execution, resolving routine issues and escalating when necessary while developing schedules, risk registers, and dashboards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing Engineering, or related 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Organization

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Project coordination

Communication

Ownership

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Mechanical/Materials/Manufacturing Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

ST Engineering MRAS in Baltimore seeks a Project Engineer to support multiple engineering and technology development projects in its Research & Development team. The role focuses on day-to-day execution, tracking progress, actions, deliverables, dependencies, and ensuring commitments are driven to closure.

You will be the bridge between project direction and engineering execution, resolving routine issues and escalating when necessary while developing schedules, risk registers, and dashboards.