Senior Project Engineer (Propulsion - Onsite)

Prattwhitney; United States; On-site; USD 96,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Three weeks of vacation

Generous 401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Student Loan Repayment Program

Life insurance and disability coverage

Job summary

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Project Engineer/Chief Engineer to lead technical coordination and execution for propulsion components and subsystems. You will work under the Program Chief Engineer, guiding cross-disciplinary teams to meet requirements, interfaces, and baselines while supporting proposals and certification activities.

The role emphasizes day-to-day project controls, risk management, and resource coordination to keep scope, schedule and costs in line with program objectives. U.S.

Qualifications

• Experience leading product development projects through SRRs, PDRs, CDRs, TRRs, and PRRS type reviews.
• Strong analytical skills including physics, dynamics, and statics.
• Direct experience with manufacturing/production support processes.
• Experience presenting design solutions to internal and external customers.
• U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate cross-discipline engineering activities at the project level.
• Ensure teams are integrated with consistent requirements, interfaces, and baselines.
• Design, communicate, and implement detailed project plans, including task breakdowns, schedules, and cost estimates.
• Lead day-to-day project controls, track progress, and provide status on technical, cost, and schedule performance.
• Prepare project-level technical inputs to proposals, statements, specifications, and estimates.
• Define and align project scope, assumptions, and constraints with program objectives.
• Translate design concepts into executable engineering tasks.
• Coordinate integration and test activities to support verification, validation, and certification/qualification objectives.
• Monitor progress, identify issues, and drive resolution to minimize impact on schedule and cost.
• Secure resources and information needed to keep the project on track.
• Provide clear project status to Chief Engineers, Program Management, and stakeholders.
• Keep risks, issues, and dependencies visible and tracked to closure.

Skills

SRR/PDR/CDR/TRR/PRRS reviews

Physics & dynamics

Manufacturing support

Customer communications

Citizenship requirement

3D CAD NX Catia

TeamCenter PLM

A&D experience

Aviation systems design

FEA / hand calculations

Education

STEM degree

Advanced degree in related field

Tools

NX CAD

Catia

TeamCenter Multi Site PLM

Job description

Collins Aerospace is a leader in technologically advanced, intelligent solutions that help redefine the aerospace and defense industry. With a comprehensive portfolio and deep technical expertise, we help customers meet the demands of the global market. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

This candidate will drive technical leadership while supporting program design, development, and testing of Propulsion components and subsystems. The position will be responsible for day-to-day technical coordination and execution leadership for projects and work packages within the scope of a Project Chief Engineer. The Project Engineer, nominally, would operate under the technical direction of a Program Chief Engineer, but for Production support, the Project Engineer works with the Program Management organization and coordinates with the engineering teams for resolution support.

What You Will Do

• You will support the technical design authority of the Project Chief Engineer by coordinating crossdiscipline engineering activities at the project level.
• Ensure that mechanical, electrical, software, systems, and other discipline teams are integrated and working to a consistent set of requirements, interfaces, and design baselines.
• You will help design, communicate, and implement detailed project plans, including task breakdowns, schedules, and cost estimates for the engineering scope.
• Lead the day-to-day execution of project controls, tracking progress against plan and providing timely status on technical, cost, and schedule performance.
• You will prepare and coordinate project-level technical inputs to proposals, work statements, specifications, and estimates.
• Ensure that project scope, assumptions, and constraints are clearly defined and aligned with higher-level program and product objectives.
• You will translate design concepts and criteria into executable engineering tasks.
• Coordinate integration and test activities, ensuring that configurations, procedures, and results support verification, validation, and, where applicable, certification/qualification objectives.
• You will monitor day-to-day progress, identify emerging technical and operational issues, and drive or coordinate their resolution to minimize impact on schedule and cost.
• Work with functional managers and Project Chief Engineers to secure the resources, information, and decisions needed to keep the project on track.
• You will provide clear, concise technical and project status to Project Chief Engineers, Program Management, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure that risks, issues, and dependencies are visible and that actions are tracked to closure.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Experience leading product development projects through SRRs PDRs, CDRs, TRRs, and PRRS type reviews.
• Strong analytical skills including strong knowledge of physics, dynamics, and statics.
• Direct experience with manufacturing/Production support processes
• Experience presenting design solutions to internal and external customers
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Qualifications We Prefer

• A minimum of 5 years of aerospace engineering experience, preferably with production support
• B.S. or M.S. in Engineering, Aerospace or Mechanical preferred
• 3D CAD experience with high end CAD software (e.q. NX, Catia,)
• Previous experience using Unigraphics/NX CAD experience including TeamCenter and TeamCenter Multi Site PLM experience
• Previous experience in the aerospace and defense industry preferred
• Previous experience with aircraft cockpit, crew station, escape system, ejection seat, or crew systems design
• Previous experience with machining, sheet metal, composites, and fabric design
• Previous experience of aerospace/military specifications
• Previous experience with FEA or Strength hand calculations

What We Offer

• Some of our competitive benefits package includes: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program

This role may be eligible for relocationAnd more! Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond?

At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow.

#MISENG As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products. At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

The salary range for this role is 95,500 USD - 181,700 USD.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.