Specialist, Project Lead - CCA/PCB Design

L3Harris Technologies; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies in Salt Lake City seeks a Specialist, Project Lead for CCA/PCB design. You will drive schedule and cost performance, guide cross‑functional teams, and support program leadership with execution tracking and milestone delivery.

The role requires strong planning, risk management, and communication skills to ensure on-time, within-budget circuit card development against complex security programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of project management experience with cost and schedule tracking.
• Graduate Degree plus 2+ years of related experience; in lieu of a degree, 6+ years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate schedule management, budget control, milestone delivery and team collaboration.
• Monitor project status, organize cost and schedule information, identify risks and recovery actions.
• Interface between functional and project leadership to align activities and milestones.
• Support scheduling key gate reviews and ensure proper review content and action item resolution.
• Assist with cost estimation for bid/proposal efforts and other pursuits.

Skills

Earned Value Management

Project planning

Strong written and verbalcommunication

Multitasking / prioritization

Education

Bachelor’s Degree required

Graduate Degree preferred

Tools

Jira

MS Project

Confluence

Collaborator

Deltek ProPricer

Siemens Teamcenter

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Visio

Job description

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title:

Specialist, Project Lead/Engineer – CCA/PCB Design

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Job Location:

Salt Lake City, Utah

Job Schedule:

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

Job Description:

L3Harris is currently seeking a Specialist, Project Lead for the circuit card assembly (CCA) and printed circuit board (PCB) design teams. The individual will join the design team and contribute to schedule management, budget control, milestone delivery, and team collaboration. The team member will be responsible for coordinating the technical execution of circuit card assembly development efforts while providing direct support to program leadership in the areas of schedule, budget, and execution tracking. This person may participate in cost estimation for bid and proposal efforts for future work—i.e. pursuits. The CCA/PCB Project Lead will monitor project status, organize and communicate cost and schedule information, identify risks, and generate recovery actions. The individual will regularly interface between functional and project leadership teams to ensure alignment between activities. This team member will help ensure circuit card development efforts are executed efficiently, on schedule, and within budget while maintaining visibility into key technical milestones, deliverables, and dependencies. The individual will assist with scheduling key gate reviews, ensure persons attending the reviews have had adequate time to review the content, verify action items from the reviews are properly resolved, and support our culture of timely reviews of critical design artifact releases.

Essential Functions:

• Uses and understands Earned Value Management System (EVMS). Primary owner for control accounts to analyze schedule and cost variances. Implements corrective action plans to correct deficiencies.
• Determines Estimate to Complete (ETC) on a monthly basis for headcount and workload predictions.
• Has strong skills in project planning and task coordination. Partners with functional and program teams to create Integrated Master Schedules (IMSs) to link hardware schedules with overarching project milestones.
• Can work closely with design engineers, systems engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and program management.
• Demonstrates experience supporting or leading technical reviews, status reviews, and design review preparation.
• Has strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to present technical and programmatic status to stakeholders.
• Able to identify schedule, cost, and technical risks and help drive mitigation and recovery plans.
• Is proficient with common project tracking and reporting tools.
• Able to manage multiple priorities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant project management experience including financial and schedule tracking. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience leading or coordinating CCA/PCB (aka PWA/PWB) hardware-development efforts in a cross-functional engineering environment.
• Familiarity with hardware development lifecycle requirements, configuration management, and change control processes.
• Familiar with Jira, MS Project, or other schedule software.
• Familiar with Confluence and Collaborator peer review and note tools.
• Familiar with cost estimating tools such as Deltek ProPricer.
• Experienced in PLM tools—ideally Siemens Teamcenter.
• Ability to obtain a US DoD security clearance.
• Proficient with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio software.
• Familiarity with aerospace/defense hardware-design lifecycles.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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