Senior Project Engineer (Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead)

East Hartford, Connecticut

Fulltime

Primary Responsibilities

• Own the schedule, cost, performance, and process for driving success on cross-functional aerospace engineering projects.

• Manage the design and integration of complex assemblies

• Host and coordinate integrated product team meetings with key stakeholders

• Develop and participate in product design reviews

• Act as the customer representative and main point of contact to their external customers

• Maintain an ongoing action item tracker and hold stakeholders accountable to drive on-time action item closure

• Generate status reports and present project status to external and internal stakeholders on a regular basis

• Proactively identify project scope, budget, and schedule risks and implement strategies to minimize risk and overcome project success barriers.

• Follow defined processes to update and maintain customer systems and databases (including PLM software) with the latest project status

• Participate in ad-hoc project engineering initiatives, such as failure investigations (RRCAs), engineering changes (configuration management), earned value management systems (EVMS)

• Leverage your engineering knowledge to have informed, technical discussions across engineering groups to have a thorough understanding of technical project performance

• Visit customers in-person as needed to drive project progress

• Escalate project barriers and risks as needed

• Own and maintain all project documentation

• Coordinate with suppliers as needed

• Follow all required standard work, and adhere to all compliance and regulation requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering or related field

• 5 year(s) of relevant experience

• Direct experience acting as a senior project engineer or IPT Lead

• Experience working with Teamcenter or other PLM software

• Ability to proactively take action to drive on-time results

• Outstanding communication and technical writing skills

• Excellent customer service skills

• Must be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP Certification preferred

• Experience managing projects through the engineering design process

• An understanding of engineering outsourcing business practices

• Knowledge of inspections procedures, such as FPI, MPI, X-Ray, etc.

• Knowledge of common metal hardware repair types, such as blend repairs, coating repairs, welding repairs, etc.

• Exposure to project or program management

• Experience writing or creating standard work, establishing processes, and documenting lessons learned

• Experience with Adobe Framemaker

• An alignment with LTTS company values, including: Being Purposeful, Ethics & Integrity, Caring, A Culture of Learning, and Results with Accountability.