Job Title: Junior Project Engineer- Aerospace Industry

Location: East Hartford, CT / Windsor, CT

Job Description:

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

Basic Qualifications

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

2 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 a bonus

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.