Job Role: Project Engineer

Location: East Hartford, CT / Windsor, CT

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.