What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Project Engineer position at AEVEX Aerospace?
Job Description
Job Description
The Senior Project Engineer is responsible for overseeing the planning, execution, and completion of engineering projects. This role involves coordinating with cross-functional teams, managing timelines, and ensuring technical excellence throughout the project lifecycle. The Senior Project Engineer acts as a technical leader and provides mentorship to junior engineers while ensuring projects meet all requirements for quality, safety, and environmental compliance.
Essential Functions
- Lead and manage engineering projects from concept through completion, ensuring on-time delivery, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
- Provide interface between Project Management, Design and Production team
- Provide technical direction and solutions for complex engineering challenges. Act as the subject matter expert for engineering designs and project specifications.
- Oversee the design and development of project plans, specifications, and engineering solutions. Ensure adherence to industry standards and best practices.
- Coordinate with external stakeholders such as clients, vendors, and contractors.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, ensuring potential issues are addressed proactively.
- Support the development of project budgets, schedules, and resources. Monitor progress and make necessary adjustments to ensure project goals are achieved.
- Ensure all engineering work complies with relevant safety, quality, and environmental regulations, as well as company policies and standards.
- Manage the tasking of technical team ensuring resources are available to support all project milestones and deliveries.
- Ensure thorough and accurate project documentation, including reports, drawings, and technical specifications.
- Perform other duties as required
Standard Essential Functions
Qualifications and Competencies
Education / Certifications
Experience
Security Clearance
About AEVEX Aerospace
AEVEX Aerospace, headquartered in Solana Beach, California, supports the U.S. national security mission and partner nation needs around the world by providing full-spectrum aviation, remote sensing, and analysis solutions. The company's capabilities include custom design and engineering; rapid prototyping; sensor integration and sustainment; aircraft modification and certification; flight test instrumentation and support; mission operations service; advanced intelligence data processing, exploitation, and dissemination solutions; and tailored hardware and software mission-system tools. AEVEX uses agile and customized approaches to rapidly define, develop, and deliver specialized solutions for airborne special mission needs for the U.S. Government, partner nations, and commercial businesses. AEVEX has major offices in California, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia.
AEVEX provides a full suite of comprehensive benefits, including a 401(k)-retirement plan, comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life insurance group coverage with a portion of the premiums paid by the company, professional development funds, and an Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) with counseling, legal help, child and elder care support, among other benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity :
AEVEX Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex (including pregnancy, breast feeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military and veteran status, marital status, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, physical disability, mental disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.
