PROJECT ENGINEER

About LSI

LSI is an employee-owned company that employs dynamic teams of professionals – people with the finest technical expertise, a level of passionate creativity, and a truly visionary outlook who deliver innovative training solutions that exceed our customers’ expectations. Everyone at LSI has a personal stake in our success.  LSI has over 400 training support experts, engineers, and craftsmen on staff who develop state-of-the-art high-fidelity training devices, complex computer-based, highly interactive distributed learning products, and comprehensive, dynamic technical publications. LSI employee-owners collaborate to deliver training products and services for a myriad of programs and customers, using leading-edge technology and proven processes.

Mission

Our mission is to prepare our military and allies to be battle-ready through cutting-edge training products and services.

Vision

Our vision is to be the premier provider of military training solutions, renowned for our innovation and excellence. Through employee-ownership and teamwork, we will shape a future where every military service member is equipped to succeed in their mission.

Guiding Principles

ESOP Sustainability: We do everything within our control to meet project budgets and schedules, so our ESOP prospers.

Take Ownership: Each Employee-Owner takes ownership at the individual level for their words, actions, and results. Individual ownership breeds accountability. Accountability breeds trust.  When we hold ourselves accountable and trust our fellow employee-owners to do the same, we realize success. 

Clear Communication: We project confidence in our communication using unambiguous language and providing clear purpose and direction.

Pursuit of Excellence: We aggressively pursue continuous improvement both as teams and individual employee-owners. We strive to get better every day. There is no room for mediocrity.

Pride in Our Work: We know the value of our work and are proud of what we produce.

Customer Focus: Customers are both internal and external and we strive to give both our best efforts.

Assume Positive Intent: Assume others are well-intentioned in their actions and seek additional information about the circumstances to help solve problems. Assuming positive intent in all interactions is the key to building strong teams and working together to solve problems.

One Voice: Every Employee-Owner is expected to speak up if they have an idea for improvement or if they disagree with a potential course of action. Once a decision is made, the entire team commits to it and moves forward with one voice.

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General Summary    

The Project Engineer is responsible for all technical aspects of a project, including technical leadership, solution development, and advanced design and implementation of real-time software and hardware systems for training devices.

Essential Job Functions

• Generates technical solutions that satisfy system requirements.
• Communicates with, and ensures good communication between engineering disciplines, program management, and other departments.
• Reviews requirements and generates architectural solutions based on a wide knowledge of hardware and software.
• Analyzes, designs, and implements real-time software and hardware systems for aviation aircrew and maintenance training devices.
• Schedules daily workload for the engineering team and supervises engineers assigned to their project. Conducts regular status meetings with engineering and production team members.
• Identifies schedule issues regarding schedule conflicts and provides inputs to the Program Manager. Makes recommendations to improve the schedule and manpower.
• Develops a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) when required to establish a project development structure.
• Attends and briefs project status and engineering issues at Systems Engineering Technical Review (SETR) events and In-Progress Reviews (IPR), ensuring discrepancies noted by the reviewing authority are recorded as appropriate Action Items.
• Constructively and harmoniously works with the engineering team, management, and customers to ensure budget, timeline, and scope requirements are met.
• Performs testing at customer sites as well as early testing on pre-release products.
• Develops technical proposals and responds to Sources Sought, RFP's, and RFls in conjunction with the marketing team, assuring they are technically accurate and professionally presented.
• Develops training level of effort estimates for customers.
• Must be capable of safely handling government-furnished equipment and materials.
• Must be available to work a standard weekly schedule with overtime as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Must have a wide range of simulation knowledge in hardware and software in order to recommend solutions to best fit customer requirements.
• Candidate must be self-motivated.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to establish priorities to ensure tasks are accomplished on schedule.
• Respond to tasks and mentorship from Engineering Manager.
• Must be able to obtain a security clearance when required by the contract.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering major and five (5) years of experience in engineering discipline; or
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and seven (7) years of experience in an engineering discipline; or 
• HS diploma or equivalent and nine (9) years of experience in engineering.
• Advanced degree in engineering preferred.