Collins Aerospace is a leader in aerospace solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Project Engineer to lead projects developing complex engineering solutions. This role involves ensuring successful project execution from inception to deployment, while collaborating with engineers and leaders globally.
Responsibilities:
- Lead project execution and maintain performance metrics for decision making and continuous improvement purposes
- Manage project scope (requirements and change requests) ensuring it meets agreed to commitments
- Generate and maintain project schedules with understood dependencies, deliveries, and critical path
- Utilize Earned Value (EV) methods for managing project budget (and schedule)
- Ensure project meets quality expectations
- Identify risks and opportunities and resolve them through proactive ownership
- Prepare well-crafted presentations reporting project status to leadership teams
- Develop Engineering estimates and proposals for potential projects and gain organizational buy-in
- Facilitate communication and alignment with other groups and track low level deliverables
Requirements:
- Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience
- Proficiency with developing and maintaining schedules using Microsoft Project
- Proficiency with developing and maintaining information in Jira
- Proficiency with Agile planning and methodologies, experience with leading teams to meet deliverables
- Experience establishing and maintaining effective customer relationships
- Problem-solving skills with ability to proactively identify alternate solutions to overcome difficult technical challenges
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve operational goals
- Detail-oriented and capable of managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment