Project Engineer, Staff (Level 4)

The mission matters. So do the people behind it. With advancing defense technology at our core, what sets us apart is a culture of collaboration, purpose, and impact.

What is the mission?

For over 60 years, the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) team has supported the Navys mission to provide an affordable and credible strategic defense. We offer unique career opportunities and challenges on a program with a rich history and exciting future. We help keep this nation and our allies secure. The FBM Program is experiencing significant growth and we need your expertise to deliver amazing new technologies to our customers while maintaining the technical requirements of the strategic deterrence.

Learn about the Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile

As a Project Engineer, you will:

Serve as a FBM Integrated Product Team (IPT) lead by planning technical work scope, actively managing budget, schedule, and execution.
Ensure control accounts are completed with acceptable Cost, Schedule, and Risk to meet sales and revenue goals by communicating and providing leadership and customers with accurate and up to date status
Manage a geographically distributed multi-disciplinary team to deliver on established programmatic commitments.
Coordinate the planning, organizing, control, integration and completion of Engineering projects within area of assigned responsibility
Ensure engineering is coordinated across program and suppliers
Support add hoc tasking by program management leadersTo be effective, you will need to possess these basic qualifications:

Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
Experience with Contract Deliverables and Scope Management
Knowledge of program lifecycle and how early achievements may drive future costs
Experience in budget development or management.
Experience with Risk and Opportunity Management
IMS (Integrated Master Schedule) development or management of
Experience with Earned Value Management principles
Demonstrated ability to work with technical leads to manage cost, schedule, and technical scope
Systems thinking, technical management, or technical integration experience
US Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearanceTo be effective, ideally, you should also have:

Master's degree in a Business or Engineering field
Project management Certification (PMP)
Experience throughout engineering lifecycle (system definition, design, build, test and operational deployment)
Experience with technical integration and systems engineering.
Prior experience with Agile project implementation
Prior CAM (control account management) experience
Experience leading / integrating solutions for geographically disperse teams
Experience leading cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical issues
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong social skills, with the ability to lead multi-functional teams, build strong relationships with team members and build consensus among peers
Familiarity with Navy Strategic System Partners (SSP) Customer
Strong leadership skills
DoD TS clearance