Project Engineer - Aerospace

REAL TIME CONSULTING (An RTCo Company)—POSITION

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Project Engineer - Aerospace ABOUT THE JOB:

The Project Engineer (PE) manages the technical aspects of a specific project or effort and ensures technical, schedule, and cost targets are met. The PE is both a project manager and technical leader/expert. A PE’s duties are broad in nature and may encompass multiple phases of a product’s lifecycle to include pursuit, development, production or post-delivery support. While possessing technical expertise and experience, the individual will coordinate and lead the engineering product development activities.

The PE plans, schedules and directs the engineering support of the assigned projects, and keeps the team on plan through proactive engagement, constant and robust communication/collaboration and focused risk management. They are responsible for, and have authority over, all engineering resources associated with or in support of the project and must continually engage and collaborate with engineering functional leadership to ensure the necessary resources and support are available.

• Experience engaging other cross-functional leaders to advocate for the program’s needs and priorities while working with leadership to understand and accommodate the demands of competing programs.
• Experience interfacing and working closely with customers on technical and contractual requirements.
• Experience working in conjunction with PM and proposal lead to decompose business case and customer contract requirements into Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) elements, support creation of the detailed Basis of Estimates (BOEs), construct viable Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), determine technical deliverables and associated program risks and opportunities.
• Familiar with requirements definition, verification and distribution, technical baseline development, resource identification and allocation, design trade studies, preliminary design, detailed design, system testing, qualification testing, supporting the handoff to production (production configuration) and ensuring the technical deliverables to support a successful Entry-Into-Service.
• Experience as focal point for engineering development, product definition, resource allocation, task assignment and completion, problem solving and decision making necessary to accomplish project charter.
• Working knowledge of resource loaded scheduling and proficient with the use of Microsoft Project 2016.
• Experience with DO-254.
• Experience with DO-160.
• Experience with ARP-4754.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Accountable and takes ownership of assigned tasks.
• Self-motivated and takes initiative to get things done.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience in customer-facing roles.

Real Time Consulting (RTC) exists to partner outstanding engineering talent to support our clients’ success. Unsurpassed service is delivered to our clients by upholding responsibility, teamwork and quality. Our primary commitment is to help our clients. Since 1997, RTC has been protecting and enhancing lives with safe, reliable, innovative solutions, providing full life-cycle design, development and testing of EMBEDDED ENGINEERING SYSTEMS and SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS with Program Management and Consulting Services.

Our employees average 20+ years of versatile and accomplished expertise to our clients, driving continuous innovation forward. Employee’s innovative and analytical ideas are cultivated while maintaining the big picture vision in a fast-paced, changing environment. Our corporate values are to Uphold Responsibility, Support People, Promote Teamwork and Deliver Quality!

This position may require exposure to software, source code or technology that is subject to US export control laws and regulations (i.e., International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations). To comply with these requirements, you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Departments…