Senior Project Engineer
AeroVironment
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Oregon • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $124,370 - $176,400 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- The Sr. Project Engineer is responsible for the success of project technical deliverables in collaboration with chief engineers, subsystem technical leads, engineering functional managers, and project managers.
- Lead engineering teams through design, analysis, prototype, integration, troubleshooting and verification and assist in new product launch to production.
- Improve product development processes by employing lessons learned and best practices such as modeling and simulation, design reviews, DFMEA, Six Sigma/lean product development, DFX, and customer feedbacks.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams through meetings and progress measurement activity which bring distinct, specific projects to completion both on time and within budget.
- Drive development of subsystem specifications, characterization & performance evaluations in support of system requirements.
- Manage Prototype builds, key suppliers, contractors and 3rd party design service providers/consultants.
- Develop and/or improve tools and processes to efficiently generate and communicate engineering schedule and resource estimates as well as project technical status, risk & metrics.
- Manage day-to-day technical aspects for the project, including facilitating cross-discipline decision making, design reviews, defect tracking, engineering tasks/schedule/status management, issue resolution and risk management activities.
- Introduce methodologies and tools to improve project engineering excellence.
- Use professional concepts & company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative & effective ways.
- Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
- Determine methods & procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel (Team Lead).
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in related Engineering field is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Minimum of 8 - 12 years of related technical experience in product development including at least 5 years of technical or program leadership
- Proven and demonstrated experience with full product development life cycle from concept to production with proven track-record of launching new products to production
- Proven and demonstrated execution of product development methods and best practices
- Experienced leading integrated product teams
- Strong technical knowledge and experience in order to understand and evaluate design and development activity across the engineering disciplines
- Ability to analyze the assigned project, break down work into functional disciplines and/or subsystems and create design/develop plans
- Strong organization, facilitation and negotiation skills.
Benefits
- AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown.