Lead Project Engineer

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L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title - Lead Project Engineer

Job Location - Bristol, UK

Job ID - 23998

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 11 UK sites, our team of nearly 1,000 people delivers unique capabilities across space, air, land, sea and cyber for military, security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.

L3Harris in Bristol/Burgess Hill/Barrow provides warship automation systems through control and simulation solutions that are in service on Albion Class Landing Platform Docks and Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers. More systems are being developed and delivered for Type 26 and Type 31 Frigates.

The Project Engineer is a member of the Project Leadership Team, complementing the Project Manager and Technical Manager.This role is internally focussed, combining engineering judgement and leadership with the ability to co-ordinate, plan, control and deliver a project.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Hybrid working where possible - please note, the business expectation is to be onsite 60% over a one-month period.
• Half day finish on a Friday
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Daily tasking and co-ordination of the engineering team, ensuring the team is progressing as required against the plan and issues are identified and if required resolved through collaboration with the project leadership team (including the Project Manager and Technical Manager).
• Engineering Management and problem solving - ensuring that the team is following the agreed project delivery lifecycle and any problems are identified, understood and resolved.
• Primarily responsible for developing an achievable schedule which is agreed with all parties and approved for the team to work against. The schedule should include timescales (tasks with completion dates) and costs (labour and materials) whilst considering scope (all deliverables) constraints, negotiating if these do not align.
• Establish and maintain the overall project plan/schedule (Gantt) using MS Project and project deliverables list (In co-ordination with Project Planner if available) using MS Excel, Sharepoint or other appropriate tools
• Ensuring Time recording is accurate against activities on the project
• Provides reporting to the Leadership Team (including ETC, EAC and forecast completion/delivery dates)
• Extracts resource requirements from the plan and provides demand through the project managers to facilitate resourcing allocation meetings
• Documents and controls the baseline for the project
• Controls Risk associated with the project through: Identification; Documentation; Impact Analysis; Planning and Execution of Mitigations
• Facilitates change through providing estimated effort and schedule impact incorporating approved change into project schedule and technical baseline co-ordinating the change process
• Conducting Lessons Learned evaluations to continually improve approaches and seek efficiencies

What you'll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Project Management, Technical Management or System Engineering Background
• Experiences with delivering Defence Contracts
• Understanding and experience of Engineering lifecycles, specifically V-Model Lifecycle
• Experience and knowledge of Systems Engineering disciplines such as Verification and Validation methods, the importance of contractual compliance and system or systems integration.
• Proven Leadership Skills
• People co-ordination, excellent communication skills, motivation and tasking
• Technical understanding of the product under development
• Proficient with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Applications and Microsoft Sharepoint

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and offers equal opportunities for all. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.