IT Project Engineer jobs in Connecticut

Senior Project Engineer (Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead)     

East Hartford, Connecticut

Fulltime

Primary Responsibilities

•            Own the schedule, cost, performance, and process for driving success on cross-functional aerospace engineering projects.

•            Manage the design and integration of complex assemblies

•            Host and coordinate integrated product team meetings with key stakeholders

•            Develop and participate in product design reviews

•            Act as the customer representative and main point of contact to their external customers

•            Maintain an ongoing action item tracker and hold stakeholders accountable to drive on-time action item closure

•            Generate status reports and present project status to external and internal stakeholders on a regular basis

•            Proactively identify project scope, budget, and schedule risks and implement strategies to minimize risk and overcome project success barriers.

•            Follow defined processes to update and maintain customer systems and databases (including PLM software) with the latest project status

•            Participate in ad-hoc project engineering initiatives, such as failure investigations (RRCAs), engineering changes (configuration management), earned value management systems (EVMS)

•            Leverage your engineering knowledge to have informed, technical discussions across engineering groups to have a thorough understanding of technical project performance

•            Visit customers in-person as needed to drive project progress

•            Escalate project barriers and risks as needed

•            Own and maintain all project documentation

•            Coordinate with suppliers as needed

•            Follow all required standard work, and adhere to all compliance and regulation requirements

Qualifications

•            Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering or related field

•            5 year(s) of relevant experience

•            Direct experience acting as a senior project engineer or IPT Lead

•            Experience working with Teamcenter or other PLM software

•            Ability to proactively take action to drive on-time results

•            Outstanding communication and technical writing skills

•            Excellent customer service skills

•            Must be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Qualifications

•            PMP Certification preferred

•            Experience managing projects through the engineering design process

•            An understanding of engineering outsourcing business practices

•            Knowledge of inspections procedures, such as FPI, MPI, X-Ray, etc.

•            Knowledge of common metal hardware repair types, such as blend repairs, coating repairs, welding repairs, etc.

•            Exposure to project or program management

•            Experience writing or creating standard work, establishing processes, and documenting lessons learned

•            Experience with Adobe Framemaker

•            An alignment with LTTS company values, including: Being Purposeful, Ethics & Integrity, Caring, A Culture of Learning, and Results with Accountability.