Project Engineer

Job Description

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For over 60 years, the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) team has supported the Navy’s 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 Junior Project 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 ad hoc tasking by program management leaders.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.
• US Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.

Desired Skills

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
• Familiarity with Earned Value Management (EVM) principles.
• Familiarity with engineering lifecycle (system definition, design, build, test and operational deployment).
• Systems thinking, technical management, or technical integration experience.
• Experience with Risk and Opportunity Management.
• IMS (Integrated Master Schedule) development or management of.
• Prior CAM (control account management) experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• 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 U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) Customer.
• Knowledge of project management principles - how to integrate cost, schedule, and technical elements to drive execution.
• Demonstrated ability to work with project team members to manage cost, schedule, and technical scope.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance.

Other Important Information

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Ability to work remotely

Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.

Key skills/competency

• Project Management
• Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Risk Management
• Schedule Management
• Technical Integration
• Cross-functional Team Leadership
• Strategic Systems Programs (SSP)
• Engineering Lifecycle
• DoD Security Clearance
• Communication Skills