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Principal Project Engineer – Embedded Communications
| Company | RTX |
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| Location | Cedar Rapids, IA, USA |
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| Salary | $101000 – $203000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience
- Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret Security Clearance is required prior to start date
- Experience with the systems development process, including requirements capture, design, decomposition, integration, and verification/validation, and transition to production.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and maintain project plans, budgets, and staffing requirements to ensure that all action item lists are completed, and project quality expectations are met
- Estimate costs, resources, and time required to complete projects to ensure business targets are met
- Maintain and provide analysis of trends, performance, resource cost and forecasting reports
- Gather and analyze data to monitor projects’ progress in terms of cost, schedule, and technical specifications to facilitate operations and ensure that established objectives and budgets are achieved
- Meet with the project team weekly to manage project performance, status, open issues, and tasks
- Conduct critical path analysis and works closely with the IPT to manage tasks and workflow
- Monitor and assess project issues, escalates when necessary, and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives
- Oversee and coordinate the administrative and operational aspects of ongoing projects within program guidelines
- Ensure compliance with company guidelines and internal processes and recommend changes to improve the efficiency of scheduling, monitoring, and reporting of projects
- Effectively communicate and present to engineering, management and the customer
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with the Scaled Agile framework
- Exceptionally strong communication skills, experience presenting technical data to program management and executive leadership
- Experience managing programs using Earned Value
- Experience with C++ Development
