Project Chief Engineer

What You Will Do:

• Serve as the technical design authority for CCSS projects.
• Ensure that operational plans, budgets, and staffing requirements for CCSS projects are prepared, maintained, and executed.
• Lead project controls by monitoring progress against plan and ensuring technical deliverables meet program cost, schedule, quality, and safety objectives.
• Establish Design Concepts, criteria, and engineering direction for product research, development, integration, and test within project scope.
• Ensure that verification, validation, and certification/qualification activities are planned and executed to meet customer and regulatory requirements.
• Drive timely resolution of technical and execution issues to minimize delays.
• Primary Responsibilities:
• Serve as the primary technical interface for the Command and Control Switching Systems (CCSS) contract with General Management, Program Management, Customers, and suppliers, ensuring alignment between technical decisions, business objectives, and contractual obligations.
• Liaise between Senior Program Manager, Project Family Chief Engineer, project teams, and line management.
• Plan, oversee, and coordinate the administrative and operational aspects of ongoing projects within program guidelines.
• Monitor and assess project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Responsible for Engineering oversight and technical performance of program teams ranging from 5 – 10 FTE’s to larger programs consisting of 10 – 30 FTE’s.
• Apply RTX Lifecycle Program Management (RLPM) practices to plan, execute, and monitor program activities.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate integrated program plans that align with business objectives, support cross-functional collaboration, and ensure disciplined program performance across all lifecycle phases.
• Chair the Product Line Configuration Control Board (CCB) to manage, review, and approve configuration changes, ensuring consistent configuration control and alignment across all product line assets and requirements.
• Develop and deliver a comprehensive monthly Engineering Program Review that integrates status, progress, and key metrics within their area of responsibility.
• Develop and deliver engineering cost proposals that are accurate, defendable, and supported by historic program actuals, ensuring clear justification of cost elements and alignment with established estimating processes.
• Qualifications You Must Have:
• Previous experience as a Project Engineer, Technical Program Manager, or Integrated Product Team Lead.
• Working knowledge of multiple engineering disciplines with a strong focus on communications systems development.
• Ability to communicate and make presentations to senior level leadership
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 9 years of experience.
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued Top Secret security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Access (SCI) is required prior to start date.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Ability to travel up to 15% per year
• Qualifications We Prefer:
• Active DoD TOP SECRET Security Clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Access (SCI).
• Knowledge and/or experience with Secure Voice Networks, including DRSN, CDRSN, WHSVN, VoSIP, and ECVoIP.
• Knowledge and/or experience with Presidential National Voice Conferencing.
• Knowledge and/or experience with senior leader communications systems and NC3 mission requirements.
• Knowledge and/or experience with integrating disparate voice systems and technologies.
• Progressive leadership in the design, development, test, and integration of electromechanical assemblies with embedded software.
• Experience using Agile methodologies for hardware and software development.
• Prior Cost Account Manager experience.
• Experience navigating competing priorities, delivering the highest level of engagement and delivering successful outcomes in critical situations.
• Experience leading projects and teams within a highly matrixed organization.
• Understanding of the configuration management process.
• Strong Project management skills using MS Office/MS Project/EVMS.
• Identification of risks early on and ability to manage/mitigate by leveraging Sr. Leadership Support.
• What we offer:
• Some of our competitive benefits packages include:
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverage: you can purchase pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, Virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• And more!
• Learn More & Apply Now!
• Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.
• Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.
• Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.
• Employee Referral Eligible
• At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.
• Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining aerospace, every day
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• RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.
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