Role: Project Engineer
Location: Rockford, Illinois

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Job Description & Skill Requirement
This position is for a Senior Project Engineer (Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead) role to join a growing aerospace team with L&T Technology Services (LTTS). As an important part of the Engineering team here at LTTS, you will actively be providing critical value to our customers by performing project engineering tasks to coordinate and drive results of critical aerospace projects.

This role will work with the LTTS team, as well as our major aerospace customer, following Engineering Standard Work to coordinate across corporate engineering disciplines to meet schedule, cost, and process compliance requirements. You will own the overall success and progress of the project.

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), Quality investigations, support testing activities and initiatives
Leverage your engineering knowledge to have informed, technical discussions across engineering groups to have a thorough understanding of technical project performance
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

Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
5+ year(s) of relevant experience
Direct experience acting as a 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
Have demonstrated mechanical aptitude
Excellent customer service skills
Must be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Qualifications
Experience managing projects through the engineering design process
An understanding of engineering outsourcing business practices
Experience with gearboxes, turbine starters, pumps and other turbine components
Experience writing or creating standard work, establishing processes, and documenting lessons learned
Experience with REACH requirements
An alignment with LTTS company values, including: Being Purposeful, Ethics & Integrity, Caring, A Culture of Learning, and Results with Accountability.

SKILL KEYWORD SEARCH
1. Project Engineering
2. Root Cause Analysis (RCCA)
3. REACH
4. Engineering Change management
5. Gearbox, Air Turbine Starters, Pumps