Project Engineer

Provides advanced technical leadership, oversight, and mentorship to engineering teams while serving as a key interface with internal and external customers. Operates in a fast-paced commercial product development environment supporting a defense-focused customer base. Works within matrixed Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and functionally aligned organizations. This position operates with minimal supervision, exercising significant independent judgment and decision-making authority related to technical scope, risk management, and engineering execution.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the maintenance and sustainment of existing products, driving upgrades and enhancements through established engineering development processes.

• Own and oversee the development and management of project schedules in Agile environments while ensuring alignment with traditional waterfall milestones.

• Partner with Product Managers to proactively resolve complex technical issues and inform product direction.

• Drive and facilitate the identification, definition, and documentation of technical issues, risks, and dependencies across the project team.

• Ensure delivery ownership of engineering solutions that meet committed scope, schedule, and performance objectives.

• Serve as a primary technical interface with customers (internal and external) on requirements, issue resolution, planning, and status updates.

• Lead and promote cross-team collaboration using tools such as Microsoft Teams to ensure alignment and transparency.

• Oversee and monitor product development activities and progress using tools such as Jira, ensuring accurate tracking and reporting.

• Coordinate and lead collaboration efforts with internal departments, customer representatives, and third-party suppliers to drive timely issue resolution.

• Collaborate strategically with functional engineering managers to forecast, secure, and optimize resources in support of customer needs.

• Lead troubleshooting efforts with customers and engineering teams to isolate root causes and deliver timely solutions or effective workarounds.

• Ensure comprehensive documentation of all technical issues from initial identification through troubleshooting, escalation, and resolution.

• Conduct advanced analysis and resolution of complex customer issues, driving escalation paths with Product Management and Engineering as needed.

• Provide timely, professional, and technically sound communication to customers, delivering both immediate workarounds and long-term solutions to complex problems.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Four-year college degree in engineering or related technical discipline plus2 years of related experience.
• Experience in creating, analyzing, documenting and tracking engineering development efforts.
• Project management experience required.
• Must be able to work under project deadlines and be able to support Product Team in the establishment and maintenance of engineering project schedules and cost budgets.
• Must have strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Must communicate effectively, both verbally and in written form.
• Must have some leadership experience working with and building teams.
• Requires experience with Jira and Project Management tools (MS Project, Primavera, Smartsheet, or similar application), SAP exposure, and Confluence.