Project Engineer

Position: Mid-Level Project Engineer

Location: Springfield, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI

Position Description:  Seeking a motivated Project engineer to support planning, scheduling, and documentation tasks for a large organization. Join a skilled, highly respected and long standing team supporting product quality and functional testing mission. This is a unique opportunity to enhance your career by working with the community subject matter experts, directly with the customer, and with an experience testing team. The successful candidate will be responsible for technical and operational leadership of testing projects within the guidelines set by the program manager and customers. The candidate will define, generate, and review project requirements documentation. The candidate will build testing schedules for the organization based on inputs from program schedules, requests for change (RFCs), and other system level data to allow the organization to develop their staffing, software, and support needs. Monitor project to ensure work scope, schedule, and budget are well defined and maintained. Create products to track schedules, project actions, meeting agendas, and other documentation to support government working groups.

Based on the priorities of the office and the active projects, the candidate will be tasked to:

-        Support working group to manage project elements. Develop agenda, charts, action items, and status in coordination with government leads.

-        Design and maintain an integrated master schedule of test events, dependencies, capabilities and effectivities to meet evolving customer needs. 

-        Evaluate impacts on segment, project and enterprise schedule related to changes in customer and program requirements or schedule performance.  Update schedules with new or modified request for service (RFS) and staffing resource allocation data.

-        Develop a resource loaded schedule to support office planning, staffing of skill sets, and software tool development needs to support future activities.

-        Provide status to include analysis and reports to management consistent with program and customer requirements.

-        Support and improve business processes. Identify areas for efficiencies and provide process improvements.

-        Develop and support creation of technical documentation. Support configuration management tasks within the team.

-        Track project execution, identify, and mitigate project risk.

-        Work independently and within teams where appropriate.

-        Provide briefings to internal team and assist with briefings to senior government customers.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in project management, scheduling, or business processes.
• Experience with Project planning, schedule development, and resource allocation
• Experience with schedule planning and visualization tools, ex. JIRA/Confluence, Microsoft Project
• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Knowledge/experience working in the Intelligence Community.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to develop and formulate solutions for problems/issues.
• Strong interpersonal, customer interaction, written, and verbal and briefing skills with ability to work in a fast paced multi-tasking environment.

Desired Skills:

•  System Engineering and project planning experience, working medium to large projects.

• Experience working Test Management programs, specifically ALM Octane

• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and integrated scheduling programs

• Technical writing expertise

• Experience with the concepts and practice of Digital Engineering Environment, Authoritative Sources of Truth (ASoT)