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Project Engineer

CAES Systems LLC
$81,764.00 - $155,443.00 / yr
paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401(k)
United States, California, San Diego
9404 Chesapeake Drive (Show on map)
Mar 05, 2025


Delivering mission-critical, electronic solutions that protect lives. Use your creativity and critical thinking to take our products from concept to customer.

At CAES by Honeywell, we engineer solutions for the world's most critical missions. We serve customers in the defense and aerospace markets.

Seeking a career that offers challenging, diverse projects and opportunities? Looking for a position with a company that offers long-term professional advancement? Searching for a place that values a diverse, team-based environment? One that values YOU. Consider CAES by Honeywell.

The most important thing we build is TRUST


Overview

CAES by Honeywell is seeking a Project Engineer to join the San Diego team

The Project Engineer II/III would be main engineering point of contact for their assigned projects, coordinating between functional disciplines within Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Planning, and Quality to ensure smooth operations and resolve technical issues. This customer-facing role is an exciting, dynamic, and fast-paced matrix position. This role prepares engineering proposal, defines, generates and reviews project requirements documentation, monitors project to ensure work scope, schedule and budget are well defined and maintained, and provides coordination between resource managers/supervisors to ensure required program support and reviews/approvals are completed in a timely manner. This role is also responsible for conducting project reviews during life cycle of development through production transfer. Performs technical studies to analyze and refine project requirements.


Responsibilities

Major Duties & Responsibilities

    • Participate in projects including Research & Development, new product development, redesign, and sustained production programs.
    • Manage an RF subsystem development effort with responsibility for all relevant technical disciplines including RF design, mechanical design, manufacturing, integration and test, and subsystem engineering.
    • Is proactive in seeking out and resolving integration issues among different engineering disciplines during the development process
    • Develop, build and manage the integrated multi-function program team and represent both the interests of the customer and the business from a technical standpoint.
    • Act as the primary technical interface with the customer and other CAES departments
    • Work with program and engineering management teams to identify and mitigate risk during design process
    • Interface with Executive Staff and Program Management leadership on all aspects of design execution
    • Aid in development of project planning documents, including Integrated Master Schedules, Integration and Test Plans, Resource Plans, Capital Equipment Plans, and other documents.
    • Work closely with program management to adhere to schedule and budget and is accountable for the Profit and Loss.
    • Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints
    • Provide consistent and regular metrics to support Customer SDRLs and internal leadership
    • Maintain project schedule, provide inputs to project Estimation at Complete (EAC), report adherence to cost and schedule baselines for project. Provide input for the preparation of baseline change requests, variance reports, and manage resource requests.
    • Provide technical direction for team, lead trade studies, lead development of design reviews, and anomaly resolution teams. Work with program management and other Project Engineers to meet all project deliveries and to ensure delivered systems meet all customer requirements.
    • Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications

Qualifications

Minimum:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
  • 2 years of previous Project Engineering experience
  • 2 years of engineering or related experience in design and development.
  • Technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques to solve complex professional tasks.
  • Negotiating skills, commercial proficiency and conflict resolution.

Preferred:

  • 5 years of previous Project Engineering experience
  • 5 years engineering or related experience in design and development
  • Active DoD Security Clearance
  • Expertise RF/Microwave subsystem design and a working knowledge of related simulation/modeling and verification techniques.
  • Knowledge and experience in design, materials, analysis, and qualification of space-flight systems.
  • Experience with Hi-Rel or space development programs and space standards.

Salary Range: $81,764 - $155,443 annually (San Diego, CA).

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base bay. Applicable pay within the posted range may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographical location, job function of the position, education, and experience of the successful candidate. CAES provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, 401K, paid holidays and vacation.

EMPLOYMENT TRANSPARENCY

BENEFITS

We take care of our people and provide competitive health, wealth and wellbeing benefits - from day one. You'll also discover learning and development opportunities so you can take your career to the next level - and beyond.

Other benefits include:

  • Comprehensive PTO, Paid Holiday and Paid Family Leave Programs.
  • Student Loan Repayment Program & Tuition Reimbursement
  • 9/80 Alternate Work Week Schedule
  • Tailored Management/Leadership Training
  • Innovative Medical Programs, Including Family Forming

ABOUT CAES

CAES is the largest provider of analog and radiation hardened technology for the United States aerospace and defense industry. From human spaceflight and space exploration, to missile defense and electronic warfare, to healthcare solutions addressing COVID-19, our talented team develop high performing electronic solutions that work the first time, every time.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

At CAES we welcome differences and celebrate new ideas. We believe the diversity of our people inspires our creativity and drives our innovation. Everyone is welcome here, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please email CAEScareers@caes.com.

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