Project Engineer, Defense Engineering
Posted on: 6 Feb 2021
Wichita, KS
Job Description
JOB SUMMARY:
Project Engineer in Defense will be responsible for defining and executing development and customer funded programs for Defense and Special Missions related Textron Aviation products. This role may interface with all levels of management and with customers internally and externally.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Primary point of contact and responsible for building relationships with the customer, vetting solutions for their needs, capturing the opportunity, managing the project, and ensuring the product can be delivered on time and on budget.
2. Manage the full life cycle of the program from contract, through development, certification, and delivery.
3. Responsible to obtain requirements from customers, Program Management and Sales team.
4. Responsible for the interface with all Engineering functions to define specific requirements for internal and external programs
5. Responsible for successful execution of approved programs
6. Plan and coordinate with participating departments the schedule and resources required to execute the program
7. Ability to work in a cross-functional environment
8. Ability to effectively communicate internally and externally
Textron Inc.
Providence, RI
Textron Inc. operates in the aircraft, defense, industrial, and finance businesses worldwide. The company’s Textron Aviation segment manufactures and sells business jets, turboprop and piston engine aircraft, and military trainer and defense aircraft; and commercial parts, as well as provides maintenance, inspection, and repair services. Its Bell segment provides military and commercial helicopters, tiltrotor aircraft, and related spare parts and services. The company’s Textron Systems segment offers unmanned, marine, and land systems; simulation, training, and other defense and aviation mission support products and systems; airborne and ground-based sensors and surveillance systems, and protection systems; precision guided weapons systems; armored vehicles, turrets, and related subsystems, as well as marine craft; test equipment and electronic warfare test, and training solutions; piston aircraft engines; and intelligence software solutions.
This segment also designs, develops, manufactures, installs, and maintains full flight simulators; and offers logistics support services. Its Industrial segment offers blow-molded plastic fuel systems and fuel systems, including pressurized fuel tanks for hybrid applications, clear-vision systems, catalytic reduction systems, cast iron engine components, and other fuel system components primarily to automobile OEMs, as well as plastic bottles and containers for various uses; golf cars, off-road utility vehicles, recreational side-by-side and all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, light transportation vehicles, aviation ground support equipment, professional turf-maintenance equipment, and turf-care vehicles that are marketed to golf courses and resorts, government agencies and municipalities, consumers, and commercial and industrial users.
The company’s Finance segment provides financing to purchase new and pre-owned aircraft and helicopters. Textron Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island.
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IndustryAviation
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No. of Employees35, 000
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