Project Engineer - Binghamton - CAE

Description

About This Role

To learn more about CAE Binghamton, our open positions and the Binghamton community, please visit our website at CAE Binghamton .

Put your passion to work and propel yourself towards success.

Welcome to CAE We are excited to become a part of your professional journey and to help you discover a career that aligns with your values, experience, expertise , and aspirations As a leader in the defense and security industry, CAE's team is passionate about simulation and training and developing the most sophisticated solutions to help our defense and security customers prepare for mission success With our people at the very heart of our organization, driving innovation and new technologies we are committed to providing a work environment for employees in which they can thrive and one that values professional growth, teamwork, and engagement.

Who We Are:

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers' training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.

What We Have to Offer:

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun

This position is open to a possible DOD Skillbridge internship .

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Are you ready for a rewarding opportunity ? We are seeking an ambitious engineering professional to join our team The successful candidate will be an e nthusiastic and gregarious professional with a passion for helping others and building positive relationships This role is for a candidate who is self-motivated, exhibits a positive approach, has a strong work ethic and demonstrates strategic big picture thinking Th is position will work closely with senior level program engineering management.

Technical responsibilities include:

• The PE performs as the technical lead over the assigned engineering team on a program to include leading/ participating in program peer, gate, and design reviews, supporting program management reviews (PMRs), and coordinating technical activity amongst the program IPTs.

• The PE performs weekly/monthly Cost Account Management (CAM) reviews with IPTs and is responsible for technical, cost, and schedule performance for the engineering content on a program.

• Communicates within and outside of the organization to influence leadership to accept new practices, approaches, and concepts.

• The PE receives engineering direction from and is accountable to a Program Engineering Manager (PEM), who has overall Program Engineering responsibility for successfully proposing, developing and delivering Product Line solutions.

• Responsible for improving upon existing processes or establishing new systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation, including championing new concepts or technologies

• Recommends tactics and strategies that will directly impact the achievement of overall business or functional results.

• Demonstrated ability as an independent , proactive leader who works well within a team.

• Ability to build relationships, handle interpersonal interactions a nd cope with difficulties, both internally and externally

• Excellent oral and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to interface with senior civilian government, DoD and industry leaders.

• Strong analytical skills and demonstrate ability to formulate analysis from multiple resources, ask critical questions with customer and stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to systematically measur e performance using a risk management approach; identifying and weighing technical, schedule and cost risks associated with maintaining and upgrading the Training System.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• BS degree in Engineering or equivalent experience required

• Minimum nine years plus of prior technical, project experience with both Traditional and Agile Program Execution methods working as a leader, developer, or technologist.

• Military or Defense industry e xperience

• Proven success in a fast-paced development environment and possess a willingness to take ownership, accept accountability, and thrive under pressure

• Ability to provide and receive constructive criticism

• Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues and predict potential programmatic and technical risks.

• E xperience with Clearcase , Clearquest , DOORs, and Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar

• Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance that has been granted or renewed in the last 5 years.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain Special Program Access prior to the start of employment.

• Flexibility to support occasional overtime, weekend work, shift work and site travel (CONUS)

• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with in Model ing and Simulation industry .

• E xperience performing as primary technical interface with DOD customers.

• E xperience working with Business Development to cultivate follow-on work and new program opportunities.

• E xperience with DevSecOps practices and popular tool sets for management, automation, and deployment (Atlassian, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, or others)

• Experience in Open Mission Systems/Universal Command and Control Interface (OMS/UC C I) .

• Scaled Agile Framework ( SAFe ) knowledge and experience .

• Experience using modeling resources

• Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.)

• Experience using earned value management systems to manage a team's cost and schedule performance.

• Experience with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, GitHub, GitLab, AND/OR Jenkins.

• Demonstrated mentoring and coaching skills, and excellent 2-way communication skills (upward and downward).

• Time management and organizational skills to prioritize across concurrent program and functional responsibilities.

• Current Special Access Program (SAP) access.

Security Responsibilities

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

CAE USA Inc. is an EOE/AA employer and gives consideration for employment to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal .

PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

Position Type Regular CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted. Equal Opportunity Employer CAE is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As One CAE we take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, Veteran status, age, or other legally protected characteristics. If you don't see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed in the job posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. At CAE everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please get in touch with us at rh-hr@cae.com .