Lead, Quality Project Engineer

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Job Title: Lead, Quality Project Engineer

Job Code: 33138

Job Location: Huntsville, AL, Orange, VA -OR- Camden, AR

Job Schedule: Huntsville & Orange - 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off, Camden - 4/10: Employees work 10 hour shifts - 4 days a week

Job Description:

The Missile Solutions Segment of L3Harris is seeking a Lead, Project Quality Engineer to support Quality & Mission Assurance (Q&MA) execution across a regional manufacturing footprint. This role is one of three complementary positions that together form an integrated Q&MA execution team, enabling consistent delivery of quality, schedule, and risk mitigation outcomes across programs and sites.  This role can work out of our offices in Huntsville, Alabama, Orange, Virginia or Camden, Arkansas.  This role provides project management structure, execution discipline, and facilitation that allows manufacturing-focused quality and continuous improvement leaders to operate effectively. The position does not operate independently; success is defined by how well the team executes together.

Essential Functions:

• Provide project management, scheduling, and coordination for Q&MA initiatives executed by the team.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning, execution, and review sessions.
• Maintain integrated schedules, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
• Support execution of APQP, manufacturing risk mitigation, and improvement plans.
• Enable data-driven execution through metrics, dashboards, and status reporting.
• Align stakeholders and remove execution barriers.
• Partner closely with manufacturing quality and continuous improvement teammates to enable disciplined execution.
• Coach teams on project rigor, accountability, and follow-through.
• Up to 30% business travel to L3Harris manufacturing sites.
• Ability to obtain US Security Clearance.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 9 years of prior quality engineering experience; Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior quality engineering experience; In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of prior quality engineering experience.
• 4 years project management experience in manufacturing or quality environment.
• 4 years facilitation, organization, and communication skills in a professional work environment.
• 4 years of working knowledge of manufacturing operations and quality systems.

Preferred Additional Skills: 

• Experience in manufacturing and quality, preferably defense, aerospace, automotive, or similar industries.
• PMP certification or equivalent.
• Familiarity with APQP and manufacturing risk management.
• Prior leadership experience with direct reports or cross-functional teams.
• Ability to teach, coach, and influence without formal authority.
• Experience collaborating within a Microsoft 365 environment, with proficiency in the included applications (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
• Regulatory & Auditing (AS9100) in the Aerospace and Defense Industry.

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