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CEF Industries, LLC

Job Description

Job Title: Chief Project Engineer

Department: Engineering

Position Purpose: The Chief Project Engineer is accountable for the technical, cost, and schedule performance of new product development programs. Other responsibilities include ensuring technical specifications are met, project scope is accurately defined and protected, department templates are updated, and skillsets are matched appropriately to programmatic tasks. This position will be largely internally-facing but will require occasional customer support.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Perform necessary tasks and coordinates all necessary activities inside or outside the engineering department; in order to meet cost, performance and schedule requirements for the assigned projects.

Accountable for development and successful qualification of new product introductions.

Leads cross-functional team members in establishing program plans with respect to specification compliance and performance requirements.

Identify, investigate, implement and train company employees on new technologies as needed to support new business proposals, development and productivity projects.

Identify new vendors for above and work with Operations/Purchasing to approve and transition them to production.

Be aware of industry standards for electromechanical actuation and participate in applicable governing board standards/specification technical committees such as SAE, ASME, AIAA, ASCE, NASC, etc when applicable and beneficial to the company.

Identifies and implements process improvements within the organization.

Employees primary duties require him/her to use discretion and independent judgment.

Directs support for design proposals with internal departments balancing manufacturing, cost, schedule, performance, and bandwidth implications.

Coordinate detail drawing modifications and the procurement of engineering hardware. Implements development and qualification test objectives, writes test procedures, and oversees the preparation of test units and the conduct of tests.

Coordinates testing activities, writes test reports and prepares recommendations related to the test objectives.

Supports Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) activities associated with development or qualification problems.

Accountable for accurate and timely reporting of technical challenges.

Understands and applies risk management practices to development and production/field support programs.

Effective written and verbal communication skills including presentations internally and to customers.

Ability to operate in a team environments and communicate effectively. Lead and direct work of technicians, support engineers and designers.

Understand quality system standards of CEF Industries, LLC.

Extensive familiarity and understanding of FEA tools, design validation and verifications tools and methodologies.

Extensive knowledge of engineering systems; configuration management, gate review process and engineering change order requirements.

Deep understanding of materials, heat treatments, finishes, and the cost/schedule implications of each.

Ensures customer-driven specifications are flown down across all programs.

Review and critique work performed by less senior members of the department.

Shares experience in the form of lessons learned presentations to the department.

Creates, updates, and ensures the use of all templates used by the department.

Identifies expertise lapses in the department; develops and executes training program.

Responsible for improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and organization of the department.

Identifies pot ntial opportunities to share hardware across multiple programs.

Determines appropriate design verification testing to be performed to mitigate compliance risks.

Ensures methods and tools used by the engineering department follow company and industry best practices.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability require