Senior Manager, Project and Chief Engineering

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do. L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Senior Manager, Project and Chief Engineering Job Code: 45999 Job Location: Salt Lake City, UT Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off     Job Description:   L3Harris is seeking a Senior Manager of Project and Chief Engineering to lead a mission-critical communications portfolio. This role requires a seasoned leader with proven experience to integrate project execution, chief engineering direction, customer engagement, and proposal strategy across a highly complex operational environment. This role is 100% on-site in Salt Lake City.

Overview:   The Senior Manager serves as the senior Project and Chief engineer across a diverse portfolio of communications and networked mission systems. This leader is accountable for technical decisions that directly affect mission readiness, operational availability, customer confidence, and integrated execution across sustainment, expansion, modernization, and new development activities. The role operates with broad independent judgment across a portfolio supporting critical communications capabilities. The position aligns multiple engineering disciplines, maintains visibility into budget and schedule performance, and makes program-level tradeoffs across technical, cost, schedule, and mission risk while directly leading a team of Project and Chief Engineers.   Essential Functions:   Serve as the Senior Project and Chief engineering expert across a portfolio of critical communications and networked mission systems. Represent L3Harris to government customer stakeholders through recurring meetings, ad hoc technical engagements, and formal program reviews. Integrate systems engineering, software sustainment, test, logistics, configuration management, repairs, cybersecurity coordination, DMSMS and obsolescence planning, and modernization strategy into a unified execution approach. Provide integrated direction across sustainment, expansion, modernization, and new development activities supporting multiple critical airborne and ground mission platforms. Coordinate concurrent technical activities associated with system deployments, modernization initiatives, and expansion efforts as a cohesive portfolio. Lead proposal strategy and technical solution development for future contract pursuits and adjacent growth opportunities while sustaining day-to-day execution of the operational network. Maintain visibility into budget and schedule performance and make program-level tradeoffs across technical, cost, schedule, and mission risk. Brief customers and internal executive leadership on status, risks, issues, recommendations, and recovery actions with credibility, clarity, and authority. Hold teams accountable to a common technical baseline and present a unified engineering and program management posture to the customer. Experience leading complex multi-million-dollar programs, including direct responsibility for cost, schedule, and technical performance metrics. Experience with system integration, hardware and software integration, test execution, and troubleshooting. Demonstrated ability to lead project execution, chief engineering direction, and engineering