PROJECT ENGINEER

About LSI

LSI is an employee-owned company that employs dynamic teams of professionals – people with the finest technical expertise, a level of passionate creativity, and a truly visionary outlook who deliver innovative training solutions that exceed our customers’ expectations. Everyone at LSI has a personal stake in our success. LSI has over 300 training support experts, engineers, and craftsmen on staff who develop state-of-the-art high-fidelity training devices, complex computer-based, highly interactive distributed learning products, and comprehensive, dynamic technical publications. LSI employee-owners collaborate to deliver training products and services for a myriad of programs and customers, using leading-edge technology and proven processes.

Mission
Our mission is to prepare our military and allies to be battle-ready through cutting-edge training products and services.

Vision
Our vision is to be the premier provider of military training solutions, renowned for our innovation and excellence. Through employee-ownership and teamwork, we will shape a future where every military service member is equipped to succeed in their mission.

Guiding Principles

ESOP Sustainability: We do everything within our control to meet project budgets and schedules, so our ESOP prospers.

Take Ownership: Each Employee-Owner takes ownership at the individual level for their words, actions, and results. Individual ownership breeds accountability. Accountability breeds trust.  When we hold ourselves accountable and trust our fellow employee-owners to do the same, we realize success.
 
Clear Communication: We project confidence in our communication using unambiguous language and providing clear purpose and direction.

Pursuit of Excellence: We aggressively pursue continuous improvement both as teams and individual employee-owners. We strive to get better every day. There is no room for mediocrity.

Pride in Our Work: We know the value of our work and are proud of what we produce.

Customer Focus: Customers are both internal and external and we strive to give both our best efforts.

Assume Positive Intent: Assume others are well-intentioned in their actions and seek additional information about the circumstances to help solve problems. Assuming positive intent in all interactions is the key to building strong teams and working together to solve problems.

One Voice: Every Employee-Owner is expected to speak up if they have an idea for improvement or if they disagree with a potential course of action. Once a decision is made, the entire team commits to it and moves forward with one voice.
 

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General Summary

The Project Engineer serves as the technical lead for assigned projects, responsible for translating approved system requirements and system architecture into executable engineering plans and delivering real-time software and hardware systems for training devices. The role provides project-level technical leadership, coordinates engineering disciplines, supports testing and customer delivery, develops technical estimates and proposals, and manages project technical risk and schedule inputs.

The Project Engineer works closely with Systems Engineering, Program Management, and the engineering team to ensure project requirements, architecture, interfaces, test plans, and delivery milestones are met. Their primary responsibility is to execute, integrate, test, and deliver approved technical solutions within project scope, schedule, budget, and quality constraints.

Essential Job Functions

•    Develops project-level technical solutions that implement approved system requirements within project constraints.
•    Reviews approved system requirements and system architecture; develops project execution plans, implementation approaches, interface definitions, and test plans.
•    Analyzes, designs, implements, integrates, and troubleshoots real-time software and hardware systems for aviation aircrew and maintenance training devices.
•    Tasks and leads engineers assigned to their project. Conducts regular status meetings with engineering and production team members to ensure alignment with program management.
•    Identifies schedule conflicts, technical risks, and resource constraints; provide inputs to the Program Manager and recommends schedule or manpower changes.
•    Develops and maintains work packages, technical estimates, and execution plans based on a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) when required.
•    Attends Systems Engineering Technical Review (SETR) events and In-Progress Reviews (IPR) ensuring discrepancies are recorded as Action Items and tracked to closure.
•    Works constructively with the engineering team, management, and customers to meet budget, schedule, and scope requirements.
•    Performs or coordinates testing at customer sites and early pre-release testing, including integration and pre-delivery validation.
•    Develops technical proposals and supports responses to Sources Sought, Request for Proposal (RFP), and Request for Information (RFI) with the Business Development team, ensuring technical accuracy and professional presentation.
•    Develops training level of effort estimates for customers.
•    Must be capable of safely handling government-furnished equipment and materials.
•    Must be available to work a standard weekly schedule with overtime as required.
•    Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

•    May be tasked to mentor less experienced engineers.
 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

•    Must have a wide range of simulation knowledge in hardware and software in order to recommend solutions to best fit customer requirements.
•    Candidate must be self-motivated.
•    Excellent writing and presentation skills.
•    Ability to establish priorities to ensure tasks are accomplished on schedule.
•    Respond to tasks and mentorship from Engineering Manager.
•    Must be able to obtain a security clearance when required by the contract.

Education and Experience

•    Bachelor's degree in an engineering major and five (5) years of experience in engineering discipline; or
•    Bachelor’s degree in computer science and seven (7) years of experience in an engineering discipline; or
•    HS diploma or equivalent and nine (9) years of experience in engineering.
•    Advanced degree in engineering preferred.