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Voyager Technologies is seeking a Systems Engineer – Project Engineer V to serve as a senior technical authority and strategic integrator for high-complexity defense and aerospace programs. This is an enterprise-level technical leadership role responsible for providing technical direction and programmatic oversight across engineering disciplines, ensuring alignment of design, performance, and risk with mission and contractual requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serve as chief project engineer or senior technical lead for large, multi-phase, multi-contract defense and aerospace programs
- Define and guide system architecture, integration, and verification strategies aligned with customer and mission objectives
- Oversee engineering execution across multiple Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and major subcontractors, ensuring technical, cost, and schedule compliance
- Lead technical baseline definition, configuration management, and system integration planning
- Chair or provide executive-level support for major design and integration reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR), ensuring readiness and compliance with technical performance metrics
- Serve as primary engineering interface to executive management and DoD customers, supporting technical interchange meetings and milestone reviews
- Manage and approve Statements of Work (SOWs), subcontractor technical deliverables, and major supplier design inputs
- Develop and implement advanced risk and opportunity management frameworks across enterprise-level programs
- Provide mentorship, coaching, and technical oversight to project engineers and functional leads
- Support proposal development, cost estimation, and new business capture activities
- Guide and enforce adherence to systems engineering standards, model-based engineering practices, and configuration control
- Drive organizational engineering process improvements, knowledge management, and best practices
This role represents engineering leadership at the enterprise level, contributing to organizational strategy, technology development initiatives, and complex mission-critical solutions in defense and space technology.
