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Are you searching for a career with a company that offers challenging, diverse projects and opportunities?  Are you looking for a position with a company that is growing and able to offer long-term professional advancement?   Searching for a company that values a friendly work environment and that values YOU? Then look no further!!  Consider Cobham.  #peoplefocusedmissiondriven #everymissionmatters

We are Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES), a technologically advanced electronics company employing more than 3,600 talented makers, thinkers, innovators, and doers nationwide. We build things that solve challenging problems from deep space to the depths of the ocean. We serve customers in spanning defense, aerospace, security, medical, and industrial markets.

Cobham’s EW and Integrated Solutions (EIS) is a leading supplier of integrated RF solutions and high power, solid state broadband transmitters for EW and Radar applications and antennas and precision positioners both for standalone aperture and positioner requirements as well as integrated sensor systems across many high performance applications.  The EIS business is experiencing exciting growth and is recruiting an Engineering Project Coordinator to join our team in our Lansdale, PA facility. The Engineering Project Coordinator will perform project scheduling, resource planning and analysis to support program forecasting and execution across all engineering functions through the entire product lifecycle. The engineering team is very strong, encompassing over 100 engineering professionals including systems, software, RF, power amplifier, antenna, mechanical, reliability, test and other engineering specialties, located in Lansdale as well as across several other sites.
 
This role reports to the EIS Director of Engineering.  The candidate must possess a strong programmatic background, analytic skills and be fluent in MS Project, MS Excel with a knowledge of engineering development projects. The ideal candidate will have experience establishing and maintaining projects schedules and resource plans covering multiple projects through all product phases. Previous employment in a company providing military and defense electronic solutions is preferred. This person must have excellent communication skills and be able to work well within a matrix organization to drive operational excellence and improvement in business performance. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain schedules for multiple projects in MS Project for the engineering organization. The resources to be coordinated in these schedules will include personnel, engineering tools, key capital equipment and any special facility needs.
• Generate and maintain resource-loaded schedules with rollups for resource forecasting, program execution, and production support that align with business performance objectives, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Perform data collection and reporting for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to schedule performance, resource utilization and execution.
• Participate in business performance improvement efforts related to engineering program estimating and execution from concept, business capture, development, low-rate introductory production (LRIP), production readiness, and production support.

Core Competencies:

• Fluent in MS Project with experience in managing dependencies of multiple product development projects executing at various lifecycle stages simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to generate and present schedule forecasts and resource plans utilizing data from multiple sources to multi-disciplined.
• Ability to effectively work with teams to generate and maintain detailed, dynamic product development schedules and resource plans with summarized roll-ups.
• Proficient in MS Excel with demonstrated ability to programmatically and efficiently collect, filter process complex data from multiple sources and presenting concise summaries.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, employing diplomacy, confidence and tact; assertive without antagonism or alienation; objectively presenting data and recommendations for improvement. 
• Good work practice/ethic, self-motivated, and reliable.  Demonstrated ability to deliver on-time and work well with team members.
• Ability to work in line with Cobham’s SPIRIT values, exhibiting exemplary behavior and emotional intelligence

Key Measures / Milestones:

• Attaining engineering business performance excellence goals
• Engineering resource utilization, scheduling, forecasting, data collection, analysis and reporting

Minimum Qualifications:

• Three (3) years of experience working within an engineering organization developing, maintaining and presenting multiple engineering project schedules simultaneously.
• Three (3) years of experience working in a high-mix environment (multiple product lines).
• Three (3) years minimum experience working with MS Project managing multiple projects.
• Three (3) years Excel expertise.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a SECRET security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as Project Manager
• Experience with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming with Excel.
• Experience presenting and preparing PowerPoint presentations.
• Experience managing a common shared resource pool in MS Project supporting multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience with data mining, reporting and maintenance of engineering KPI’s.
• Proven track record with continuous improvement achievements in engineering organizations.
• Working knowledge of LCM, Stage-Gate methodology and Lean practices
• Certification in Lean 6-sigma methods
• Experience working in and driving results in a matrix organization
• Active SECRET security clearance

About Us:
Founded in 1934 by aviation innovator Sir Alan Cobham, our values of Trust, Talent and Technology have driven us to become a global leader in state-of-the-art aerospace and defense systems. It's the insights of our innovators today that will secure our collective future. Innovators like you!

If you are authorized to work in the United States, then we encourage you to apply.  We are unable to sponsor work visas.  U.S. Citizenship required for positions requiring a Security Clearance.

Cobham is one of the world's leading companies engaged in the development, delivery and support of leading-edge aerospace and defense systems in the air, on land and at sea. Our clients and partners trust Cobham to deliver the mission-critical technology they need, and we trust our employees to draw on their ingenuity and passion to deliver those solutions. This leads to an empowering culture for our people. Our Leadership team is open, sharing plans for the next five years, driving retention by offering demanding, exciting work, and providing full guidance and mentoring.

Employment Transparency:
Cobham is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Cobham to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Cobham will refrain from discharging, or otherwise discriminating against, employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants.

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Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to CAEScareers@cobham.com