Description

The Maritime Systems Division (MSD) of Leidos develops, integrates, and deploys advanced technology solutions that address existing and emerging maritime missions for a range of customers across the Department of Defense (DoD). Our ability to compete in the global market requires extraordinary technology, talented employees, and a relentless pursuit of continuous improvement aimed at operational excellence. To support maintaining and building upon these standards we seek to engage an exceptional professional as a Project Engineering Planner at our Lynnwood, WA facility.

Primary Responsibilities

In the Project Engineering Planner role, you are responsible for planning, organizing, monitoring, and controlling a formal work order process for a team of engineering technologists assigned to a broad portfolio of programs. In addition, you are responsible for managing the hands-on plan of multiple projects that either directly or indirectly support those programs. You are a key member of a dynamic team reporting directly to the Maritime Systems Production Manager.

• Managing a visual Kanban system that defines, sizes, prioritizes, and authorizes project backlog incorporating agile principles to minimize work-in-progress and optimize productivity.
• Collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure work orders, manufacturing procedures, training documents, and safety plans are written and routed accurately.
• Using agile sizing techniques to measure and report planned velocity to actual velocity for both individual and the aggregate of work orders.
• Creating, organizing, and conducting an effective replenishment and grooming process for Kanban work orders, including conducting virtual and in-person standup meetings to monitor progress, identifying roadblocks, and supporting activity needed to eliminate them.
• Maintaining and reporting a Kanban work order dashboard, supported by detailed metrics for conducting Data Driven Decision Making (DDDM).
• Using DDDM to perform time phased short-term and long-term resource planning, including solicitating future demand for engineering technologists and facility resources from various stakeholders as part of sizing project backlogs.
• Assisting the Maritime Production Manager to support new staffing decisions based on DDDM and administration of the new hire process.
• Managing a retrospective process for continuous improvement over all utilized systems and flows.
• Reporting the Kanban work order process the Production Manager and resolving conflicting priorities through a collaborative process that may require escalation.

• Planning, organizing, managing and report progress of various capital expenditure projects.
• Defining, budgeting, controlling, maintaining, and monitoring the purchasing of tooling, assemblies, and test equipment.
• Directly coordinating with suppliers of tooling, assembly, and test equipment to ensure functional, regulatory, cost and schedule objectives are achieved.
• Ensuring total productive maintenance is performed on tooling, assemblies, and test equipment.
• Collaborate with Security and Office Management to set up access requests, escorts, conference rooms, and other administrative duties associated with visitors related to the work described above.
• Supporting program and facility requirements related to environmental, safety, and health as well as other regulatory compliance administration.
• Monitor and coordinate training requirements for engineering technologists and production technicians including items such as production screening chambers, crane safety, forklift safety, water tank safety, explosives, electrostatic discharge control, etc.
• In general, minimizing the administrative burden on the Maritime Systems Production Manager and local Shop Floor Manager to focus on a heavy workload associated with executing complex program demands.

• Work in collaboration with Technicians and Technologist to inspect, build and delivery production electronic and mechanical hardware.
• Support the continuous efforts to maintain a clean organized facility using 5S standards.

• Technical knowledge and skills related to complex electromechanical systems with embedded software.
• Superb writing and visual presentation skills
• Ample experience with the software suites best used to create clear and concise presentations and schedules.
• Ability to work productively and cooperatively with technicians, engineers, and managers.
• Experience planning capital expenditure projects.
• Bachelor's degree or significant directly relatable experience.
• Ability to readily obtain a SECRET clearance.

• Data Driven Decision Making (DDDM).
• Hands-on experience with installing, operating, and maintaining complex equipment.
• Agile project management knowledge and experience which employs pull systems to achieve work balance.
• Experience with agile software such as Confluence, Jira or other similar tools.
• Fundamental knowledge about Lean Manufacturing such as 5S workplace organization techniques.
• Assuming that primary responsibilities are fully addressed, the ability to perform Kanban work orders from project backlog associated with program work scope.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical or operations discipline.