Principal Project Engineer

Job Summary: Provide technical leadership and engineering management for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson project team. Responsible for the technical expertise for the project, communicating needs, and progressing the engineering solutions for project needs to our project customers. Provide technical guidance and leadership. Apply systems engineering processes and skills to systematically convert customer needs into designs that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Responsible for systems engineering planning, scheduling, and execution of requirements analysis, system design, analyses and trade studies, hardware/software design oversight, requirements verification, system integration, and system-level tests. Has familiarity with some of the following technologies: devices, back office enterprise systems (including financial transactions, reconciliation, payment processing, and customer services), and mobile applications. Provide assistance to external customers by diagnosing and troubleshooting software and hardware problems and helping customers install applications and programs. This position typically works under general supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with and often leads the engineering team on a project. Team sizes are typically ten or more engineers.
• Task and direct all engineering resources assigned and document the organizational chart for the engineering teams along with roles and responsibilities.
• Assist the program manager with schedule status, controlling project costs, and managing risks and technical issues.
• Ensure project and development teams are properly appraised of status, schedule, and scope.
• Help to develop and manage the baseline of system requirements, subsystem requirements, systems configurations, system architectures, and system designs.
• Support the project team in defining and documenting the system architecture and design
• Support developing hardware and software designs to ensure compliance with requirements and system design
• Support project risk management activities
• Deliver engineering solutions that meet budget, schedule, and agreed scope.
• Manage the creation, maintenance, review, and QA of the System Design documents and artifacts in accordance with the contract, company processes, and the project Engineering Management Plan.
• Interface with customers on engineering requirements, designs, issues, planning, and status updates.
• Support and monitor software development work activities and status using tools such as Jira.
• Support defect identification and resolution and monitor test status using tools such as TestRail.
• Support collaborations with internal departments, customer representatives, third-party suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex customer issues; working directly with Program Manager and Engineering when issues must be escalated.
• Respond to customers in a professional and timely manner to deliver workarounds and solutions for complex technical problems.
• Manages escalated customer issues and exercises independent judgment while troubleshooting issues.
• Establish and review engineering statements of work and work breakdown structures in conjunction with project plans and schedules.
• Work with functional engineering managers to collect estimates for bids and proposals.
• Hybrid position 3 days weekly in office: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday #LI-hybrid

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Four-year college degree in Electrical or Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, preferred. OR equivalent years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Eight (8)+ years of related experience or an applicable Master's degree with six (6)+ years of related experience.
• Experience in creating, analyzing, documenting, and testing system and subsystem designs.
• Familiarity with project management principles.
• Must be able to work under project deadlines and be able to support the Program Manager in the establishment and maintenance of engineering project schedules and cost budgets.
• Must have strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Must have some leadership experience working with and building teams.

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

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Cubic Pay Range:

$140,000 - $170,000 + benefits.

The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.