Senior Project Engineer - Continuous Improvement

The Senior Project Engineer - Continuous Improvement is a hybrid technical and organizational role responsible for diagnosing engineering execution on the company projects time, quality, or predictability (particularly within configuration control and design execution) and leading the improvement projects that fix it. This role combines problem solving rigor with broad organizational influence and sound judgment, partnering across functions to drive engineering priorities to closure while engaging credibly with the engineering organization.

This role is an execution-health and process-ownership role: the person in this seat is accountable for making the engineering organization run better and for the measurable results of the improvement projects.

The base salary range for this position is $120,000 - $155,000 per year plus a comprehensive compensation package. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

Duties and

Responsibilities

Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Assess how engineering work actually flows through the Chrysalis program, requirements development, the quality program, design, documentation, and updates affecting the license. Identify the specific points where work stalls, quality slips, or rework accumulates.
• Scope and lead structured improvement projects using a rigors problem solving process (an example is Six Sigma/DMAIC-style methodology) to resolve root causes of engineering execution pinch points, not just symptoms.
• Partner with Engineering, Project Controls, Construction, Quality, and Licensing to redesign and implement improved processes, workflows, and tools
• Build and maintain metrics and dashboards that make engineering execution health (cycle time, rework rate, configuration control backlog, design review throughput, etc.) visible to engineering leadership
• Operate as a direct extension of engineering leadership: represent leadership priorities in cross-functional forums, track follow-through on commitments, and surface emerging risks before they become critical-path issues
• Detects program execution obstacles that potentially affect performance and/or the ability to meet agreed upon deliverables and takes timely preventative or corrective action to obviate them
• Facilitate structured root-cause problem solving for recurring execution failures, and drive corrective and preventive actions to closure
• Analyzes short and long-term project and company resource needs
• Own headcount and staffing plan development for the Chrysalis engineering organization: build and maintain staffing plans that align hiring, contractor ramp-up/ramp-down, and skill-mix decisions against the project schedule and upcoming milestones
• Partner with engineering leads, Program/Project Controls, and HR/Talent Acquisition to identify staffing gaps early, forecast future headcount needs against schedule changes, and recommend build-vs-contract tradeoffs
• Build structured problem-solving capability across the engineering organization by coaching engineers and engineering leads, rather than solving every issue personally
• Prepare and deliver clear, executive-ready updates on improvement initiatives, program health, and organizational risk for project and leadership reviews