Jake Filler

Experience

1. Principal Engineer, Project Engineering Lead

   Mirion

   Jan 2023 — Present · Cranberry Township, PA, US

   Works with Engineering Management to ensure the tasks and responsibilities are assigned and executed.• Responsible for ensuring day-to-day tasking of engineering staff assigned to the project is complete.• Provides and maintains engineering tasks information including relevant linkages, external dependencies, and accurate status.• Promptly raises any issue (external dependencies, etc.) that threatens the ability of the project team to meet schedule, cost, and customer commitments.• Provide/reviews project metric data on a regular basis.• Continuously monitors cost and schedule performance against plan commitments, explains variances, develops recovery plans, and collaborates with the PM for appropriate updates to project schedule.• Provides rigorous scope control and immediately notify the PM of any requests that would impact commitments.• If requested, performs a cost and schedule impact analysis for proposed changes, and adjust project plans accordingly if proposed scope changes are approved.• Owns and manages technical risks (identify, propose mitigations, and keep updated in risk register).• Reports concerns about the performance of engineers to Engineering Manager.• Contributes and participates in PSRs.• Institutes project TRB meetings and ensure TRBs are conducting, documenting, and properly dispositioning CRs.• Initiates creation of engineering documentation and ensures documents are updated as required through the project lifecycle.• Initiates, schedules, leads, and verifies approval of Project Milestone Reviews.• Participates in the development and approval of planning documents.• Works with Engineering Management to develop a staffing plan to best meet project needs.• Ensures the engineering project team understands the plan for the project, including the project scope, schedule, budget, quality plan, and support plan.• Develops and incorporates process exceptions or tailoring of those plans and provide the rationale behind the changes.

Education

• Harvard Business School

  Executive Education: Leadership and Strategy

  2017 — 2018

• Penn State University

  Bachelor's Degree, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

  2011 — 2015