Acquisition Program Engineer, Senior

About the role

The Long-Range Systems Division (EBJ) delivers advanced, long-range, precise air-launched weapon capabilities. EBJ develops, produces, and sustains the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM), JASSM-Extended Range (JASSM-ER), the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), and any new Long-Range air delivered systems. Additionally, the division is responsible for all foreign military sales (FMS) of Long-Range System.

Responsibilities

• Conduct and support all engineering and technical activities required during the material solution analysis, technology, engineering, and manufacturing development, production and deployment, and operation and support phases of the systems acquisition process.
• Develop and prepare all engineering and technical documentation that is an inherent part of the activities listed above (e.g. Systems Engineering Plan).
• Conduct technical reviews, audits, and system engineering technical reviews and the planning and execution of all necessary technical reviews, assessments, and interchange meetings.
• Implement robust processes to address the life-cycle requirements of each product support area.
• Translate DoD user requirements into system requirements for designing, developing, testing, and evaluating systems and subsystems.
• Perform reviews, studies, audits, evaluations, and analyses and provide technical recommendations to the Government.
• Review and analyze proposals or modifications for technical feasibility, compatibility, and cost effectiveness.
• Provide engineering analysis of system training, training equipment and simulator requirements; prepare technical documentation; and provide engineering evaluation of equipment and simulator designs.
• Conduct engineering performance, effectiveness, cost effectiveness, cost performance, life cycle cost, producibility, reliability and maintainability, risk, and scheduling trade-off studies.
• Conduct, make, or buy analyses for systems, subsystems and components of principal, support, and test equipment.
• Conduct and evaluate time and engineering cost estimates in support of research, development, test, training, and acquisition of armament related systems.
• Develop, prepare, review, and integrate selected milestone review documentation, periodic reports, and certifications as identified in DoDI 5000.02 and AF Supplement 1, and recommend and prepare changes.
• Provide independent analysis of system readiness for production and risk management.
• Provide FMS case management support.
• Conduct reviews on armament programs portfolio to evaluate and/or recommend alternative plans, improve systems engineering programs/processes, manage/sustain program technical baseline, and design/perform system level tests to assure that subsystems and system performance is achieved IAW approved specifications.
• Provide engineering support services and inputs to program and project risk management activities in compliance with Air Force Systems Engineering Assessment Model (AF SEAM) processes.
• Provide proposal analysis support services that compare and quantify proposed systems, components, approaches for technical feasibility, compatibility, and cost effectiveness.
• Provide concepts and requirements analyses support services including, but not limited to, reviewing and analyzing: Initial Capabilities Documents; CDDs; CPDs; AoAs; Military Utility Assessments (MUAs); CONOPS; Technology Development Strategies; Functional Configuration Audits/Physical Configuration Audits (FCAs/PCAs), and; Technology Standards Profiles.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited college plus 20 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited college plus 15 years of relevant experience; or PhD in engineering from an ABET-accredited college plus 5 years of professional experience.

Qualifications

• Must have an active Secret Security Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret clearance.
• Must be able to complete a U.S. government background investigation.