Senior Engineer - Energetic Devices

About the role

The Energetics and Propulsion Department is an engineering organization in the Hardware Engineering Directorate. This Department is responsible for the full spectrum of warhead, fuzing, and propulsion designs/technology, including power systems, ignition, and all other weapon initiation safety systems technology.

Responsibilities

• Apply and/or develop advanced one shot and/or battery technologies using scientific principles, theories and concepts implementation into products
• Provide technical oversight to various subcontractors
• Manage subcontract suppliers to specify and deliver required subsystem components on schedule and on budget
• Frequently interface with the customer to identify user needs
• Commitment to program schedule and budget
• Technical oversight of our power source batteries development programs
• You will ensure two-way communication management; serve as the day-to-day liaison to the programs concerning resource technical assignments
• Contribute to technology development roadmaps
• Support failure analysis and corrective action through redesign of failed one shot device components or systems
• Present one shot device design models and supporting analyses/test results to internal and customer review meetings
• Support proposals requiring one shots technologies
• Support development of Critical Item Development Specifications (CIDS)
• Oversee fact-finding and contract negotiations
• Test data reduction
• Ensure technical rigor and depth of all deliverables
• Must be willing to travel to suppliers and government facilities
• Technical management of subcontracts on Government program
• Proposal and cost preparation, requirements definition, and one shot device subsystems analysis, test and verification; operational test support; supplier collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 5 years of prior relevant experience OR an Advanced degree and 3 years of relevant experience
• Five (5) years of experience in fuzing / one shots/ Battery / engineering technology and/or engineering design
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree
• Eight (8) or more years of directly related experience in one shot devices and their applications
• Directly related experience in one shots subsystems design, development, and test
• Experience in working with and managing one shot suppliers
• Willingness to travel, including international, to provide supplier support
• Supplier collaboration experience and oversight generating specifications and statements of work (SOW)
• Experience in One-Shot component designs, ability to evaluate performance data, capable of evaluating MIL-DTL-23659 compliance, and creation of technical data packages
• Experience in business development and technology road mapping
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple and competing priorities
• Working knowledge or experience with either missile design or development, production support and integration
• Active Secret or Top Secret Clearance (Department of Defense)