Systems Engineer Support, Senior

Essential Job Functions

• Assist the MH-139A Engineering team by providing a wide range of rotary wing systems engineering support services.
• Apply rotary wing knowledge and experience in pre-acquisition definition and capabilities integration of requirements, acquisition program management principles, and policies/procedures to assist with the procurement of avionic systems/subsystems hardware and software throughout the total life cycle, in compliance with current Air Force regulations and guidelines.
• Apply integration, communication, coordination, organizational and planning expertise to activities and acquisition efforts across a broad spectrum of functional disciplines to assist with the implementation of program direction.
• Be familiar with agile development and rapid prototyping.
• Afford critical aspects of the development, production, and/or deployment of rotary wing capabilities to include managing program cost, schedule, performance, and risk.
• Assist in planning, organizing, and managing critical aspects of the development, production, and/or deployment of rotary wing capabilities to include managing program cost, schedule, performance, and risk.
• Assist in the full spectrum of actions required to award contracts and contract modifications to other Contractors that may include pre-award documentation, assistance in support of source selection activities, and post-award support requirements.
• Assist in performing a wide range of program management activities to include assistance in gathering data, conducting research and analyses, evaluation, and validation of acquisition programmatic documentation.
• Afford pre-acquisition and acquisition strategy planning and implementation.
• Assist in the review and analysis of prime and sub-contractor earned value management systems.
• Afford developing and analyzing key program metrics.
• Afford developing and integrating risk management plans and strategies and supporting program briefings.
• Afford determining program progress and communicating recommendations to the Government orally and in writing.
• Support various program office actions in the application of acquisition management initiatives, to include assisting program managers in arranging and supporting High Performance Teams (HPTs) to resolve acquisition related issues through data analysis.
• Afford complying with tasks and development of documentation related to Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E), Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) and Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) reporting requirements.
• Coordinate all acquisition milestone system engineering documentation updates to include, but not limited to, the Systems Engineering Plan (SEP), System Requirement Verification (SVR) matrix, Requirement Traceability, and System Breakdown Structure.
• Participate in, coordinate, and lead the system engineering working groups and IPTs meetings.
• Participate in SVR, Functional Configuration Audit (FCA), Physical Configuration Audit (PCA), DT&E and IOT&E programmatic reviews to capture entry and exit criteria, requirement verifications, and action items.
• Afford the System Incident Reporting (SIR) process, coordinating the appropriate functional resources and tracking incidents to closure.

Required Skills

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• An ABET- accredited Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Avionics, Comm/Nav, Systems) plus 12 years of experience, or Master’s Degree plus 10 years of experience is required.
• Five of the years’ experience must be in the DoD.
• Active Secret with security clearance.