Systems Engineer – Sustainment Engineering

Regular requisition; Secret clearance required day one and must be maintained. Job family: IT Infrastructure and Operations. Core qualifications: Engineering Processes, Product Lifecycle, Sustaining Engineering, System Integration, Systems Design. No certifications required. U.S. citizenship required.

About the role

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Engineer Senior and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

As a Systems Engineer Senior, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission to provide sustaining engineering and product lifecycle management support for multiple Force Protection System (FPS) Family of Systems (FOS) to the IBD-SS II program. You will play a crucial role in executing planning, design, and implementation of system engineering projects, by providing clear technical direction to team members and having breadth of knowledge as it pertains to systems integration and design. You will work hand in hand with test engineers and technical writers in developing engineering test plans with commanding knowledge of engineering processes, standards, and workflows, and will work closely with the Configuration Manager to ensure all system’s product baselines are maintained.

As the Sustainment Engineer you will be responsible for reviewing existing Urgent Capability Acquisition (UCA) programs and providing solutions to issues usually related to sustainment engineering, including investigating root causes of errors or failures, identifying alternatives for end-of-life components, and creating and maintaining documentation. Collaborate with IBD-SS team members from engineering, training, logistics, and operational support as well as government customers, to facilitate operational improvements and provide reach-back support to perform troubleshooting, maintenance, documentation distribution, sparing, and system health reports. Drive key outcomes by assisting in the analysis of failed products to improve sustainment support through viable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Review baseline designs for errors and failure points.
• Execute Level of Repair Analysis for systems end to end.
• Develop Engineering BOMs from Technical Data Packages.
• Attend Engineering Review Boards for engineering change requests and prepare documents for CCB.
• Brief Engineering Change Proposals to CCB.
• Develop engineering test plans and reports.
• Address obsolescence issues and concerns working in conjunction with the IBD-SS logistics team.
• Interface with other engineers, SMEs, and technicians to solve equipment malfunctions and design flaws.
• Manage the full life cycle of systems with a focus on sustainment engineering.
• Support existing systems by researching, reviewing design, assisting procurement, cataloging, installing, and conducting maintenance of FP Systems.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science (years of experience will be considered in lieu of a degree).
• Experience: 5+ years of related experience.
• Security clearance: U.S. Secret security clearance required day one; must maintain secret clearance to remain on contract.
• Role requirements: This position is onsite 100% in Huntsville, AL. Travel may be required to support the mission up to 50% both CONUS and OCONUS contingent on mission requirements and could change based on customer requirements.

Skills

• QA/QC experience as it relates to Physical Configuration Audits.
• Understanding of the full scope of the engineering lifecycle from concept to divestment.
• Experience translating an Engineering BOM into a Service BOM for logistics.
• Experience with DoD Systems, Engineering requirements and DoD contracts.
• Superior technical writing skills, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Field Bullet