TESS- Sr. System Certification/TPE ENGINEER (Team Lead)

About the role

Senior technical engineer supporting system certification and Technical Performance Evaluation activities while serving as the designated Task Order Team Lead for day-to-day administration, coordination, and Government correspondence. Position located at Building 1470, Peterson Space Force Base, CO; periodic travel required. U.S. citizenship required; TS/SCI clearance with eligibility for SCI access required.

Responsibilities

• Review development and operational test plans/procedures, Test Objective Worksheets, requirements documents, deficiency reports, scenarios, and simulations for impacts to system integrity and certification.
• Support test preparation and test-related meetings; evaluate proposed test methods, scenarios, simulations, data-reduction requirements, and data-recording requirements.
• Support certification test execution, data collection, quality control, analysis, and identification of technical deficiencies or integrity issues.
• Support certification technical activities, including design/test reviews, certification status tracking, technical reports, meeting documentation, and certification database maintenance.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute Technical Performance Evaluations (TPEs); develop procedures, TOWs, exercise support requests, and data-collection checklists.
• Analyze end-to-end technical performance; document and score problem reports; prepare evaluation reports, findings, recommendations, briefings, and lessons learned.
• Travel as required to support testing, technical meetings, evaluations, and other mission activities.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day point of contact to the COR for general task-order administration and correspondence.
• Organize, direct, and coordinate activities across the task-order requirements and address daily management of overall contract support.
• Determine core work times in coordination with mission needs and provide the required Weekly Activity Report covering work performed, level of effort, recommendations, and weekly highlights.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of demonstrated relevant experience with covered systems identified by the PWS.
• At least 10 years of demonstrated relevant experience in testing, analyzing, planning, operations, analytical studies, or systems development related to military space programs, simulations, and systems.
• Relevant experience with one or more covered systems: ITW/AA Situation Monitoring; Theater Event System (TES); Missile Defense systems that are also ITW/AA; COBRA DANE; Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC); NC3 systems such as FSAM, Nuclear Planning and Execution System, or Secure Messaging and Routing Terminal Next Generation; and/or space surveillance/control and space-warning systems.
• U.S. citizenship.
• TS security clearance with eligibility for SCI access; must have TS/SCI access when required to perform work at specified classified facilities.

Qualifications

• Prior technical/team leadership on DoD or USSTRATCOM engineering, test, evaluation, certification, or A&AS efforts.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams and interfacing directly with Government CORs, technical leads, and test organizations.
• Strong technical writing, briefing, scheduling, and status-reporting skills.

Benefits

• Competitive 401(k) plan with employer matching
• Competitive Health Benefits with employer contributions
• 11 Paid Holidays per year
• 15 Days starting PTO for new hires
• Tuition/CE reimbursement
• Relocation Assistance
• Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit Accounts
• STD/LTD/Life Insurance with buyup options
• Veteran Hiring Preference
• Conversion to an Employee-owned firm (ESOP) in 2026—a lucrative benefit to employee-owners!

About Us

Constellation West is an award-winning company that delivers Information Technology (IT) engineering services and solutions and non-IT subject matter expertise worldwide. Established in 19