Senior Risk and Reliability Engineer

Senior Risk and Reliability Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, reliability engineering, systems engineering, or similar from a recognized institution
• 10 years of experience in risk, reliability, or systems safety
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with customers
• Demonstrated ability to train and mentor junior members of the staff
• Experience in building relationships with customers and colleagues based on what and how you deliver that naturally leads both to the expansion or new work for yourself and your team.
• Strong communication skills to effectively convey insights and recommendations
• Willing to travel occasionally to work location or customer site approximately 10% of the time.
• This position requires ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• You will help defense, IC, and other government customers plan and execute their risk/reliability activities.
• You will provide risk and reliability guidance and analysis for national security space and ground systems.
• You will work closely with program office customers to perform assessments that provide important insights to senior decisionmakers. You will also lead small teams to accomplish your assignments.
• This position will enable senior leaders to make risk-informed decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• You will be the risk/reliability SME for several programs, serving as their point of contact for assessments and guidance. You will engage with other SMEs across ETG to deliver critical assessments for senior program managers.
• You will help the department adapt to a rapidly changing space industry and customer needs by helping to shape our risk/reliability capabilities strategy, developing innovative risk/reliability approaches for new space architectures, and delivering assessments that provide essential insights on time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s or Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, reliability engineering, systems engineering, or similar from a recognized institution
• 12 or more years of increasingly responsible experience in risk, reliability, systems safety, systems engineering, and/or mission assurance.
• Experience working with US Space Force, NASA, NNSA, NRO, FAA, and government agencies working across the space enterprise.
• Experience leading technical teams, tracking project progress, proposing and implementing project schedules, budgets, and resources and communicating project needs
• Understanding of statistical methods and adept at evaluating failures and anomalies
• Experience in applying system safety engineering and management principles and techniques to achieve acceptable mishap risk within the time, cost, and mission effectiveness constraints throughout the life cycle of the system.
• Expertise in an area of reliability analysis such as testing and system design, reliability operational assessment, Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS), structural reliability, software reliability, reliability testing, reliability modeling and prediction, failure analysis, root cause analysis, Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR), Windchill (formerly known as Relex), Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Probabilistic Risk assessment (PRA).
• Familiarity with DoD standards and guidance on risk, reliability, and systems safety such as MIL STD 882E, MIL HDBK 217F, MIL STD 1629, and NASA System Safety Handbook.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead small technical teams to produce and analytical products and communicate findings and recommendations on time and within budget