Senior Satellite Ground Systems Engineer

Senior Satellite Ground Systems Engineer

Requirements

• Minimum fifteen (15) years of DoD/IC or relevant industry work experience.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience executing systems engineering scope consistent with IEEE 15288 systems engineering competency framework and systems acquisition duties consistent with the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) part 234 and the DoD 5000 series of regulations, or analogous industry standards.
• Minimum of (3) three years of relevant experience executing these duties in a satellite operational ground system Cat 3 / Cat C program or larger.
• Experience in DoD program management including program development and transition.

Responsibilities

• Assuring specifications and requirements are developed, established, decomposed, allocated, executed and maintained as part of a systematic verification program, consistent with the program requirements baseline.
• Execution and oversight of ongoing risk mitigation measures by various government stakeholders and contractors.
• Work internal to the program office and inter-divisional work needs for the program.
• Develop and implement necessary metrics and standards for judging successful systems engineering process execution inclusive of contractor, subcontracting, and procurement systems execution for all critical systems engineering, acquisition and development related scope.
• Generate and execute program scope in a systems engineering management plan (SEMP) together with program and higher command directives.
• Be familiar with documenting, tracking, and periodically reporting to program management and the Government compliance offices performance against standards, compliance against metrics, deviations, and corrective actions.
• Be familiar with engineering resource planning, quality improvement initiatives, process improvement initiatives and managing against a baselined plan.
• Maintain proficiency identifying, creating, evaluating and maintaining technical baseline records. Understand how to integrate work duties across cost, technical, schedule and risk spectrum to deliver balanced success.
• Ensures completion of tasks within estimated time frames and budget constraints.
• Ensures the quality of the program, project, or task deliverables meet or exceed standards or metrics and assesses such deliverables to ensure that the final deliverables will meet the warfighting purpose for which they are intended.
• Coordinates with multiple partners/agencies to ensure system engineering communities support delivery milestones.
• Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff.
• Leads studies and analyses of data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
• Communicate clearly, concisely, and with technical accuracy—oral and written.
• Other duties as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and preferred intimacy with systems engineering processes generally accepted and adopted across US Government acquisitions and operations as guided by DAU and the DOD 5000 series of regulations together with analogous industry standards sourced from IEEE, PMI and INCOSE.
• Education, experience, and knowledge of Government acquisition, systems engineering, contracts, subcontracts, finance and business operations methods, techniques and tools.
• Education, experience, and knowledge of Government acquisition policies and standards, and the tools, methods, rules and regulations for conducting systems engineering and acquisition.
• Background and demonstrated success implementing systems engineering processes effectively at an op-tempo compatible with rapid prototyping and agile software development.
• Ability to operate with little or no daily oversight, with initiative and competence to recognize unmet program needs and meet them, self-guiding to deliver success against program and industry standards.
• Experience with successful, concurrent execution of multiple satellite operations ground system functional areas while executing in a dynamic, changing work environment often requiring a rapid replan, risk triage and baseline of work duties to meet program needs.
• Proficiency translating architecture and CONOPs information into actionable and verifiable requirements across a system’s life cycle. Comfortable executing parts of a verification program inclusive of test, demonstration, analysis and inspection.
• Experience developing, verifying and handing over to operations a fully ready ground satellite operations control system.
• Ability to create, integrate and successful manage to an integrated master schedule across the family of ground satellite operations functions and systems engineering disciplines.
• Familiar with Enterprise Risk Management and industry tools such as Crystal Ball and @Risk as well as processes and methods for developing and managing a risk and opportunities management program.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage small teams of key personnel to execute aspects of acquisition, systems engineering and product development through verification.
• Demonstrated familiarity with and ability to judge adherence to standard acquisition and program management systems and tools (i.e. a performance measurement baseline (PMB), Integrated master Schedule (IMS), an earned value system (EVMS)), Government standards, regulations, contract provisions, and program plans, directives and procedures.
• Familiarity and recent experience complying with Cyber requirements and standards as applicable to a predominantly software development and operationally fielded program.
• Ability to cogently and concisely analyze progress, problems and develop corrective action plans; provide status and recommendations to assure clear understanding and sound documentation of the program baseline, and provide oversight of corrective actions.
• Ability to effectively interact with team, leaders and customers orally and in writing.
• Ability to work successfully with a highly diverse work force – e.g. USSF officers & enlisted, technicians, engineers, scientists, physicists, business and contracts managers, etc.
• Ability to work in a 24×7 test and operational environment up to four times annually for durations of up to one month each.