Title:  Lead, Systems Engineering

Job Title: Lead, Systems Engineering

Job Code: 37080

Job Location: Greenville, TX

Schedule: 9/80 Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Lead Systems Engineer (SE) will be responsible for supervising a team supporting the requirements, design, development, test, integration, and troubleshooting of complex, specialized hardware/software systems installed on airborne and simulation lab communication platforms. The Lead SE will be a subject matter expert with comprehensive knowledge of job area and in-depth knowledge of project engineering and management.

Essential Functions:

• Prepare and present technical results for internal and external program meetings.
• Document and support design verification tests within lab, ground and flight test environments.
• Develop, track and present technical metrics.
• Evaluate requirements definition, flow-down and traceability.
• Analyze data from verification test efforts.
• Generate and maintain schedule for engineering activities.
• Maintain risk assessment and development of mitigation strategies.
• Work closely with Project Engineering and Program Management.
• Support training and development of new team members.
• Responsible for managing engineering team during travel to offsite facilities for integration.
• Manage large, complex project initiatives of substantial importance to the organization with minimal oversight or direction on and off-site.
• Communicates within and outside of the organization to explain and influence changes to practices, processes and approaches.
• Provides input into new products/processes and implements operational plans that have measurable impact on business or functional results.
• Responsible for a team of engineers during off-site installations.
• Exceptional written, oral, and presentation communication skills.
• Read and interpret technical specifications, engineering blueprints, test procedures, and technical publications.
• Hands-on experience with testing, integrating, and verifying software and/or hardware.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, Teamcenter, DOORS, etc.
• Experience working successfully both independently and in a team environment with the ability to lead teams through an entire annual sustainment cycle.
• Excellent people skills to include collaborating in a multi-disciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team environment.
• Engineering efforts involving FAA-certified general category aircraft. (747, 757, or 737 preferred)
• Creating system drawings, schematics and/or Signal interfaces.
• Airborne and or operational experience with Mission Communications Systems offboard radios or network communications.
• Working with subcontractors and US Government customers.
• Knowledge of Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process and implementation of systems that achieved an Authorization to Operate (ATO) on government networks DODAF.
• Working government and/or military program effort bidding process.
• Willing and able to travel up to 20%.
• This position includes an expectation of 10 to 15% shift, on-call, or weekend work.
• Must have an active Secret DoD Clearance with abilty to obtain and maintain a Top Secret with SCI.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with nine (9) years of leading projects and/or task teams in the integration of systems and/or subsystems in airborne and/or Lab environments experience.
• Graduate degree with seven (7) years of leading projects and/or task teams in the integration of systems and/or subsystems in airborne and/or Lab environments experience.
• In Lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of leading projects and/or task teams in the integration of systems and/or subsystems in airborne and/or Lab environments experience.
• Current Secruity+ Certification is required.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Active Top Secret with SCI security clearance.
• Coursework and/or experience in systems engineering, systems architecture, systems analysis and design, system performance modeling, integration and/or project management, and/or model-based systems engineering.
• CompTIA Security+ Certification.
• Ability to successfully pass an FAA Class 3 Flight Physical and Altitude chamber to support test flights.
• Military EO/IR, Radar, RF, ECM, IRCM and/or Aircraft Self Protection Maintenance experience.
• Experienced using commands and operating in a Linux environment.

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