Robins AFB – Onsite

Ability to obtain Secret Clearance 

Responsibilities:

• Perform systems engineering to include expertise in systems design and integration, manufacturing, quality and industrial engineering, airworthiness, and configuration and data management.
• Assist in developing, deploying, and maintaining processes to assure weapon systems are fully integrated, manufactured, sustained, configuration managed, and operationally safe, suitable, and effective throughout their life cycle.
• Understand and execute AFPD 62-6, USAF Airworthiness, through standardized processes and issuance of flight authorizations.
• Understand and apply MIL-HDBK-516C Airworthiness Certification Criteria, to aircraft systems and subsystems.
• Support the System Integrity Programs including Mechanical Systems Integrity Program (MECSIP), assist in maintaining and updating the Critical Safety Item (CSI) list, and monitor airworthiness certification for mission partner aircraft.
• Apply OSS&E and airworthiness processes, as well as assist in providing risk assessments, safety analysis, and recommendations and address high priority safety issues.
• Assist in translating user requirements into weapons system requirements, which will be used to design, develop, fabricate, test and evaluate weapons systems, subsystems and equipment for eventual fielding and deployment.
• Use knowledge of systems engineering in support of system definition, development, integration, verification methods, sustainment, risk modeling/simulation, testing and evaluation, human system integration (HSI), crew stations engineering, OSS&E efforts, interoperability requirements, and airworthiness certification across a wide range of hardware and software systems including ground-based systems.
• Review and assist in performing assessments on program specific databases, analyzing BIT failure reports, and comparing failure reports against the BIT interpreter analyzer for accuracy of BIT indications
• Provide system integration guidance to aircraft program offices for the program system installation and system maintenance.
• Review and analyze technical proposals or modifications for design feasibility and system capability
• Assist in conducting performance effectiveness, cost effectiveness, cost performance, life-cycle cost, producibility, maintainability, supportability, reliability, technical, and schedule risk assessments, and schedule trade-off studies
• Conduct systems analyses to include, but not limited to, system design/design feasibility and state-of-the-art assessments.
• Provide system integration guidance to the government for the program system installation and system maintenance.
• Assist in reviewing and analyzing OEM technical proposals or modifications for design feasibility and system capability.
• Assist in performance effectiveness, cost effectiveness, cost performance, life- cycle cost, producibility, maintainability, supportability, reliability, technical and schedule risk assessments, and scheduling trade-off studies.
• Assist in systems analyses to including but not limited to system design/design feasibility and state-of-the-art assessments.
• Provide technical expertise and proper application of systems engineering processes to support technology and systems development.
• Assist in defining the maturation of technology development and technical risk reduction efforts; and evaluating and managing requirements, functional and physical architectures, and interfaces.
• Assist in managing the technical issues that arise as a result of the integration processes using a systems approach.
• Assist in developing a SEP to address the technical strategy of the development efforts.
• Employ procedures, methods, and tools for measuring technical progress and assist in assessing the effectiveness of plans and solutions.
• Assist in the development and review of the overall system design baseline (architecture and interoperability requirements).
• Assist in developmental planning support in evaluation of the military mission to be accomplished and any related requirements documentation.
• Assist in reviewing and analyzing proposals, including regulatory and other policy driver changes or proposed modifications, for design feasibility and system compatibility.
• Assist with the core engineering tasks as they relate to system design engineering.
• Assist in providing rapid response engineering service and support as augmentation to organic resources through in-depth problem identification, impact assessment, and development of corrective actions for critical supportability problems.
• Support and assist in conducting the system safety engineering program, including mishap risk assessments; evaluating contractor safety proposals and safety analyses; evaluating safety concerns of using and support commands; and assisting with resolution of high priority safety issues.
• Assist in performing material solution analyses leading up to design reviews.
• Assist in producing or supporting development of draft documentation and presentation materials as requested or necessitated by programmatic limits based on cost, schedule, and performance.
• Assist in providing support to produce or review products that include the following: technical evaluations/plans; engineering studies, reports, and analyses; and acquisition strategies/plans such as: ICD; Operational Requirements Document (ORD)/CDD; CONOPS; CPD; System Requirements Document (SRD); System Specification; RFPs; System Engineering Plan (SEP); Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP); Test Acceptance Procedures (ATPs); Program Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health Evaluation (PESHE); information support plan; PPP; Technology Assessment/Control Plan (TA/CP); emerging technology assessments and Technology Transition Plans (TTPs); Information Assurance Strategy (IAS); Security Classification Guide (SCG); Alternative Live Fire Test and Evaluation Plan; Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) compliance; Consideration of Technology Issues; Data Management Strategy; Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Survivability Assessments; Net-Centric Data Strategy; Spectrum Supportability Determination; Technical Data Rights Strategy; Technology Readiness; Assessment (TRA); Manufacturing Readiness Assessment (MRA); and other program/technical documents as required.
• Support project team meetings, working groups, and reviews as needed.
• Assist in analyzing equipment and software deficiencies; make recommendations for equipment and software deficiency corrections; and assist in developing, integrating, and testing equipment and software deficiency solutions.

Required Experience

One of the following:

• Bachelor's degree in an ABET accredited engineering discipline, and fifteen (15) years of experience in the respective technical / professional discipline being performed, five (5) years of which must be in the DoD
  • -OR-
• Bachelor’s degree in an ABET accredited engineering discipline, plus a Master's degree in engineering (Master's degree does not need to be ABET accredited), and at least twelve (12) years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, five (5) of which must be in the DoD
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance; U.S. Citizenship required
• Demonstrate proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Teams), & Adobe Acrobat