Job Title: Senior Associate, Integration/Test Engineering - SIL Manager
Job Code: 37317
Job Location: Greenville, TX
Job Schedule: 9/80
Job Description: The SIL (System Integration Lab) Manager leads the daily technical and operational activities of a high-performance integration environment supporting advanced airborne ISR ground electronics systems across multiple programs. This role combines hands-on technical oversight, team leadership, and coordination with cross-functional engineering and program stakeholders. The position has direct impact on system readiness, mission success, and the continuous improvement of SIL workflows and capabilities.
Essential Functions: - Interfaces with supervisor, customer, Project Engineering, and Program Management to determine System Integration Laboratory (SIL) support requirements.
- Starts up all SIL equipment and loads all SIL software in an orderly fashion; shuts down in the same manner to reconfigure the SIL or close down for the day.
- Monitors SIL schedules and ongoing test/integration activities and provides technical support, troubleshooting and repair or replacement of defective equipment.
- Assists in planning / executing periodic SIL upgrades to new wiring and equipment configurations.
- Direct a team in fabricating, assembling, and installing electrical/electronic parts, materials, hardware, wiring harnesses and components into complete assemblies.
- Works with management to develop and adhere to schedules and budgets to accomplish assigned work.
- Provides regular status updates for ongoing work efforts to keep management and our customer informed.
- Employee will be required to obtain and maintain CompTIA Security+ certification.
- Physical Requirements: Some lifting required.
- Candidate must be willing and able to work a flexible job schedule to include off-shift work and occasional overtime.
- Candidate must be willing to travel both CONUS and OCONUS up to 20% of the time.
- Must have a current DOD Secret Security Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.
- Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience.
- In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge of airborne ISR ground support systems.
- Demonstrated experience as a military or civilian technician working on an airborne ISR platform is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated understanding of hardware test strategies, fault isolation, automated tests, use of diagnostic test equipment, and generating and interpreting test requirements.
- Demonstrated knowledge, skills and abilities sufficient to install, modify, fabricate, and repair RF/LAN/Control interconnect harnesses.
- Demonstrated understanding of RF distribution systems including RF down-converting, up-converting, transceivers, non-blocking switching, and electrically phase matched distribution architectures.
- Demonstrated knowledge and ability to perform RF propagation analysis through complex RF distribution and switching systems.
- Demonstrated experience with the integration and troubleshooting of various aircraft radios, satellite communication systems and datalinks.
Preferred Additional Skills:- Military or Field Service experience maintaining ISR airborne platforms or ground systems is highly desirable.
- Experience using analog or digital multi-meters, clamp-on ammeters, Spectrum Analyzers, Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR), Oscilloscopes, Fiber Optic test equipment and other equipment as needed.
- Active counterintelligence polygraph.
- Experience with RC135 platforms.
- Current CompTIA Security+ certification is highly desired.
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