Systems Engineer Support, Senior

DCS Corp | Beavercreek

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In this role you will provide full-spectrum Systems Engineer Support to the Helicopter Program Office, HH-60W Program within the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.

Essential Job Functions:

In this role you will assist the HH-60W Engineering team by providing a wide range of rotary wing systems engineering support services for the stand-up of the HH-60W Air Force District of Washington mission.

You will apply rotary wing knowledge and experience in pre-acquisition definition and capabilities integration of requirements, acquisition program management principles, and policies/procedures to assist with the procurement of avionic systems/subsystems hardware and software throughout the total life cycle, in compliance with current Air Force regulations and guidelines.

You will apply integration, communication, coordination, organizational and planning expertise to activities and acquisition efforts across a broad spectrum of functional disciplines to assist with the implementation of program direction. The will be familiar with agile development and rapid prototyping.

You will assist in planning, organizing, and managing critical aspects of the development, production, and/or deployment of rotary wing capabilities to include managing program cost, schedule, performance, and risk.

You will assist in the full spectrum of actions required to award contracts and contract modifications to other Contractors that may include pre-award documentation, assistance in support of source selection activities, and post-award support requirements.

You will assist in performing a wide range of program management activities to include assistance in gathering data, conducting research and analyses, evaluation, and validation of acquisition programmatic documentation.

You will assist in pre-acquisition and acquisition strategy planning and implementation.

You will assist in the review and analysis of prime and sub-contractor earned value management systems.

You will assist in developing and analyzing key program metrics.

You will assist in developing and integrating risk management plans and strategies and supporting program briefings.

You will assist in milestone planning, tracking, scheduling, briefing preparation, staff coordination, and decision documentation preparation.

You will assist in determining program progress and communicate recommendations to the Government orally and in writing.

You will support various program office actions in the application of acquisition management initiatives, to include assisting program managers in arranging and supporting High Performance Teams (HPTs) to resolve acquisition related issues through data analysis.

You will assist the program office in complying with tasks and development of documentation related to Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E), Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) and Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) reporting requirements.

You will coordinate all acquisition milestone system engineering documentation updates to include, but not limited to, the Systems Engineering Plan (SEP), System Requirement Verification (SVR) matrix, Requirement Traceability, and System Breakdown Structure.

You will participate in, coordinate, and lead the system engineering working groups and IPTs meetings.

You will participate in SVR, Functional Configuration Audit (FCA), Physical Configuration Audit (PCA), DT&E and IOT&E programmatic reviews to capture entry and exit criteria, requirement verifications, and action items.

You will assist in the System Incident Reporting (SIR) process, coordinating the appropriate functional resources and tracking incidents to closure.

Required Skills:

Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.

An ABET- accredited Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Avionics, Comm/Nav, Systems) plus 15 years of experience, or Master's Degree plus 12 years of experience is required. 5 of the years' experience must be in the DoD.

Active Secret security clearance.

Recent aircraft experience.

Desired Skills:

PM experience.

Structures experience.