Senior Space Program Management & Acquisition Support

SSI is searching for a Chief Engineer located in Albuquerque, NM. The candidate will support the development of first-of-kind operational space or space-related missions. This handpicked candidate must possess technical expertise and experience with developing, designing, building, and integrating advanced electro-optical (EO) hardware and software.

As the Chief Engineer, you will lead a small team of technical specialists and engineers through requirements development, and design reviews, and provide technical oversight of fielding, testing, operations, and sustainment of large-scale optical systems. A successful candidate should be a leader and problem solver with a proven ability to deliver superior results as part of a high-performing team in a high-profile, fast-paced environment. The candidate will apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts for highly classified systems, while also effectively communicating complex results with management and executive leadership.

In this position, you will provide System Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) to the customer at Kirtland AFB, NM. For each project, the customer sets up small, agile, and empowered teams, including the program manager, technical specialists, contracting, finance, and security, and they use the right acquisition strategies to set the effort up for success. You will work in one of these small, highly empowered teams where every team member is directly responsible for the success of the program.

Role and Responsibilities:
   ·        Leads requirements development and decomposition, design reviews, interpretation, and analysis of technical solutions for complex optical systems.
·        Leads technical programs, projects, or tasks whose technical complexity requires engineering oversight.
·        Ensures completion of tasks within estimated time frames and budget constraints.
·        Provides input to the government customer concerning risks to performance, schedule, and budget due to either proposed contractor plans or the contractor's execution of accepted plans.
·        Ensures the quality of the program, project, or task deliverables meets or exceeds standards or metrics and assesses such deliverables to ensure that the final deliverables will meet the warfighting purpose for which they are intended.
·        Plans and performs engineering research, design development, and other engineering assignments in conformance with the design, engineering, and customer specifications.
·        Responsible for the overall technical/engineering portions of major projects or programs.
·        Coordinates with multiple partners/agencies to ensure system engineering communities support delivery milestones.
·        Tracks and advises design trades and associated costs, schedule, and technical impacts to requirements.
·        Initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project’s inception to the conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs.
·        Provides strategic advice, technical guidance, and expertise to program and project staff.
·        Provides detailed analysis, evaluation, and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission-critical challenges/issues.
·        Leads studies and analyses of data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
·        Communicate, concisely, and with technical accuracy—oral and written.
·        Other duties as required.

Required Qualifications:

- Minimum ten (10) years DoD/IC, or relevant industry work experience.

- An applicable engineering degree from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) or possess a Professional Engineering license.

- MA/MS/ME degree.

- Proven experience and/or qualifications in development and fielding satellite systems.

- Understanding of operational environment and corresponding mission user needs.

- Knowledge of space system engineering, development, and manufacturing.

- Experience in DoD program management including program development and transition.

- Experience with Integrated Master Schedules, and risk management.

- Experience with Statements of Work (SOW) and Performance Work Statements (PWS).

- Active TS clearance with in-scope T5/SSBI is required, along with SCI eligibility and participation in Continuous Evaluation.

- Must meet all requirements for SCI and SAP access and be willing to undergo a polygraph examination.

- Full-time, on site in vicinity of Kirtland AFB, NM, and will require travel up to 30% of time within the continental United States.

Desired Qualifications:

- Five (5) years of relevant DoD and/or Industry work experience with SAP and/or SCI.

- System Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) to Government program office.

- Experience with rapid prototyping.

- Experience with integrated air, space and cyberspace capabilities.

- Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining ground mission planning architecture and software.

- Experience with ACAT I/II level acquisition programs.

- Experience using multivariable optimization in mission planning software systems.

- Experience in planning and executing test campaigns for space systems.

- Fluency with IC organizations.

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