Senior Consultant

SAIC is seeking a qualified candidate to serve as a part-time senior consultant to multiple Mk48 Heavyweight Torpedo programs, someone that knows the historical Mk48 development and in-service issues. Prospective candidates must demonstrate in-depth experience with the Mk48 torpedo theory of operation for legacy and current hardware configuration. The candidate must also have the proper knowledge and experience to provide background on the design, the operation of the electrical power system and to support failure analysis approaches, as well as, root cause analysis.

Specific roles and responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to the following:

- Provide direct support to the program manager and corporate staff on technical issues

- Prepare variance documentation as required to address TDP or manufacturing issues

- Maintain dialog with government production and technical authorities to resolve programmatic technical issues through a non-confrontational, collaborative, and transparent working environment at all levels

- Support vendor and sub-contractor variance and or ECP efforts to gain government approval

- Propose studies or technical instruction tasks to improve the operation or ease of manufacture of Mk48 subsystems.

- Provide familiarization training to engineering and manufacturing team on hardware functions, interfaces, critical features, failure analysis.

- Review and approve technical deliverables to the government for accuracy, clarity, and final acceptance

- Review procurement actions as required to ensure vendors are; qualified, responsive, understand the nuances of the product, and resolve their questions or concerns

- Lead efforts to resolve performance issues encountered in manufacturing, factory acceptance testing. Government acceptance testing, or in-service operations.

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

- B.S. / M.S. in an Engineering related.
- Minimum of 18 years experience required.
- Must be highly motivated and have excellent problem solving skills.
- Must have strong interpersonal skills to work in a team environment.
- Must be able to complete tasks in an unsupervised and self-directed fashion.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office programs
- Must demonstrate strong organizational skills and the ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently with changing deadlines and priorities.

CLEARANCE

- Must have the ability to obtain SECRET clearance.