Systems Engineer

Overview:

Apogee has an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer in support of Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology and Logistics’ (SOF AT&L) Program Executive Office for Fixed Wing (PEO-FW).

This is a full-time opportunity located at MacDill, AFB, FL.

Responsibilities:

• Provide significant, expert-level support to government counterparts regarding the adequacy and clarity of agency engineering and analysis processes based on daily application of the processes and agency reporting requirements.
• Complete advanced engineering demand tasks such as reviewing engineering change proposals, requests for waivers and deviations, and nonconforming materials.
• Apply advanced tools to document and analyze the results of critical, complex activities and tasks.
• Provide expert-level inputs for status briefings to leadership, outlining assigned programs, projects, problems, and recommended resolutions.
• Expertly adjust technical support to meet emergencies, changing programs or production requirements within available resources and without sacrifice to completeness and accuracy.
• Work with organizational managers, budget personnel, and engineering authorities to develop and gain approval for proposed projects.
• Support contract modifications and make technical recommendations for change order approval; support budget control directly supporting the engineering effort.
• Provide decision support inputs for approval of plans, specifications, cost estimates, design calculations, schedules, cost proposals, and engineering studies.
• Support technical evaluation elements of market surveys conducted in conjunction with assigned projects and programs.
• Plan, execute, and document surveillance of design, development, and production efforts on behalf of government counterparts, using performance indicators identified in applicable engineering surveillance processes.
• Analyze trends in performance indicators to assist government counterparts with managing agency-level performance indicators, recommending corrective action, establishing lessons learned, and influencing the improvement of processes.
• Evaluate state-of-the-art scientific and environmental/engineering technologies and incorporate them into the planning, design, operation, maintenance, repair, and upgrade of applicable systems.
• Direct and coordinate engineering and maintenance programs and inform the development of criteria for specialized critical system design.
• Plan, develop, and implement procedures for reviewing acquisition programs and military engineering programs; direct engineering sufficiency review of these programs until turnover.

Qualifications:

Minimum Experience:

• Demonstrated expert-level experience in a DoD Program Management role in which in-depth knowledge of USSOCOM or other DoD aircraft integration was required
• Demonstrated expert-level experience with USSOCOM or other DoD aircraft Test & Evaluation and airworthiness processes
• Demonstrated expert-level experience in cross-portfolio/acquisition center coordination and stakeholder management
• Experience with aircraft aircraft cybersecurity and information assurance compliance
• Experience with software open architectures (i.e., Open Mission Systems)

• Extensive experience with aircraft weapon systems
• Knowledge/experience with the AFSOC or DoD Fixed-Wing aviation organizations

Travel: 25%