Principal Program Operations Engineer

Description

The role is based in Chantilly, VA, with the company's aeronautics systems group.

This is a customer-facing position. You will liaise with end users, Integrated Product Team members and program leadership to resolve technical needs and concerns as they come up.

You will support troubleshooting across the full system lifecycle and help with data analysis and integration between end users, field teams and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Work non-traditional hours when needed, including nights, weekends and holidays, or at the customer's direction.
• Act as the on-site representative for the customer organization.
• Serve as the link between the operations and engineering organizations.
• Troubleshoot complex system issues by working with the responsible subsystems engineers.
• Keep overall system performance on target through lower-level functions and subsystems.
• Investigate and record issues, and coordinate field replacements or upgrades of affected parts.
• Help improve processes, designs and future operations work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field plus 5 years of related engineering experience, or a Master's degree in STEM plus 3 years, or a PhD in STEM plus 1 year.
• Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance or higher, with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or current enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
• Ability to obtain and keep Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a timeframe the company deems reasonable.
• Self-directed, with strong communication skills, experience leading multi-disciplinary technical teams, and the ability to build and carry out a strategy.
• Preferred: current SAP clearance.
• Preferred: familiarity with coding languages such as MATLAB, Python and Java.
• Preferred: experience with air vehicles, ground segments, sensor payloads and support equipment.
• Preferred: experience supporting fielded aircraft systems.
• Preferred: experience with DoD or other government customers.
• Preferred: experience across systems engineering disciplines, including requirements, integration and technical configuration management (CM or Technical Baseline).
• Preferred: experience with root cause and fielded issue investigations, and with operational missions.
• Preferred: experience running operational utility assessments of operations, data flow, mission performance and technical risk to shape requirements and design concepts.
• Preferred: experience collecting and analyzing operational mission data to judge mission effectiveness and recommend changes to system design, architecture and operating concepts.

Conditions

Based in Chantilly, VA.

Travel is about 10% of the time.

Top Secret clearance is required before start.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Base salary range for this primary level is $103,600.00 to $155,400.00, a general guideline. Final pay depends on factors such as the scope of the role and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

The application window is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Depending on the role, overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus may be paid on top of base pay.
• Annual bonuses reward individual contribution and let employees share in company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Benefits include health insurance, insurance for life and disability, a savings plan, company holidays, and paid time off for vacation and personal business.