Senior Payloads Analyst

Chenega Corporation•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

Senior Payloads Analyst Redstone Arsenal, AL Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level! Venturi, LLC A Chenega Company has an exciting career opportunity for a Senior Payloads Analyst who will support the Targets and Countermeasures program office by providing integrated technical and programmatic advice to Targets Program Manager(s) and Chief Engineer(s). Additionally, this Senior Analyst will provide technical support in monitoring and assessing the performance of MDA prime contractors and target providers to ensure their activities and products meet program requirements and facilitate planning, organizing, coordinating, and executing the target technical program activities.

Requirements

Master's degree and 12+ years working on payloads or countermeasures for DoD programs, OR a Bachelor's degree and 20+ years working on payloads or countermeasures for DoD programs.
Experience across multiple engineering disciplines.
Active DoD Secret clearance.
Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time
Ability to communicate technical information to the non-technical members of the program office to support the programmatic mission
Understanding of IR/RCS signatures of payloads and countermeasures
Experience with material properties and material property measurements
Knowledge of ADP threat systems and how those impact target designs
Understand MDA MDS flight test requirements and apply that understanding to the payload hardware development.
Technical proposal development and evaluation.
Can work independently and/or lead teams to analyze and resolve problems
Work in a dynamic environment and possess the flexibility to work multiple actions simultaneously and resolve time-sensitive issues
Strong spoken and written communication skills. Ability to brief at all levels.
Demonstrated capabilities and experience in missile systems, technical program planning, and test and execution.

Responsibilities

Serve as an expert on behalf of the Missile Defense Agency’s Directorate for Test (MDA/DT) Targets program office in support of the design and analysis of payloads and countermeasures
Provide oversight of payload and countermeasure requirements development
Provide independent assessment of prime contractor payload and countermeasure designs
Provide technical reviews and recommendations on all design and development plans to include prime contractor reports, analyses, procedures, etc.
Evaluate target instrumentation to include requirements, instrumentation layout, types of instrumentation, testing of instrumentation, etc.
Provide technical evaluation to the Targets program office in support of all program reviews: System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, Test Readiness Review, Failure Review Board, Manufacturing Review Board, Product Acceptance Review, System Pedigree Review, Total Program Review, Design/Requirements/Signatures/Test Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), etc.
Support requests from MDA organizations outside of the Targets program office by providing technical responses to information requests and coordinating TIMs
Support DTTE Technical Team requests for design information such as CAD drawings, materials, hardware for signature testing in support of characterization and optical/RF model development.
Support the cost analysis team with technical evaluation for accurate costs estimate for PM.
Support program scheduler to meet program delivery deadlines and keep PM advised.
Perform other duties as assigned.