System Dynamics Specialist

KBR • Beavercreek Township, OH

4d • $60 - $74

About The Position

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. KBR, is currently recruiting a System Dynamics Specialist to join our team at Beavercreek, OH to support our customer, Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in their graduate education program.

Requirements

• Detailed-oriented with excellent technical, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Experience developing curriculum, course management, Canvas learning management system.
• Earned doctoral degree in Systems Dynamics, Systems Engineering, or related fields.
• At least ten (10) years’ related work experience is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in teaching Systems Dynamics and guiding research in a military graduate education environment.

Responsibilities

• Reviews and oversees course designs to ensure alignment for the series of courses for System Dynamics graduate education.
• Develop assignments and testing instruments to teach and assess student knowledge in these domain areas.
• Provide feedback to students on their learning and assessments.
• Recommend program changes to align with DoD and Air Force educational needs.
• Assist the government in acquiring new solutions in the Systems Dynamics domains by writing technical requirements, user stories, interoperability exchanges, acquisition plans and schedules, test plans, and test data needed to fully realize intelligence modernization.
• Guide students, perform analysis and experimental work through STELLA modeling to understand and analyze complex, dynamic systems in development and acquisition.
• Define the architecture, workflow, feedback loops, causal relationships within a system to understand systems’ behaviors over time.
• Investigate existing deployed systems for potential upgrades or more intensive system dynamics review.
• Conduct mission, task, and function analyses of military systems at a level of detail suitable for alternative design decisions.
• Provide user engagement strategies, collated results from user engagements, and requirements derived from user experiences.
• Conduct system analysis using system dynamics models, fault trees, event trees, root-cause analyses, and other appropriate system analysis tools.

Benefits

• KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include a 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule.
• We support career advancement through professional training and development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees