Systems Engineer III

Bay Systems Consulting, Inc.•Colorado Springs, CO

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Systems Engineer (Sustainment) supports the SE&I Operations and Sustainment Lead and contributes to systems engineering and integration for SSC/PNT Enterprise control segment capabilities. The role works across operational space and ground systems, hardware and software, and related organizations to ensure requirements and interfaces are consistent and valid across operations and the enterprise. The engineer supports the customer throughout the system lifecycle by maintaining technical, schedule, cost, and risk data; assessing proposed changes and their effects on operational requirements, capabilities, and sustainability; and developing risk mitigation options. The role also supports integrating activities from pre-contractual and requirements-development phases through operations and sustainment, and produces briefings, plans, papers, visualizations, and other decision-support documentation. The position collaborates with prime and support contractors, government personnel, and U.S. Air Force and Space Force members. It participates in Integrated Product Teams, Product Support Manager meetings, and other programmatic and sustainment activities. The position is located at Peterson SFB and requires an active Secret clearance; the role description also states the candidate must be able to obtain TS/SCI.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with 9+ years of relevant experience.
Active Secret security clearance.
Demonstrated experience working with Air Force, Space Force, or DoW customers in an operations and sustainment environment, including Space Systems, especially at SSC.
Experience writing and delivering technical documents, analysis, and briefings.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Highly organized and able to prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously.
Strong interpersonal skills to work, interface, and communicate with diverse personnel and dynamic teams.
Motivated self-starter who works well in a diverse team environment.
Able to obtain TS/SCI clearance.

Nice To Haves

GPS and/or USSF experience.
Active Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

Directly support the SE&I Operations and Sustainment Lead.
Ensure effective requirements integration across operational space and ground, hardware and software, and other system and organizational aspects for control segment capabilities.
Interact with the prime contractor and government leads to ensure system requirements and interfaces are consistent and valid across operations and the enterprise.
Understand multiple system requirements and capability baselines, and produce visualization products showing capability insertion activities for individual system baselines.
Support the customer in defining, capturing, and maintaining technical, schedule, cost, and risk data throughout the system lifecycle.
Develop risk mitigation courses of action and assess the impacts of risks and proposed changes.
Identify derived requirements from government specifications and interface control documents, and help translate requirements into hardware and software sustainment and development tasks.
Develop, document, execute, integrate, and evolve systems engineering processes to enable SSC/PNT Enterprise systems engineering and integration efforts.
Assess proposed Enterprise baseline changes for impacts to operational system requirements and capabilities, and future sustainability.
Support lifecycle integration activities, including pre-contractual work, requirements development, and operations and sustainment capabilities.
Develop operations and sustainment briefings, plans, papers, and other documentation to support SSC/PNT Enterprise decision making.
Collaborate with prime contractors, other support contractors, government civilians, and U.S. Air Force and Space Force members.
Participate in Integrated Product Teams, Product Support Manager meetings, and other programmatic and sustainment activities.