Systems Engineer – Sustainment Engineering

GD Information Technology • Huntsville, AL

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Engineer Senior and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. Meaningful work and Personal Impact GDIT is seeking a Systems Integration Engineer to provide sustaining engineering and product lifecycle management support for multiple Force Protection System (FPS) Family of Systems (FOS) to the IBD-SS II program. The successful candidate will oversee the planning, design, and implementation of system engineering projects. The ability to work hand in hand with test engineers and technical writers in developing engineering test plans. The ideal candidate will have a commanding knowledge of engineering processes, standards and workflows and will work closely with the Configuration Manager to ensure all system’s product baselines are maintained.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science (5+ years of related experience will include years of experience in lieu of degree)
• 5 years of systems engineering or relevant experience
• Security clearance level: Active Secret clearance
• Current US Passport

Nice To Haves

• Product Data Management / Product Lifecyle Management (PDM PLM) Tool experience desired
• Superior technical writing skills, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Field Bulletins, Maintenance plan
• Experience with DoD Systems, Engineering requirements and DoD contracts
• Experience conducting Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products

Responsibilities

• Review existing Urgent Capability Acquisition (UCA) programs and provide solutions to issues usually related to sustainment engineering, including investigating root causes of errors or failures, identifying alternatives for end-of-life components, and creating and maintaining documentation
• Assist in the analysis of failed products to improve sustainment support through viable solutions
• Responsible for enabling day-to-day execution of systems integration and test flow, managing work orders, and driving discrepancy findings into actionable items and system improvements
• Develop Engineering BOMs from Technical Data Packages
• Lead Engineering Review Boards for engineering change requests and prepare documents for CCB
• Brief Engineering Change Proposals to CCB
• Conduct briefs of engineering efforts at weekly Integrated Product Team meetings
• Provide guidance and training to junior engineers
• Assist in the development of engineering test plans and reports
• Collaborate with IBD-SS team members from engineering, training, logistics, and operational support as well as government customers and representatives to facilitate operational improvements and provide reach-back support to perform troubleshooting, maintenance, documentation distribution, sparing, and health reports
• Address obsolescence issues and concerns working in conjunction with the IBD-SS logistics team
• Interface with other engineers, SMEs, and technicians to solve equipment malfunctions and design flaws
• Manage the full life cycle of mission systems with a focus on sustainment engineering to support existing systems by researching, reviewing design, assisting procurement, cataloging, installing, and maintaining of FP Systems.
• Complete other duties and tasks assigned related to the mission

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401K with company match
• competitive pay
• paid time off
• full flex work weeks where possible
• variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• short and long-term disability benefits
• life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior