Senior Mission Engineer
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Job Description
The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nations space programs solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space delivering innovative solutions that span satellite launch ground and cyber systems for defense civil and commercial customers. When you join our team youll be part of a special collection of problem solvers thought leaders and innovators. Join us and take your place in space.
The Enterprise Effects Division (EED) drives integration of Aerospaces strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. The division leverages a broad array of engineering disciplines against a dynamic portfolio of programs customers and national challenges. EED spans the capability lifecycle from concept and architecture design to performance assessment to application of space and spaceenabled capabilities.
The Mission Engineering Department provides technical expertise and leadership in mission engineering methods processes and tools to a broad range of customers including National Security Space (NSS) and other defense programs NASA NOAA NNSA and others. Members of the Mission Engineering Department evaluate and assess customer missionintegration needs and/or challenges develop endtoend mission threads and provide timely advice make recommendations to enterprise leaders on risks issues and gaps and develop recommended solutions to enable desired mission outcomes. The Mission Engineering Department applies the missionengineering tradecraft to build and analyze endtoend effectschains.
Senior Engineering Specialists typically serve as senior technical authority consultant primary investigator or team leader on one or more projects. They lead or organize interfaces between customers and Aerospace technical and management staff coordinate largescale technical efforts across program/project lines mentor and serve as role models for junior staff.
The Mission Engineering Department and the Systems Engineering & Launch Division (SELD) are seeking a motivated Senior Engineering Specialist to lead Aerospaces contributions to the Enterprise Portfolio Manager charged with the Mission Integration/Warfighter Support (MIWS) Capability Area within the customers Systems Engineering Directorate. The MIWS Enterprise Integration Lead (Senior Engineering Specialist Enterprise Systems Engineering) contributes to customer and Aerospace activities for endtoend architecture engineering analysis and crossenterprise integration of advancement and oversight activities aligned to improved multiint capabilities and capacities for both Intelligence Community and Department of Defense needs and expectations.
Work Model
This is an onsite position based in Chantilly VA
What Youll Be Doing
Providing daytoday situational awareness of issues and efforts across the MIWS customer portfolio and offering advice and counsel as a trusted directsupport advisor to that designated customer lead.
Assisting the customer to shape and enable this comprehensive portfolio of effort underway in prioritization planning oversight and of advancement and capability development activities.
Developing and delivering enterpriselevel assessments against MIWS activities and offering specific plans of action or mitigation against emerging issues directly to the MIWS customer
Lead Aerospaces on endtoend capability delivery:
Providing problem framing and oversight to analytic studies aligned to MIWS emerging questions or efforts;
Enabling the development and maturation of architectural options and recommendations to resolve MIWS complex set of challenges;
Develop and manage the enterprise engineering tasks necessary to for aligned lifecycle oversight and readiness activities capability adoption and operational integration efforts.
Lead the MIWS collaboration across other SED customer portfolios EPM other EILs and office managers with their respective Aerospace integration leads to provide broader awareness and synchronization of policy system engineering architecting and analysis efforts within the Aerospaces Systems Engineering Directorate.
Identify and manage resource identification and of Aerospace personnel in support of MIWS; identify and lead the technical contributors focused on delivery impact.
What You Need to be Successful
Minimum Requirements Senior Engineering Specialist Enterprise Systems Engineering:
You must hold a Bachelors degree in a technical field or a Bachelors degree and equivalent technical experience
Minimum 12 or more years of increasingly responsible professional engineering/scientific experience.
Relevant technical programmatic policy strategy development and operational domain experience.
Experience within multidisciplinary systems engineering and/or program management environments including the ability to work across architectural engineering and analytic domains and across all phases of development design and system acquisition.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with senior customer leadership and successfully function within mixed teams comprised of senior government FFRDC and SETA personnel.
Willing to travel occasionally to work location or customer site/domestically/internationally approx. of the time.
This position requires a TS/SCI security clearance and polygraph which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is to obtain a security clearance.
How You Can Stand Out
It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:
An advanced degree in an appropriate technical discipline.
Experience with ModelBased Systems Engineering concepts methods and practices.
Experience across multiple customer offices and agencies spanning both the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense Operations
Knowledge of Aerospace engineering reachback capabilities and experience with identifying tasks and managing engineering reachback support.
Understanding of military and operational concepts
Supported military command and control efforts and related policy initiatives
Previous experience working with and executing military operations
Prior management and leadership experience
Leadership Competencies
Our leadership philosophy is simple: every employee regardless of level and role can demonstrate leadership. At Aerospace our commitment is our people. To cultivate our talent and ensure that we have a strong pipeline of future leaders we want individuals who:
- Operate Strategically
- Lead Change
- Engage with Impact
- Foster Innovation
- Deliver Results
Ways We Reward Our Employees
During your interview process our team will provide details of our industryleading benefits.
Benefits vary and are applicable based on Job Type. A few highlights include:
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans
- Paid holidays sick time and vacation
- Standard and alternate work schedules including telework options
- 401(k) Plan Employees receive a total companypaid benefit of 8 10 or 12 of eligible compensation based on years of service and matching contributions; employees are immediately eligible and vested in the plan upon hire
- Flexible spending accounts
- Variable pay program for exceptional contributions
- Relocation assistance
- Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career
- Education assistance programs
- An inclusive work environment built on teamwork flexibility and respect
We are all unique from various backgrounds and all walks of life yet one thing bonds all of us to each otherthe belief that we can make a difference. This core belief empowers us to do our best work at The Aerospace Corporation.
Equal Opportunity Commitment
The Aerospace Corporation is an equalopportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race age sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression colorreligiongeneticinformation marital status ancestry national origin protected veteran status physical disability medical condition mental disability or disability status and any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. If youre an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran who needs assistance using our online job search and application tools or need reasonable accommodation to complete the job application process please contact us by phone at 310.336.5432 or by emailat .You can also reviewKnow Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegalas well as thePay Transparency Policy Statement.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
