Program Management Acquisition Support SME

Position:Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) Program Management & Acquisition Support SME

The candidate will work in a small highly empowered team located in Albuquerque NM (vicinity of Kirtland AFB NM). Travel potential up to 30 of time within the continental United States.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engineering responsibilities span technology domains including spacerated hardware software sensors and processors in an extremely fastpaced responsive development environment.
• Provide indepth background on satellite vehicle bus and/or subsystems to improve program office insight into stateofthe art commercial and legacy mission systems and C2 requirements and capabilities.
• Serve as program advisory lead for timecritical technical projects test projects and tasks requiring technical expertise.
• Apply advanced principles theories and concepts for classified systems while communicating complex results with management and executive leadership.
• Assist acquisition planning market research and drafting technical requirements and documents.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to verify program needs are identified to meet project goals.
• Assess the technical sufficiency cost quality and timely delivery of deliverables.
• Interface with engineers to provide technical advice and assist with problem resolution as needed.
• Support management and of programs consisting of multiple projects to ensure overall program is coordinated and accomplished with the best available resources.
• Draft review and edit final program reports documents and briefings.
• Support acquisition planning and development of documents required for systems acquisition.
• Coordinate with external agencies to include operational units higher headquarters Combatant Command (COCOM) staffs other acquisition activities and research and development functions.
• Support and advise acquisition and program management functions advise government management on design challenges operational delivery and integration and support system program reviews.
• Initiate supervise and/or develop requirements from a projects inception to conclusion for complex programs.
• Provide strategic advice technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff.
• Provide analyses evaluation and recommendations for improvements optimization development and/or maintenance efforts for mission critical challenges/issues.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Active TOP SECRET clearance with Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (SCI) and special access program (SAP) eligibility (no less than 2 years total SAP and/or SCI environment experience with 1year total within last 5 years) and willingness to submit to a CounterIntelligence polygraph. Candidate must maintain a TS/SCI clearance as a condition of employment.
• Relevant MA/MS/ME engineering degree. Professional Engineering license desired but not required.
• Minimum of ten 10 years of DoD/IC or relevant industry work experience.
• Direct experience with development and fielding satellite systems understanding of operational environment and corresponding mission user needs and knowledge of space system engineering development and manufacturing.
• Experience in DoD program management including program development and transition. Experience with Integrated Master Schedules Statement of Work and risk management.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• System Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) to Government program office
  
• Experience with rapid prototyping
• Experience with integrated air space and cyberspace capabilities. Experience developing deploying and maintaining ground mission planning architecture and software
• Experience with ACAT I/II level acquisition programs
• Experience using multivariable optimization in mission planning software systems