Systems Engineer – Requirements & Verification

PGS Worldwide is seeking a Systems Engineer Requirements & Verification in Elkton Maryland for an approximately 15-month onsite contract-to-hire role supporting a leading aerospace & defense company. This position will support propulsion-system development through Critical Design Review (CDR) providing systems-engineering leadership across requirements verification technical risk and multidisciplinary program execution. The engineer will support the lead Systems Engineer and must be capable of assuming broader technical leadership responsibilities as needed.

Required Skills

• Bachelors degree in Systems Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering or a related STEM discipline.
• 8 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Experience performing systems engineering activities across requirements design integration and/or test.
• Strong experience developing and managing clear testable system requirements.
• Experience establishing and maintaining requirements traceability from stakeholder needs through design and verification.
• Experience with requirements decomposition across systems subsystems and engineering disciplines.
• Experience performing requirements change and impact analysis.
• Experience supporting or leading formal technical reviews such as SRR PDR and CDR.
• Experience developing verification and validation plans.
• Ability to map requirements to verification methods including test analysis inspection and demonstration.
• Experience leading or supporting formal Risk Review Boards.
• Experience with program risk and opportunity management.
• Experience with requirements-management tools such as DOORS Jama JIRA or comparable platforms.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary engineering teams to resolve requirements and design issues.
• Strong systems-thinking analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate technical information effectively with engineering teams program leadership customers and other stakeholders.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting U.S. Air Force Navy strategic deterrence or related defense programs.
• Experience with solid rocket motors propulsion systems energetic systems or related technologies.
• Experience with legacy-system redesign and existing requirements baselines.
• Hands-on manufacturing experience.
• Familiarity with DoD contracting processes.
• Experience developing subsystem-level verification and validation plans.
• Experience developing test requirements and procedures and reviewing test data.
• Experience with Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and/or Process FMEA.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and SysML.
• Experience with Cameo/MagicDraw Rhapsody or comparable MBSE tools.
• Experience integrating MBSE models with requirements-management tools such as DOORS.
• Experience with Siemens Teamcenter or comparable PLM/configuration-management systems.
• Experience coordinating Contract Data Requirements Lists (CDRLs) and other contract deliverables.

What Youll Do

• Provide technical leadership and coordination across engineering disciplines program management and external stakeholders.
• Support development of an integrated propulsion-system solution through major program milestones.
• Develop and maintain requirements specifications interface-control documents V&V matrices risk registers and verification reports.
• Define and maintain requirements-decomposition strategies across subsystems and engineering disciplines.
• Perform requirements change-impact analysis based on configuration changes and contractual changes.
• Lead requirements and technical reviews supporting PDR and CDR.
• Evaluate requirements for completeness consistency feasibility traceability and testability.
• Lead technical Risk and Opportunity meetings.
• Develop verification plans and assign verification methods and responsible owners.
• Support development of work breakdown structures and technical schedules.
• Coordinate requirements design integration verification and technical-risk activities across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Support the lead Systems Engineer and assume broader systems-engineering leadership responsibilities when required.
• Build consensus among technical teams and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Work Schedule / Shift

• First shift approximately 8:00 AM5:00 PM.
• 9/80 work schedule.
• Full-time onsite in Elkton Maryland.
• No travel expected.
• Telework is not available.

Pay

• $68.82 per hour.
• Target experience level: 815 years.

Job ID: 1865

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