Leads the Mission Delta 31 team supporting daily operations and sustainment of the GPS/PNT system. Provides technical direction, resolves enterprise-level engineering issues, manages staff and project tasks, tracks technical baseline updates, and ensures contractual and quality requirements are met. Collaborates with government personnel, SE&I leadership, system developers, external organizations, and prime contractors while delivering technical documentation and engineering support.
SAIC is seeking an experienced engineer to join the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Enterprise Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) team in Colorado Springs, Colorado. SE&I provides engineering, integration, technical analysis, and subject matter expertise support to the US Space Force and Department of Defense (DoD) agencies.
This position is the lead of our Mission Delta (MD) 31 team. MD 31 is the government organization responsible for daily operations and sustainment of the PNT system. The MD 31 lead is responsible for the overall performance of the PNT SE&I Mission Delta division by leading the staff and managing projects across the team.
As a member of our PNT SE&I team, you’ll work in a fast-paced environment with government personnel and system developers to ensure that Global Positioning System (GPS) remains the gold standard for positioning, navigation, and timing. A successful candidate will collaborate and communicate with the SE&I leadership team to ensure processes and products are delivered with quality and professionalism.
Major duties of this position include:
- Providing technical leadership and direction to meet customer, program, and quality requirements.
- Maintaining cognizance of relevant technical issues and concerns and provide recommendations.
- Coordinating and leading resolution of enterprise level technical issues, engage with appropriate SE&I team, document resolution and ensure technical baseline updates and/or corrections are tracked and accomplished.
- Managing staff and tasks to meet contractual obligations and provide exceptional engineering support to the USG customer.
- Collaborating with the government team, government leads, external organizations, and prime contractors.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics or equivalent technical discipline and fourteen (14) years of systems integration and systems engineering related or equivalent experience.
- Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI.
- Experience serving as a team, project or program manager on performance-based contracts for the U.S. Government.
- Experience in system operations.
- Demonstrated understanding of System Engineering practices, policies, and techniques.
- Demonstrated experience working with or for the government.
- Demonstrated experience writing and delivering technical and professional documents.
Desired:
- GPS/PNT experience.
- Active TS/SCI clearance.
- Graduate or Doctoral degree in math, science, or engineering.
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