Flight Operations Spacecraft Systems Engineer - Military veterans preferred

• Provide launch and initialization, and mission readiness subject matter expertise (SME) to operations and engineering including readiness for launch, spacecraft initialization, and transition to mission. 

• Provide support to launch processing requirements, planning, and execution.

• Oversee all operations procedures and process changes along leading up to Operational Readiness Demonstrations (ORD), and other launch related milestones.

• Perform risk assessments for the MOD commanders for each L&I milestone.

•  Work with government Contracting Officer’s Technical Representatives (COTR) and Contracting Officer (CO) to provide technical and programmatic direction on multiple contracts in support of a US Government customer.

• Develop and implement acquisition strategies for future contracts

• Identify and evaluate alternative contract implementation strategies

• Develop budget profiles, risk, and opportunities for various strategies

• Develop annual IPBS budget builds

• Effectively communicate advantages and disadvantages of various strategies

• Draft and coordinate Statement of Work, Evaluation Criteria, and other portions of Requests for Proposal (RFP)

• Participate in MOD source selection activities for O&M contracts

• Facilitate communications to/from/across multiple contractor teams

• Evaluate contractor proposals for technical, cost, and schedule content

• Develop Statements of Work (SOW) for contract modifications and new contracts

• Plan and evaluate budget recommendations for contract execution to include researching, drafting and supporting Unfunded Requirements and the transition of the UFR to contract as required.

• Assist in the day-to-day tactical prioritization of contractor tasks

• Provide written and verbal evaluations of contractor performance

• Identify and recommend courses of actions to improve support and operations across multiple locations and organizations

•  Anomaly Coordination/Support – Provide anomaly manager training, sit on certification boards, and maintain historical anomaly files/summaries, provide experience to anomaly resolution and decision making.

• Maintain close communications with the program acquisition office and customer engineering organizations providing recommendations on risk level of spacecraft activities.

• Provide program technical and contract oversight support to the Flight Operations Division (FOD) leadership across its systems.

• Oversee day to day execution of operations and processes to ensure proper attention to health, safety, and effective use of national resources.

• Perform subject matter expertise advisory services to the US Government regarding strategy, operations, and management of national programs.

• Evaluate Concepts of Operations (CONOPs), Operating Instructions, and other document to ensure consistency with contract and Senior Leadership direction.

TYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.

Clearance required to start: TS/SCI with Polygraph

·       Bachelor’s Degree in STEM field is dictated by the contract

• Project Management Professional certification or DAWIA COTR certification

• 4 Years’ Experience in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and/or/ closing DoD or Intelligence Community projects or Programs

• Strong spacecraft vehicle, payload, and ground systems engineering background

• Experience in developing and executing acquisition strategies for future contracts including Statement of Work, Evaluation Criteria, and other portions of Requests for Proposal (RFP)

• SIGINT systems engineering background and significant space and ground domain knowledge in customer mission technical capabilities and performance.

• Technical familiarity with SIGINT system’s payloads and subsystems.

• Familiarity with emerging technologies as related to spacecraft

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and build consensus across government, FFRDC, and contractor colleagues on operations and programmatic issues spanning technical, policy, cultural, and financial arenas

• Demonstrated organizational skills; capable of initiating activities, developing execution plans, and executing schedule

• Demonstrated ability to react in a fast paced environment to a variety of tasks; sometimes out of primary domain of responsibility

• Demonstrated ability to work well both independently and as part of a dynamic team