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SAIC Chief Engineer in EL SEGUNDO, California
Description
SAIC is seeking a Chief Engineer to join our diverse Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) team in Colorado Springs, CO or El Segundo, CA. The qualified applicant will be named as a key personnel on SAIC’s PNT SE&I senior leadership team. The successful candidate will collaborate and communicate with the SE&I leadership team to ensure SE&I processes and products are delivered for all PNT systems engineering and integration engineering areas of responsibility.
The PNT SE&I Team provides Space Systems Command (SSC) specialized engineering, analysis, planning and execution in support of Global Positioning System (GPS) Programs of Record (PoRs) and the PNT Enterprise. This includes:
Develop operational and capabilities-based requirements and architectures
Manage PNT Enterprise Technical Baseline in accordance with documented process plan
System Engineering for PNT Enterprise and Space, Control and User Segments
Plan, execute and track Enterprise, Integrated System, Developmental and Cybersecurity Test, Evaluation and Verification
Develop Enterprise Roadmaps and Schedule Views for system and capability delivery
Manage GPS Enterprise and Space, Control and User Segment Risks
Support Sustainment of currently fielded GPS systems
Support Transition to Operations for future GPS systems
Major duties of the position include:
Provide innovative internal and external technical leadership, collaboration across all stakeholders, and effective communication to meet customer and program requirements
Maintain cognizance of relevant technical issues and concerns, elevate to SE&I and government leadership appropriately and provide resolution recommendations
Coordinate and lead the resolution of enterprise level technical issues; engage with appropriate government and SE&I teams, and ensure PoR and technical baseline updates and corrections are tracked and accomplished
Conduct development product technical assessments to ensure solutions are integrated and effectively meet customer needs prior to program delivery
Manage and review the SE&I team execution required to meet or exceed performance work statement (PWS) requirements for technical, schedule, cost, and quality performance; perform hiring, work management, and performance assessments
Support improvement and innovation for process execution, data and tool utilization, enterprise/system architecture updates and improvements
Identify opportunities to leverage corporate staff, teammates, processes or tools and ensure the proper collection of metrics to measure execution effectiveness
Qualifications
Requirements:
Previous experience working within PNT/GPS
Bachelors degree and 12+ years of engineering experience
Active Secret clearance
Demonstrated leadership skills in the Aerospace or DoD working across space, ground segment organizations to coordinate and identify system integration requirements that ensure end-to-end mission performance requirements are met
Experience serving as a team, project, or program manager on performance-based contracts for the U.S. Government, experience developing cost and schedule deliverables and managing to baseline costs and schedules to include the identification and management of risks, demonstrated experience working with Air Force/DoD customers in an acquisition environment, with space and/or ground systems
Experience writing and delivering documents and briefings, demonstrated interpersonal skills to enable working, interfacing, and interrelating with diverse personnel and dynamic teams
Desired:
Masters degree or MBA preferred
Active Top Secret Clearance
Change agent who looks at the art of the possible to bring new capability and architecture ideas enabling a system or enterprise evolution to meet current or upcoming threats, needs, and requirements
PNT/GPS mission and/or systems knowledge and experience
DoD or NRO programs space and ground systems engineering
Model-Based and/or Software engineering systems practices
Target salary range: $175,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2405214
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