Chief Engineer

Job Description

Description

PNT SE&I provides engineering, integration, technical analysis, and subject matter expertise (SME) support to the US Space Force. As a member of our PNT SE&I Team, you’ll work in a fast-paced environment with Government personnel and systems engineers to manage the financial planning, tracking, and reporting as well as supporting business processes and operations.

SAIC is seeking a Chief Engineer to join the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) Team.  A successful candidate will support the team with a focus on technical leadership, including coordinating and leading resolution of enterprise level technical issues, conducting product technical assessments, mentoring junior technical staff, and ensuring technical baseline updates and corrections are tracked and accomplished.

Major duties of this position include:

Duties:

• Provide technical leadership and direction in order to meet customer, program, and quality requirements
• Maintain cognizance of relevant technical issues and concerns and provide recommendations
• Coordinate and lead the 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
• Conduct product technical assessments to ensure solutions are integrated and effectively meet customer needs prior to delivery
• Management and review of program execution required to meet or exceed performance work statement (PWS) requirements for technical, schedule, cost, and quality performance; perform hiring, supervision, and performance assessments
• Support process improvement and innovation, adapt proven and effective practices to identify impediments and/or mitigate risks to effective program execution, ensure effective communication and collaboration across the team
• Identify opportunities to leverage corporate staff, processes or tools and ensure the proper collection of metrics to measure execution effectiveness

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Master’s Degree with 12+ Years of engineering experience
• Active Secret Clearance with ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI 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
• Global Positioning System mission and systems knowledge and experience

Desired:

• DoD or NRO programs space and ground systems engineering
• Model-Based and/or Software engineering systems practices
• Agile execution methods and tools

Overview

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.