Senior Engineer - MDA Engineering Management

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Engineer for the MDA Engineering Management group to join our team! In this role you will get to provide technical engineering support to MDA's Director for Engineering (MDA/DE) Engineering Management (MDA/DER). MDA/DER integrates all the functions required to manage the MDA engineering enterprise, to include infrastructure and program controls; technical analyses for personnel and business operations; financial planning; and developing and coordinating MDA/DE policies and procedures.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Provide technical engineering advice to the government customer for the management of engineering personnel including recruitments, training and career development, performance management, and awards.

• Provide technical engineering support to MDA/DE and engineering contracts, task orders, and inter-agency support agreements.

• Conduct annual reviews of engineering functional workforce to determine labor category and skill set requirements. Perform gap analyses and provide analysis results.

• Recommend resource re-allocation, education, and strategic plans to close gaps for engineering functions, processes, and reviews.

• Assist with internal controls and property management.

• Prepare, staff, and brief mandatory Inter/Intra-Agency Acquisition Review (IAR), Manager’s Internal Controls Program (MICP), and property accountability briefings.  This includes assessing compliance with DoD requirements and report discrepancies for Agency programs.

• Prepare and coordinate meeting-related products including technical assessments and reports, white papers, briefing materials, courses of action, contingency plans, implementation plans, technical concurrence memoranda, decision memoranda, audit responses, action item file responses, after-action reports, executive summaries, meeting summaries, action tracking, and issue sheet comments.

• Participate in formal tasking and staffing processes as an action officer.  This includes managing staffing process controls to ensure deadlines are met.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• 12+ years' experience and a Master's degree in a STEM field.  

• Active Secret clearance.

• Experience with US government budgeting and the Program Objective Memorandum process.

• Experience using and maintaining large databases and large spreadsheets.

• Development and delivery of complex engineering programs.

• Strong written/oral communication and organizational skills and the ability to communicate technical information to senior leadership.

• Excellent organizational skills. 

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• MDA experience.

• Experience with MDA's Program Resource Internet Database Environment (PRIDE) and/or the Manager’s Internal Controls Program (MICP).

• Familiarity with DoD weapon system engineering processes and standards.

• Experience with management of government and/or engineering personnel as well as government personnel business rules, procedures, and requirements.  

• Experience with engineering training and personnel development.

• Strong skills with Microsoft Excel, Project, Access and/or other similar software.

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Secret

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

Our Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our diverse, intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: 

$117,000.00 - $210,600.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP),