Senior Satellite Ground Systems Engineer (Top Secret)

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Senior Satellite Ground Systems Engineer (Top Secret)

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Satellite Ground System Sr. Systems Engineer

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

KBR is searching for a highly skilled Senior Systems Engineer (Sr. SE) to support development of a first-of-kind satellite command and control system for the Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO). The Sr. SE is assigned responsibility, accountability, and authority to execute and optimize processes governing the systems engineering scope necessary for successful product delivery. Duties include systems engineering and acquisition process implementation and execution. The Sr. SE may be responsible for leading both multi-discipline and systems engineering teams in execution of these duties. The Sr. SE will report to the Chief Systems Engineer, with potential matrix to functional branches as part of systems engineering integration team (SEIT) duties.

A successful candidate should be a leader and problem solver with a proven ability to deliver superior results as part of a high performing team in a high-profile, fast-paced environment. The candidate will apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts for highly classified systems, while also effectively communicating complex results with management and executive leadership.

In this position, you will provide System Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) to the Space RCO at Kirtland AFB, NM or Colorado Springs, CO. The Space RCO is one of three US Space Force acquisition organization and is the one specializing in delivering first-of systems to fill quick-turn needs to deliver operational capability to the USSF. For each project, Space RCO sets up small, agile and empowered teams, to include program manager, technical specialists, contracting, finance, security, and they use right acquisition strategies to set the effort up for success. You will work in one of these small, highly empowered teams where every team member is directly responsible for the success of the program.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assuring specifications and requirements are developed, established, decomposed, allocated, executed and maintained as part of a systematic verification program, consistent with the program requirements baseline.
• Execution and oversight of ongoing risk mitigation measures by various government stakeholders and contractors.
• Work internal to the program office and inter-divisional work needs for the program.

• Develop and implement necessary metrics and standards for judging successful systems engineering process execution inclusive of contractor, subcontracting, and procurement systems execution for all critical systems engineering, acquisition and development related scope.
• Generate and execute program scope in a systems engineering management plan (SEMP) together with program and higher command directives.
• Be familiar with documenting, tracking, and periodically reporting to program management and the Government compliance offices performance against standards, compliance against metrics, deviations, and corrective actions.
• Be familiar with engineering resource planning, quality improvement initiatives, process improvement initiatives and managing against a baselined plan. 
• Maintain proficiency identifying, creating, evaluating and maintaining technical baseline records. Understand how to integrate work duties across cost, technical, schedule and risk spectrum to deliver balanced success. 
• Ensures completion of tasks within estimated time frames and budget constraints.
• Ensures the quality of the program, project, or task deliverables meet or exceed standards or metrics and assesses such deliverables to ensure that the final deliverables will meet the warfighting purpose for which they are intended.
• Coordinates with multiple partners/agencies to ensure system engineering communities support delivery milestones.
• Provides strategic advice, technical guidanc