Overview

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Credence has an immediate need for a Systems Integration Engineer at the senior level who will be primarily responsible for supporting the B-52 Stratofortress Division (AFLCMC WBD) at Tinker AFB, OK.

The B-52 Stratofortress division protects our nation by modernizing and sustaining the B-52 fleet and ensuring continued AF power projection. With a 60-year history as the backbone of the nation’s nuclear deterrence operations, the current fleet of 76 B-52H aircraft is capable of deploying the widest array of weapons in the U.S. inventory and supports multiple combatant command operations.  This division provides world-class expertise and technical services, ensuring the operational safety, suitability, and effectiveness of war-winning capabilities. It also maintains the airworthiness of the B-52 Stratofortress throughout its projected service life, which extends to 2050.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the duties listed below:

• Independently accomplish systems engineering analysis on a broad range of aeronautical systems and capability planning to drive timely and cost-effective materiel solutions for existing F/B programs and future programs, including Next Generation Bomber and 2030 Air Dominance programs, with MAJCOM, center, AFRL, and industry partners from concept identification to system fielding, ensuring alignment with cross-cutting capabilities across the aeronautical enterprise.
• Institute a collaborative process bridging warfighter-identified capability requirements to acquisition planning for materiel solutions, including researching program information, providing systems engineering insight, conducting analyses, and preparing briefings.
• Independently manage interfaces and processes with development planning, technology, intelligence, acquisition, sustainment, and user communities.
• Apply knowledge and experience across enterprise activities spanning requirements, acquisition, and sustainment, including doctrine, requirements identification and definition, horizontally integrated acquisition, sustainment and investment strategies, technology integration, intelligence integration, and sustainment strategy development.
• Support development of strategies for cross-cutting capability requirements and assist with initiating, writing, reviewing, developing, and implementing documentation activities, including TEMPs, SEPs, RFPs, SOOs, contracting items, data items, test plans, LCMPs, LCSPs, and Pre-MS A and Pre-MS B documentation.
• Support identification, assessment, and analysis of future capability solution sets required to support capability requirements, including support for program reviews, IBRs, and systems engineering initiatives related to NDI, COTS items, FAA-certified items, and commercial practices.
• Assist in managing capability and systems engineering studies involving multiple divisions.
• Assist in communicating systems engineering solutions, risk analysis, and future solutions within AFLCMC, MAJCOMs, other enterprises, and the Air Staff.
• Assist in transitioning programs into, and terminating programs out of, the F/B Directorate for field use to enhance warfighter capabilities.
• Assist in planning across Family of Systems (FoS) and Systems of Systems (SoS) engineering, particularly in the development of capability management strategies.
• Assist in establishing a capability architect function within each Division to ensure integrated architectures are developed and used as a standard vehicle for cross-enterprise comparison, analysis, and integration for the F/B Directorate.
• Assist in developing, improving, and administering technology processes, including applied technology councils, Small Business Innovative Research initiatives, and other efforts to identify, assess, and submit technology proposals.
• Review planning documents, including MNS, ORD, ICD, CDD, and CPD, for realistic industrial base execution; promote the use of MS&A throughout the acquisition life cycle and support common-use MS&A tools for Government and industry.
• Assist in integrating intelligence information and infrastructure to support cross-enterprise capabilities planning and system acquisition.
• Provide recommended solution sets for capabilities integration planning; organize briefings and engineering discussions; support collaboration with senior functional leads; manage higher headquarters and internal tasks; and coordinate program control functions, reporting, baseline and schedule management, business process integration, and special projects.
• Apply system integration engineering knowledge to coordinate expertise and skills in support of integrating program technical components and elements to ensure they function together as a system.
• Support review and evaluation of military airworthiness certification documentation, coordinate consensus across engineering disciplines, and provide detailed airworthiness activity status to engineering management.
• Provide in-depth analysis of DoD and USAF policies and processes for USAF and military airworthiness certification, systems engineering, and sustainment against accepted industry or military standards for NDI aircraft; identify gaps and provide recommendations.
• Assist with coordination of engineering efforts to review and evaluate planning for test activities similar to First Article Test (FAT), including developing engineering consensus and providing detailed test status to engineering management.
• Support engineering efforts including FCA/PCA, aircraft and simulator certifications, technical evaluation of contractor efforts, environmental and hazardous material management, system safety, risk management, deficiency report resolution, mission planning system integration, and periodic geospatial data updates.
• Apply system integration engineering analyses to support development of SEPs, an OSS&E baseline, and an engineering support plan for sustainment activities.
• Assist with management and resolution of technical projects, risks, and mitigation plans; coordinate root cause investigations with federal agencies and weapon system contractors; support technical meetings with industry and program stakeholders; and support acquisition program management of full life cycle requirements, subsystems, and equipment.

Requirements

Education, Requirements and Qualifications:

• Must have an active or current Secret security clearance (or higher), verifiable in the Defense Information System for Security (DISS).
• Must have knowledge of airworthiness, diagnostics, electrical, and field implementation actions in accordance with MIL-HDBK-516C.
• Must have an ABET accredited Master’s or Doctorate Degree in a related field and ten (10) years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, five (5) years of which must be in the DoD;
• OR must have an ABET accredited bachelor’s degree in a related field and twelve (12) years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, five (5) years of which must be in the DoD;
• For engineering positions, must have successfully completed an undergraduate degree with a major in engineering from a college or university with an ABET-accredited engineering program for the degree requirements of the position, such as electrical, mechanical, or aerospace engineering. Degrees in engineering technology are not considered qualifying for these positions.
• For computer science positions, it is recommended that the candidate have successfully completed an undergraduate or graduate degree with a major in computer science from a college or university with an ABET-accredited computer science program.
• For engineering and computer science positions, the degree must have been received in the year of, or any year after, the original date of accreditation.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development

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