• Transition Engineer

    SAIC (Chantilly, VA)


    Description

    **DESCRIPTION:** SAIC has an opportunity for a Transition Engineer to guide, and provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory services for a government customer in **Chantilly, VA** . The successful candidate will:

    • Assist the government oversee, guide, and manage technical efforts for transition activities delivering vital mission operations capabilities. Efforts provide enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering and project management services.

    • Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate.

    • Work with government managers to plan, organize, execute, and track efforts.

    • Maintain awareness of government’s evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process, resource effectiveness, or efficiency.

    • Provide technical support to government contacts.

    • Identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for transition activities.

    • Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors; across the enterprise, to ensure success of transition activities.

    • Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership.

    Qualifications

    QUALIFICATIONS

    Required:

    • Must be US Citizen

    • Possess Active TS/SCI with current polygraph

    • Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master’s Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience

    • Demonstrated success performing project management and systems engineering tasks, delivering mission capabilities

    + Knowledge of SIGINT space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions

    + Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission and be familiar with related control gates and associated documentation

    + Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, systems analysis, interface control documentation, technical specification review, integration and testing; validation and verification

    + Self-starter, able to proactively address customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics

    + Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment, polished communicator (written/verbal)

    + Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder

    + Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project

    Desired Qualifications:

    + Knowledge of satellite constellations, spacecraft orbit, tasking process, and ground station characteristics

    + Knowledge of SIGINT TCPED process

    + Familiar with MBSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies

    REQNUMBER: 2511327

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