Position Title: Senior Systems Engineer Position Type: Full-time, Fully On-Site Location: MacDill, AFB, FL Clearance: Active Secret Travel: 25%
Description: Waypoint’s client is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support the U.S. Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (SOF AT&L) Program Executive Office for Maritime (PEO-M). PEO-M delivers the world’s most advanced combat diving equipment, surface systems, and undersea platforms to Naval Special Warfare operators. This role provides critical engineering expertise to the Dry Combat Submersible (DCS) program, ensuring performance, reliability, and modernization of mission-essential maritime systems.
Responsibilities:
In support of PEO-M's Dry Combat Submersible (DCS) program, provides significant, expert-level support to government counterparts regarding the adequacy and clarity of agency engineering and analysis processes based on daily application of the processes and agency reporting requirements
Complete advanced engineering demand tasks such as reviewing engineering change proposals, requests for waivers and deviations, and nonconforming materials
Apply advanced tools to document and analyze the results of critical, complex activities and tasks
Evaluate state-of-the-art scientific and environmental/engineering technologies and incorporate them into the planning, design, operation, maintenance, repair, and upgrade of applicable systems
Provide expert-level inputs for status briefings to leadership, outlining assigned programs, projects, problems, and recommended resolution
Direct and coordinate engineering and maintenance programs, and inform the development of criteria for specialized critical system design
Expertly adjust technical support to meet emergencies, change programs or production requirements within available resources and without sacrificing completeness and accuracy
Work with organizational managers, budget personnel, and engineering authorities to develop and gain approval for proposed projects.
Direct engineering sufficiency review of assigned programs and projects until turnover
Evaluate and recommend programs and development plans, utilizing a professional knowledge of multi-disciplinary engineering
Support contract modification and make technical recommendations for change order approval; support budget control directly supporting the engineering effort
Provide decision support inputs for approval of plans, specifications, cost estimates, design calculations, schedules, cost proposals, and engineering studies
Support technical evaluation elements of market surveys conducted in conjunction with assigned projects and programs
Plan, execute, and document surveillance of design, development, and production efforts on behalf of government counterparts, using performance indicators identified in applicable engineering surveillance processes
Analyze trends in performance indicators to assist government counterparts with managing agency-level performance indicators, recommending corrective action, establishing lessons learned, and influencing the improvement of processes
Plan and program to support improvement and modernization, advanced strategic planning, marketing, and technical symposia; support management of the organization's direct and reimbursable budget, and verification of test program funds
Required:
U.S. Citizenship
Active Secret clearance
DAWIA Practitioner (formerly Level II) Equivalency in Program Management, Engineering & Technical Management, or Test & Evaluation — or the ability to obtain within 6 months
Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field
10 years of systems engineering or systems integration experience supporting acquisition programs
Knowledge of maritime electrical system design requirements, particularly ungrounded maritime electrical systems
Knowledge of supply chain management principles, including identifying and assessing counterfeit vulnerabilities
Desired:
Master’s degree in an engineering field and 8 years of systems engineering or integration experience supporting acquisition programs
At least 2 years of experience in design and analysis of maritime electrical systems
Experience with electrical subsystems and system design associated with currently fielded Naval Special Warfare craft