Space RCO Satellite Assembly Integration and Test Engineer (Top Secret)
KBR
- Albuquerque, NM
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work in an interactive team environment with Government customer leads, satellite subsystems developers, and other subject matter experts
- Identify risks, issues and solutions during spacecraft integration build flow and test operations
- Evaluate proposed satellite designs for manufacturability and integration
- Review, assess and evaluate contractor satellite assembly, integration and test plans and procedures
- Perform test engineering and requirements flow down assessment on satellite level test plans, procedures and reports
- Provide analysis support on satellite test results to verify the satellite design satisfies the system requirements
- Evaluate non-conformances to determine root cause and create trackable risk items and advise on solutions and improvements
- Participate in Failure Review Boards (FRBs) to adjudicate and resolve anomalies by direct fact finding, audits, inquiries, and investigations of processing, testing, or operational failures
- Monitor compliance to interfaces and standards, and appropriate deviations/waivers are in place
- Oversee and advise government program management on integration across full spectrum of interfaces, to include coordination with multiple mission partners
- Produce documentation, reports in support of design, development, production, and testing
- Communicate clearly, concisely, and with technical accuracy—oral and written
- Minimum five (5) years DoD/IC, or relevant industry work experience
- Understanding of space operational environment and corresponding mission user needs
- Previous experience performing space system engineering, development, manufacturing, and test
- Experience working hands-on with commercial and/or government satellite systems
- Experience developing satellite test and requirements verification plans
- Experience analyzing and developing contract data requirements lists and deliverables
- Experience working satellite structural, mechanical, thermal, dynamics, propulsion, mass properties
- Five (10) years of relevant DoD and/or Industry work experience with SAP and/or SCI
- System Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) to Government program office
- Previous experience as Chief Engineer for a large national security space program
- Experience with rapid build, qualification testing both at system and component level
- Experience with ACAT I/II level acquisition programs
- Experience leading satellite assembly, integration and testing for large space system
- Familiarization with US Space Force, Space Systems Command, and IC partners
- An applicable engineering degree from a program from an accredited course of study in engineering, preferably accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) though not required
- Relevant MS/ME degree
- Active TOP SECRET clearance with sensitive compartmentalized information (SCI) and special access program (SAP) eligibility (no less than 2 years total SAP and/or SCI environment experience, with 1-year total within last 5 years) and willingness to submit to a Counter-Intelligence polygraph
- Candidate must maintain a TS/SCI clearance as a condition of employment
- Full-time, on site in vicinity of Kirtland AFB, NM, and will require travel up to 20% of time within the continental United States