B-52 System Integration Engineer (Tinker AFB OK)

Provide apply knowledge and experience in engineering principles, criteria, and procedures to the B-52 weapon systems, subsystems, and equipment procurement activities, post award project/program management tasks, and acquisition programs throughout their life cycles. Provide products and services as described below in execution of its engineering support. The position is in the B-52 Program Office at Tinker AFB OK.

Essential Job Functions:

Independently manage interfaces and processes with the development planning, technology, intelligence, acquisition, sustainment, and user communities.

Independently apply knowledge and experience to the scope of enterprise activities which spans requirements/acquisition and sustainment and includes: understanding doctrine, assisting in identifying and defining requirements, developing horizontally integrated acquisition, sustainment, and investment strategies, integration of technologies, integration of intelligence, and development of sustainment strategies. Capability requirements and option sets will be architecture-based to ensure the necessary interoperability and appropriate linkages to other capabilities. The integrated option sets developed may cut across multiple platforms, programs and phases as well as across multiple enterprises.

Support development of strategies for cross-cutting capability requirements. The Contractor shall assist with initiating, writing, reviewing, developing, implementing documentation activities including but not limited to TEMPs, SEPs, RFPs, SOOs, contracting items and data items, test plans, LCMPs, LCSPs Pre-MS A and Pre-MS B documentation as appropriate.

Support the identification, assessment, and analysis of the future capability solution sets required to support capability requirements. These activities will be critical subject areas during reviews such as program reviews and IBRs. The Contractor shall review systems engineering initiatives brought about by policy changes to buying commercial items (such as acquisition of NDI, COTS items, and FAA-certified items) and commercial practices (e.g., performance based business environment).

Assist in managing capability and systems engineering studies that involve multiple divisions.

Assist in communicating system engineering solutions, risk analysis, and future solutions within the AFLCMC to include programs as well as MAJCOMs, other enterprises, and the Air Staff.

Assist in transition of programs into and the termination of programs out of the F/B Directorate for use in the field enhancing the warfighters capabilities.

Assist in planning across Family of Systems (FoS) and Systems of Systems (SoS) Engineering especially in the development of capability management strategies, e.g. airborne electronic attack and others.

Assist in establishing a capability architect function with each Division to ensure integrated architectures are developed and used as a standard underlying vehicle for cross enterprise comparison, analysis, and integration for the F/B Directorate.

Assist in developing, improving, and administering technology processes to include applied technology councils, small business innovative research, and/or other initiatives to identify, assess, and submit proposals to the technology community to pursue further.

Review planning documents (e.g. MNS/ORD/ICD/CDD/CPD) for realistic industrial base execution. The Contractor shall promote the use of MS&A throughout the acquisition life cycle process and foster the development and maintenance of common use MS&A tools useful to the Government and industry.

Assist in integration of intelligence information and infrastructure to ensure cross-enterprise capabilities planning and system acquisition.

Provide a wide range of recommended solution sets for capabilities integration planning.

Organize large and small group briefings for discussions gaining cross-divisional engineering expertise. From these meetings a draft of the permanent record, record discussion content, debrief, and accomplish overall planning shall be developed.

Support collaboration with division senior functional leads and manage higher headquarters and internal tasks from the AFMC SOCCER database, establish, coordinate, and implement responsibilities of the program control and functions to include reporting and baseline and schedule management, integrate the division's business processes, as well as, accomplish assigned special projects.

Apply their knowledge of and experience with system integration engineering, coordinating expertise and skills to support the melding of the program technical components and program elements to ensure the elements function together as a system.

Support review and evaluation of military airworthiness certification documentation, coordinating the developed consensus across engineering disciplines and providing detailed status of airworthiness activities 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 as related to providing light attack aircraft to a building partner capacity program; identify gaps and make recommendations.

Assist with the coordination of the engineering effort to review and evaluate planning for test similar to First Article Test (FAT). The Contractor shall support the development of a consensus across engineering disciplines on the successful completion of the test similar to FAT and shall assist with providing detailed status of the test activities to engineering management.

Apply knowledge of and support engineering efforts to include FCA/PCA, aircraft and/or simulator certifications, technical evaluation of contractor efforts, environmental and hazardous material management, system safety, risk management, deficiency report resolution, in addition to assisting with the integration of the system mission planning system and training Systems.

Apply resultant system integration engineering analyses to assist with development of SEPs, an OSS&E baseline, and a plan to provide engineering support for sustainment activities.

Required Skills:

Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.

Possess a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree, or higher, in a professional Engineering discipline from an American Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited educational program and a minimum of 12 years of engineering experience in a relevant functional area with a minimum of 8 of those years working in the specialty task area for the DoD.

An adjudicated DoD Security clearance of Secret on the First Day of employment.

Be knowledgeable and support airworthiness, diagnostics, electrical, and field implementation actions IAW MIL-HDBK-516C. The Contractor shall assist with the management and resolution of technical projects, risks, and mitigation plans. The Contractor shall coordinate root cause investigations with federal agencies and weapon system contractors and support technical meetings with industry and program stakeholders.