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Senior Engineer - FMS (ENKG_02)

Lexington Park, MDOnsiteFull TimeSeniorPosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

  • Foreign Military Sales
  • Systems Engineering
  • Naval Aviation
  • Acquisition process
  • LOA
  • SOW
  • CDRL
  • Flight test
  • Risk management
  • System integration

Nice to have

  • MS or MA degree
  • BS or BA degree
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • related scientific discipline
  • CONUS

Role summary

ACE Consulting Group is seeking a Senior Engineer specializing in Foreign Military Sales (FMS) to perform cradle-to-grave Systems Engineering processes and ensure technical rigor for FMS cases. The role involves supporting the FMS Program Manager and APME in developing high-quality technical requirements and processes for Letters of Approval (LOAs), and overseeing technical development, testing, and sustainment of platforms. Key responsibilities include managing risk, safety hazards, system integration, configuration management, obsolescence solutions, acquisition product development, and production quality assurance. The position requires extensive experience in Systems Engineering, particularly within Naval Aviation and the acquisition process, with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.

Description

ACE Consulting Group is seeking a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Senior Engineer. The program office FMS team performs cradle to grave Systems Engineering processes and enforces Systems Engineering rigor for all technical baseline development in the FMS cases. The candidate will directly support the FMS Program Manager and APME in ensuring Systems Engineering rigor and quality technical requirements and processes are included in the FMS LOAs, and that robust technical development, testing, and sustainment is performed for these platforms. Engineering supports the development and delivery of documentation for each country to support targeted airworthiness objectives. Engineering also supports sustainment, safety and readiness of delivered systems.

Requirements

  • Foreign customer engagement
  • Systems Engineering artifact development (e.g. LOA technical & Se process requirements, SE funding requirements, technical requirement specifications, etc.)
  • Flight test planning, testing and execution
  • Communication and coordination of subject matter experts in other NAVAIR/NAVSEA technical domains
  • Capability upgrades for both retrofit and production cut-in
  • Oversee Systems engineering process management – requirements development, artifact development, requirements trade space, SETR events etc.
  • Lead FMS Risk management efforts
  • Manage and communicate safety hazards and resolutions
  • Plan and perform system integration and interface management
  • Configuration management – ECPs, RFVs, CRs
  • Lead Obsolescence solutions
  • Acquisition product development – LOAs, SOWs, CDRLs, etc
  • Production quality assurance, disposition of withhold tags and discrepancies
  • Budget planning and management
  • FMS Case Development and New Business support
  • Average travel approximately 1-2 times per month, CONUS and/or OCONUS

Education:

  • Minimum 10 years of recent and relevant experience, 3 of which must be related to performing Systems Engineering functions in support of Naval Aviation, to include the Systems Engineering milestones and reviews of the Acquisition process and the associated documentation.
  • MS or MA degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or a related scientific discipline. A BS or BA degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or a related scientific discipline AND an additional 4 years of recent and relevant experience (totaling 14) may be substituted for an MS or MA degree.
  • Must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; U.S. citizenship.
  • Active Secret clearance
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