Job Description

Direct Hire

Location: Wright Patterson AFB – Dayton, OH

Clearance : Ability to obtain (Secret Clearance preferred)

Hybrid Onsite – 1-2 days in office

Salary: 135K-150K

Requirements:

• 10+ years of functional area experience
• Airworthiness/ Aircraft experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in a ABET accredited engineering discipline

Plusses:

• KC-46 or any large aircraft experience

Job Description:

An employer is seeking a Senior Communications/ Navigation Engineer to work hybrid onsite at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, OH for a direct hire opportunity. Apply an understanding of DoD, AF, and common engineering/scientific principles, processes, and procedures to improve performance and sustainability of the KC-46 and future AF and joint service weapon systems, Apply MIL-HDBK-516C Airworthiness Certification Criteria, to aircraft systems and subsystems.

• Assist in translating user requirements into weapons system requirements, which will be used to design, develop, fabricate, test and evaluate weapons systems, subsystems and equipment for eventual fielding and deployment.
• Assist with the development of requirements and technology needs into action plans and policies necessary to improve and retain world class manufacturing, operations, re-manufacturing, and de-militarization/disposal of weapon system capabilities within the USAF
• Assist in performing technical/mission analyses of existing and future operational requirements, assist in developing system concepts and perform technological/trade-off assessments of proposed designs/modifications
• Assist in providing rapid response engineering service and support as augmentation to organic resources through in-depth problem identification, impact assessment, and development of corrective actions for critical supportability problems
• Support and assist in conducting the system safety engineering program, including mishap risk assessments; evaluating contractor safety proposals and safety analyses; evaluating safety concerns of using and support commands; and assisting with resolution of high priority safety issues.
• Assist in performing material solution analyses leading up to design reviews and in producing or supporting development of draft documentation and presentation materials as requested or necessitated by programmatic limits based on cost, schedule, and performance.
• Assist in translating user requirements into system requirements, which will be used to design, develop, fabricate, test and evaluate systems, subsystems, and equipment for deployment.
• Assist in providing support to produce or review products that include the following: technical evaluations/plans; engineering studies, reports, and analyses; and acquisition strategies/plans such as: (ICD), Operational Requirements Documents (ORD),Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), (CPD), System Requirements Documents (SRD), System Specification (SS), System Engineering Plan (SEP), Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), Program Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health Evaluation (PESHE)
• Assist with technical requirements compliance pertaining to avionics development, test, sustainment and operations pertaining to navigation, voice communication systems, Line of Sight (LOS) and Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) data link systems, military and civilian communication networks, network protocols, Information Protection Security (IPSec), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)/Extensible Markup Language (XML) packaging of network commands and air data systems to include performance, integrity and airworthiness.
• Assist with evaluating technical documents, determining sufficiency for demonstrating compliance with specification and airworthiness, summarizing findings, recommending changes, and communicating all results to program office.

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