Aviation Weather Systems Engineer - NAS/BNATCS Lead

Peraton; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking an experienced Engineer– Aviation Weather Systems to support modernization under the FAA BNATCS contract. The onsite role in Washington, DC coordinates engineering execution for aviation weather systems (AWOS, VWOS, WCAM) and NAS interfaces, ensuring data flows, schedules, and critical decisions align with NEEDS standards.

The candidate will work with FAA stakeholders, engineering teams, subcontractors, and installation partners to deliver high-level systems engineering,

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex technical projects involving engineering, infrastructure modernization, or mission-critical environments.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams across multiple organizations.
• Experience managing technical schedules, risks, action items, deliverables, and customer communications.
• Experience developing engineering documentation, technical reports, requirements packages, or acquisition documentation.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
• Experience working with Government customers and senior leadership.
• Preferred: FAA/NAS modernization or aviation weather systems exposure.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level systems engineering support that accounts for data flows and dependencies between weather observation systems and external NAS systems.
• Manage interfaces between weather observation systems and interconnected NAS systems, maintaining data flow integrity across all boundaries.
• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules, action item trackers, risk registers, and technical deliverable schedules.
• Support project reviews, briefings, status reporting, and executive-level communications.
• Lead AWOS weather observation engineering efforts, including pre-site surveys, site investigations, and detailed drawings.
• Oversee complete AWOS engineering packages per FAA siting requirements and ALP standards.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams to complete drawings, analyses, and implementation packages on schedule.
• Track technical issues, risks, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions through resolution.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, recommendations, site survey findings, and final deliverables.
• Coordinate technical discussions with FAA, subcontractors, and installation partners.
• Support procurement planning for long-lead materials and constraints.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Quality, Safety, Cybersecurity, Contracts, Logistics, Procurement, and Program Controls.
• Assist with migration planning and technical transition activities.
• Suggest process improvements to enhance execution and documentation quality.

Skills

U.S. Citizenship

Public trust clearance

Project management

Multidisciplinary coordination

Scheduling and risk management

Technical documentation

Government customer experience

Agile experience

Education

BS/BA in a technical field

MS/MA in a technical field

PhD

AS degree with relevant experience

Tools

Microsoft Project

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Peraton is seeking an experienced Engineer– Aviation Weather Systems to support modernization under the FAA BNATCS contract. The onsite role in Washington, DC coordinates engineering execution for aviation weather systems (AWOS, VWOS, WCAM) and NAS interfaces, ensuring data flows, schedules, and critical decisions align with NEEDS standards.

The candidate will work with FAA stakeholders, engineering teams, subcontractors, and installation partners to deliver high-level systems engineering,