Senior Defense Vehicle Sustainment & R&D Leader

The Pennsylvania State University; State College (Centre County); Hybride; USD 140 000 - 231 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State seeks an Operations Research and Development Engineer to lead sponsor engagement and advance ground vehicle sustainment, analytics, and cyber-secure maintenance capabilities. You will help align research with military priorities and supervise multidiscipline teams in a secure environment.

This senior role requires extensive U.S. military logistics and DoD acquisition experience, a engineering degree, and a track record of developing long-term

Qualifications

• Senior officer experience in U.S. military engineer, motor transport, or ordnance communities.
• Understanding of DoD acquisition and sustainment integration.
• Clear communication of complex sustainment challenges to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsabilités

• Lead business development and sponsor engagement for vehicle sustainment and cybersecurity research portfolios.
• Maintain and expand strategic relationships with military stakeholders, especially within the USMC, Army, and joint logistics communities.
• Provide subject-matter expertise on military ground vehicle operations, sustainment processes, and enabling IT systems.
• Shape research directions by translating operational sustainment challenges into actionable research and development objectives.
• Support and guide project teams in vehicle investigation, readiness analytics, cyber-secure maintenance operations, and related technologies.
• Mentor staff in sponsor engagement, program execution, and operational sustainment concepts.
• Serve as an advisor on DoD acquisition pathways and requirements processes relevant to sustainment technologies.
• Contribute to proposal development, program planning, and strategic road-mapping for ASTD.
• Ensure engineering activities comply with sponsor requirements, engineering standards, quality requirements, cybersecurity policies, export control regulations, information assurance requirements, and laboratory security procedures.
• Support research conducted within Unclassified, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), and Classified environments while safeguarding sensitive technical information and government-furnished data.
• Participate in technology transition activities, including system integration, operational demonstrations, customer evaluations, manufacturing support, and field implementation.
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies to improve program execution, system performance, reliability, maintainability, and mission effectiveness.
• Initiate and contribute to business development activities through technical concept development, customer engagement, proposal preparation, Independent Research and Development (IRAD) initiatives, and strategic technology planning.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior engineers, engineering technologists, engineering support personnel, interns, and students.
• Maintain technical expertise through continued professional development, participation in technical working groups, awareness of emerging technologies, and engagement with the defense research community.

Connaissances

Senior military logistics officer

Sponsor engagement

Ground vehicle operations

Cybersecurity maintenance

Leadership and mentoring

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science

Description du poste

The Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State seeks an Operations Research and Development Engineer to lead sponsor engagement and advance ground vehicle sustainment, analytics, and cyber-secure maintenance capabilities. You will help align research with military priorities and supervise multidiscipline teams in a secure environment.

This senior role requires extensive U.S. military logistics and DoD acquisition experience, a engineering degree, and a track record of developing long-term