Senior Engineer - FMS (ENKG_01) with Security Clearance

Air Combat Effectiveness Consulting Group (ACE Group), LLC; Lexington Park (MD); On-site; USD 161,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Combat Effectiveness Consulting Group, LLC in Lexington Park, MD, seeks a Senior Engineer for Foreign Military Sales (FMS). You will support cradle-to-grave SE processes, ensuring rigorous technical baselines, LOAs, and testing for multiple platforms.

The role requires close collaboration with the FMS PM and APME to maintain quality requirements and robust development. Responsibilities include planning flight tests, coordinating SMEs across domains, overseeing configuration management, and

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of recent and relevant experience in systems engineering for Naval Aviation.
• 3 of those years must involve SE milestones and reviews of the Acquisition process.
• MS/MA or BS +4 years substituted as allowed for degree requirements.
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility for classified information; active Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Support the FMS Program Manager and APME ensuring SE rigor and quality in LOAs and technical requirements.
• Develop LOAs, SOWs, CDRLs, and other acquisition documentation.
• Plan and execute flight tests and analysis for FMS programs.
• Coordinate with SMEs across NAVAIR/NAVSEA domains.
• Lead risk management activities and obsolescence solutions.
• Oversee configuration management and ECP/RFV/CR processes.
• Support production readiness and post-delivery sustainment.
• Plan budget and manage resources; assist FMS case development and new business.

Skills

Customer engagement

Flight test planning

SE artifact development

Cross-domain coordination

Risk management

Configuration management

Obsolescence solutions

Acquisition docs

Budget planning

Quality assurance

Naval Aviation SE

Travel readiness

Education

MS/MA in Engineering/Math/Physics

BS in Engineering/Math/Physics +4 yrs substituting

Job description

Senior Engineer - FMS (ENKG_01) Lexington Park, MD

Air Combat Effectiveness Consulting Group, LLC

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
• 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
• Salary Description $161K - $200K depending on experience