Site Representative Systems Engineer

SAIC; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC seeks a highly experienced Site Representative Systems Engineer to support Horizon 2 on a government program in Tucson, AZ. You will lead systems engineering, manufacturing, and production readiness activities for customer mission systems.

Responsibilities include participating in reviews, monitoring corrective actions, verifying hardware and production readiness, and coordinating with the home program office to ensure timely execution and seamless integration into production."

Qualifications

• Technical requirements development, systems engineering, and manufacturing for terrestrial/space systems.
• Requirements verification and validation processes.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
• In-scope security background investigation (T5/SSBI) and SCI eligibility.
• Willingness to be nominated for access to SAPs and to consent to a polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Participate in developer reviews and boards, maintaining situational awareness and reporting updates to the home office.
• Monitor progress on corrective actions, change items, obsolescence issues, and production risk drivers.
• Follow hardware pedigrees and participate in first article inspections and audits.
• Supervise lab/manufacturing activities, build schedules, progress, and issues impacting the timetable.
• Benchmark best practices against developers’ processes and assess transition to production readiness.

Skills

Systems engineering

Manufacturing

Requirements verification

Independent work

Security clearance (T5/SSBI)

Polygraph readiness

Education

B.S. in Engineering with 14+ years or M.S. with 12+ years

Job description

SAIC has a need for a highly experienced Site Representative Systems Engineer to support to an exciting and impactful customer mission on the Horizon 2 contract. The Horizon 2 contract provides the Government system acquisition program offices Advisory and Assistance Services for various types of weapons systems. This position is available in Tucson, AZ .

The successful candidate will exhibit proactiveness, leaning forward in a high-impact customer mission environment. This position requires strong experience in systems engineering and manufacturing. The candidate will work closely with the customer and other project teammates to support acquisition, integration, test, qualification, deployment, and operations of customer mission systems as they transition into production.

Responsibilities Include:

• Participate in developer reviews, meetings, & boards (technical interchange meetings, manufacturing readiness reviews, change management, etc.), maintaining situational awareness of daily happenings and flowing updates/concerns to the home program office.
• Monitor/overseeing progress on corrective actions, problem closures, change board items, obsolescence issues, diminishing sources, etc.
• Following hardware pedigrees and participating in hardware verification efforts such as first article inspections, functional configuration audits, and physical configuration audits.
• Monitor lab and manufacturing areas, to include build schedules, build progress, and issues that would frustrate the schedule.
• Benchmark known best practices against developer's processes.
• Review and assess developers manufacturing and transition to production readiness/progress.

This is you:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering with at least 14 years of experience or Masters and 12 years of experience.
• Technical requirements development, systems engineering, and manufacturing in the design, production, integration and testing of terrestrial and space systems.
• Requirements verification and validation.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with little to no oversight.
• Must have an in-scope security background investigation (T5 or SSBI), adjudicated for SCI eligibility and enrolled in the Continuous Evaluation program (if applicable).
• Must be willing to be nominated for access to Sensitive Compartment Information and Special Access Programs and willing to consent to a Polygraph examination.