Lead Transition Engineer

Title:
Lead Transition Engineer

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KBR's National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country's most critical role - protecting our national security.

KBR has an opportunity for a Lead Transition Engineer to guide, and provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory services for a government customer in Chantilly, VA.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR's work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist the government oversee, guide, and manage technical efforts for transition activities delivering vital mission operations capabilities. Efforts provide enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering and project management services
• Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate
• Work with government managers to plan, organize, execute, and track efforts; maintain awareness of government's evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process, resource effectiveness, or efficiency
• Provide technical support to government contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for transition activities
• Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors; across the enterprise, to ensure success of transition activities
• Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership

Work Environment:

• Location: On-site
• Travel Requirements: Minimal
• Working Hours: Standard

Qualifications:

Required:

• Clearance: TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
• Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master's Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience
• Project Management: Demonstrated success performing project management and systems engineering tasks, delivering mission capabilities
• SIGINT: Knowledge of SIGINT space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions
• Requirements/Design/Documentation: Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission; familiar with related control gates and associated documentation
• CONOPS: Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, systems analysis, interface control documentation, technical specification review, integration and testing; validation and verification
• Project Software: Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project
• Independent work: Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
• Soft Skills: Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment, polished communicator (written/verbal), master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder

Desired:

• Knowledge of satellite constellations, spacecraft orbit, tasking process, and ground station characteristics
• Knowledge of SIGINT TCPED process
• Familiar with MBSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you're excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team's philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver - Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.