System Sustainment Engineer

Primary Responsibilities
• Provide engineering support for fielded systems, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and performance optimization.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for sustainment-related issues across field sites, depots, and user communities.
• Interface with government stakeholders, field teams, and program leadership to communicate status, drive issue resolution, and support mission readiness.
• Support hardware and software baseline management for fielded systems, including updates, patches, and retrofit activities.
• Support integration of sustainment feedback into new builds, retrofits, and follow-on production.
• Work with logistics, supply chain, and depot teams to support spare parts provisioning, repair workflows, and maintenance planning.
• Recommend design improvements, component updates, and obsolescence mitigation strategies.
• Author engineering change proposals, discrepancy reports, and technical risk assessments.
• Support the development and maintenance of technical data packages, maintenance procedures, work instructions, and sustainment documentation.
• Assist in developing long-term sustainment strategies that balance cost, reliability, and operational needs.
• Support fielding events, training activities, site assessments, and occasional travel to operational locations as needed.

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related technical field with 4+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience supporting fielded systems, production systems, depot activities, integration and test efforts, or manufacturing operations.
• Experience working in a cross-functional team environment and communicating technical issues to a variety of stakeholders including the customer.
• Ability to analyze system issues, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, schematics, technical manuals, and system requirements.
• Possess an active Secret clearance or have the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications
Preferred candidates will also have experience and/or working knowledge with:
• Army systems, missile systems, launchers, radars, sensors, or other defense platforms.
• Sustainment engineering, logistics engineering, reliability engineering, field service engineering, or depot operations.
• Troubleshooting integrated electromechanical systems in field, depot, or production environments.
• Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) processes.
• Configuration management, defect tracking, and engineering change processes.
• Depot repair workflows, retrofit activities, service life extension programs, or obsolescence management.
• Reliability analyses such as failure modes, reliability trends, maintainability metrics, and parts obsolescence.
• Logistics deliverables and activities such as technical manuals, repair procedures, and field service bulletins.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement methodologies.
• DOORS or other requirements management tools.
• Understanding of DoD acquisition processes and lifecycle support activities.

Compensation:

$45/hr to $65/hr.

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

Employees in this role will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package starting on day one of employment, including options for medical, dental, and vision insurance. Eligibility to enroll in the 401(k) retirement plan begins after zero days of employment. Additionally, employees in this role will have access to paid sick leave and other paid time off benefits as required under the applicable law of the worksite location.