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Bridgeton, MO
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Job Description
Principal Systems Engineer is needed for a hybrid opportunity with SOC's client in Bridgeton, MO
Active Secret clearance preferred, but open to U.S. Citizens who can obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
Estimated Duration: 6 month contract to hire
Position Summary
Our client is seeking a full time Principal Systems Engineer Contractor to support analysis, integration, and hands-on troubleshooting of battlefield reconnaissance, lethality, radar, and electronic system payloads on combat vehicles.
This position executes systems engineering processes to ensure customer technical performance requirements are satisfied in a high-quality, cost-efficient, and schedule-compliant manner throughout the system life cycle. The ideal candidate will bring a strong background in Electrical Engineering and Software and will be comfortable working directly with hardware and software teams in lab and vehicle environments to support system upgrades, check-out, debug integration issues, and enable successful verification and validation. The successful candidate will provide technical expertise and communicate effectively with engineering and management stakeholders and foster an innovative work environment leading to identification of opportunities for improvements in product, process, quality, and productivity.
Job Responsibilities
Qualifications
Desired Qualifications:
Employment Pre-requisites
The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation, and drug urinalysis.
SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer,EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.
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Estimated Min Rate: $65.00/hour
Estimated Max Rate: $70.00/hour
Active Secret clearance preferred, but open to U.S. Citizens who can obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
Estimated Duration: 6 month contract to hire
Position Summary
Our client is seeking a full time Principal Systems Engineer Contractor to support analysis, integration, and hands-on troubleshooting of battlefield reconnaissance, lethality, radar, and electronic system payloads on combat vehicles.
This position executes systems engineering processes to ensure customer technical performance requirements are satisfied in a high-quality, cost-efficient, and schedule-compliant manner throughout the system life cycle. The ideal candidate will bring a strong background in Electrical Engineering and Software and will be comfortable working directly with hardware and software teams in lab and vehicle environments to support system upgrades, check-out, debug integration issues, and enable successful verification and validation. The successful candidate will provide technical expertise and communicate effectively with engineering and management stakeholders and foster an innovative work environment leading to identification of opportunities for improvements in product, process, quality, and productivity.
Job Responsibilities
- Responsible for driving technology and completion of activity on time and budget
- Design, develop, analyze, document and support testing of products, systems, or subsystems
- Ability to complete a technical project independently and mentor and coach other engineers. Review customer specifications and requirements, and develop designs to best support them, including cost as a key design variable
- Provide budget, cost, and schedule input for design assignments
- Document component and subsystem specifications and material requirements
- Analyze designs as necessary
- Specify and evaluate supplier components, subsystems, and services
- Support the program design to cost and design for manufacture requirements
- Develop prototypes to retire key development risks
- Communicate clearly (written and oral) with manufacturing, supply chain, program management, and the customer as required
- Participates heavily in preparation of the more complex and significant proposals
- Provides technical expertise and assistance to other engineers and support personnel
- Interact with technical management, other professionals, technicians and support personnel to coordinate, recommend, and confer regarding technical activities and progress
- May mentor and coach the work of others as assigned
- Support, communicate, reinforce, and defend the mission, values, and culture of the organization
- Attend appropriate engineering, customer, or business meetings
- Mentor and coach less experienced engineers
- Involved with the analysis, design, development, and implementation of new and/or existing systems/sub-systems. May include Architectural Design, Requirements Engineering, or others. Determines system specifications. Supports acquisition of hardware and software (or subcontractor services as needed).
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science or related technical field
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Must possess excellent analytical and communication skills, written and oral
- Ability to travel CONUS and OCONUS (~10%)
- Ability to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance
Desired Qualifications:
- System troubleshooting experience including networking, radar, and fire control systems (bore sighting/ballistics)
- Understanding of Systems Engineering principles and practices
- Proficient in the use of MATLAB for data analysis, Microsoft Office products (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, TEAMS), and later versions of DOORS requirements management software
Employment Pre-requisites
The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation, and drug urinalysis.
SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer,EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.
#DZFED
#INDSOC
Estimated Min Rate: $65.00/hour
Estimated Max Rate: $70.00/hour
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