Sr Staff Engineer Electronics - Sustainment Lead
$157,800–$236,600 year
On-siteOklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Job Summary
Oversee and provide technical direction for avionics sustainment programs, including form/fit/function replacements, spares buys, obsolescence resolution, and repairability. Serve as the primary contact between the Chief Engineer and Avionics Department while delivering program technical status, risks, and mitigations to leadership. Collaborate with systems, hardware, and electrical engineers alongside technical suppliers to develop sustainment solutions, ensuring adherence to NG processes and achieving first-time quality. Drive process development, continuous improvement, and affordability initiatives while mentoring junior Responsible Engineers to maintain cost and schedule constraints. Support business development through white paper and engineering estimate development for identified candidate programs.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline
- 14 years of related experience
- Masters degree in a STEM discipline
- 12 years of related experience
- PhD in a STEM discipline
- 10 years of related experience
- Must have a strong understanding of electronics/avionics systems
- Must have experience with sustaining engineering, change management, and design process tailoring
- Must have the background in form, fit, function replacement programs
- Ability to obtain an active U.S. Government Secret Clearance level
- Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the Company to meet its business needs
- U.S. Citizenship
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge and experience with qualification and environmental testing required for flight equipment
- Familiarity with Nuclear, EMI, Reliability, and/or Logistics technical disciplines
- Airborne platform requirements, integration, and verification experience
- Strong understanding of nuclear and radiation hardening requirements and testing
- Experience with LabView or other data collection and electronic modeling tools
- Active DoD SECRET clearance
- Within 5 years of last investigation
- Existing special access program clearance
- Working knowledge of Earned Value, with exposure to Cost Account Management principles
- Experience in an Agile development environments
- Other communications equipment and systems
- Circuitry components
- Analog and digital computers
- Control and test equipment
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