Sustainment Engineer

The Logistics & Sustainment Department is seeking an experienced Sustainment Engineer directly supporting program execution.   The position operates within a matrix environment. Programs retain responsibility for program requirements, priorities, technical direction, cost, and schedule.

The Sustainment Engineer will: ● Develop, integrate, and continuously improve sustainment engineering processes, methods, templates, tools, and standards. ● Support development of sustainment strategies beginning early in the system lifecycle and continuing through fielding, operations, and sustainment. ● Integrate reliability, maintainability, availability, supportability, maintenance, supply support, technical data, training, facilities, support equipment, and other sustainment considerations into system and program decisions. ● Perform sustainment analyses supporting maintenance concepts, sparing, support equipment, manpower, training, lifecycle cost, readiness, and support strategies. ● Work across engineering, product support, provisioning, technical publications, training, field services, depot operations, program management, and other disciplines to integrate end-to-end logistics. ● Participate in design and technical reviews to ensure sustainment considerations are identified early enough to influence system design and lifecycle decisions. ● Participate in peer review and quality-control practices for sustainment engineering products. ● Support development of contract deliverables and program documentation requiring sustainment engineering input. ● Identify opportunities to use data, digital tools, automation, and analytics to improve sustainment planning and decision-making.   Minimum Required Qualifications ● Bachelor’s degree in engineering and a minimum of 4 years OR a Master’s degree in engineering and a minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree where permitted by company requirements. ● Demonstrated experience in sustainment engineering, logistics engineering, systems engineering, integrated product support, or a closely related discipline. ● Experience supporting complex defense, aerospace, weapons system, or similarly technical programs through development, production, fielding, or sustainment. ● Working knowledge of lifecycle sustainment, maintenance planning, reliability and maintainability, supportability analysis, readiness, and logistics support concepts. ● Ability to communicate technical and sustainment issues clearly to engineering, program, and senior leadership. ● Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, resolve competing requirements, and deliver quality products within established cost and schedule constraints. ● US citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.   Preferred Qualifications ● Experience supporting Department of Defense acquisition and sustainment programs. ● Experience integrating sustainment requirements during system design and development. ● Experience with reliability, availability, maintainability, lifecycle cost, maintenance task analysis, sparing, or other quantitative sustainment analyses. ● Familiarity with digital engineering, data analytics, enterprise business systems, and visualization tools supporting sustainment decisions.   Key Outputs The Sustainment Engineer will be expected to: ● Perform Root Cause and Corrective Action investigations on HW failures ● Author Engineering Change Orders and Engineering Change Proposals ● Maintain rigorous configuration control and tracking of fielded assets ● Perform sustainment analysis including but not limited to Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), Operational Availability (Ao) ● Track and manage Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) ● Develop, Integrate, and Deliver ahead of schedule