Description
Project Engineer
Team: Engineering
Location: El Segundo, CA
Commitment: Full-time
Workplace Type: onsite
Salary:
Target salary range: $190,000 - $215,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range and bonus potential for this position based on experience and other factors.
Space Systems Integration (SSI) is a fast-growing engineering company that provides aerospace solutions to a variety of government and commercial customers. Our employees are forward-thinking, self-directed individuals who are committed to solving our customers’ technical challenges.
SSI is seeking a Project Engineer for a role in El Segundo, CA.
Role and Responsibilities:
· Assist the Government with management of multiple simultaneous projects from initiation through completion, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and priorities.
· Facilitate development of plans, requirements, and documentation to define project tasks, including objectives, scope, and milestones, in coordination with stakeholders.
· Support the government with coordination and management of security activities across the DoD and Intelligence Community (IC) for integrated analysis.
· Manage contractor task allocations, maintaining records of assignments, progress, and completion.
· Monitor analysis efforts across multiple contractor-led developments, tracking task execution and progress, ensuring adherence to established timelines and standards.
· Provide updates on project execution, milestones, delays, risks, and mitigation strategies.
· Track deliverables and ensure they go through appropriate review and approval processes.
· Establish, maintain, and ensure accountability for project deadlines.
· Produce recommendations to enhance and optimize project execution.
· Plan, coordinate, and lead project update meetings for senior leadership.
· Schedule, organize, and facilitate reviews and meetings.
· Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure project requirements are met.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM program with 14 years of experience.
- 10+ years in a program management role, or 5+ years in a space engineering role with 5+ additional years in a program management role.
- Managing multiple contractors and customers, including engagement with Government SETA/FFRDC/UARC support.
- Classified space programs, preferably both at the Top Secret and compartmented access to inform integrated analysis, effectiveness, and utility.
- Development and presentations to O-6 and above Govt leadership, decision quality briefings, and papers.
- Problem-solving/critical thinking in complex and dynamic environments.
- Collaborating with IC professionals and understanding IC tasking mechanisms.
- Outer space environment, spacecraft operations, counterspace threats, space control systems.
- Must have an in-scope security background investigation (T5 or SSBI), adjudicated for SCI eligibility, and enrolled in the Continuous Evaluation program (if applicable).
- Minimum Requirement is a TS/SCI clearance and willing to consent to a Polygraph examination.
- Travel is 25%.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with spacecraft engineering and design, orbital dynamics, statistical experiment design, data analysis, modeling and simulation, analytics, information system infrastructure configuration, cost/schedule analysis, weaponeering, wargaming, artificial neural networks and machine learning, MBSE, computer programming, and data governance.
- Established relationships with the following organizations:
- COCOMS (INDOPACOM, USSPACECOM, etc.).
- Space Intelligence Community Organizations (IC).
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
- Space Rapid Capabilities Program Office (SpRCO).
- Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
- Pentagon & Headquarters Staff (AQ, SQ, J-Dirs, GOs, PSMs, PEMs, etc.)
- Professional certification (e.g., Professional Engineer, INCOSE CSEP, ITEA CTEP, Agile PM/PO, etc.).
Space Systems Integration provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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