Title:
Lead Ground Systems Engineer
Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!
KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.
Why Join Us?
- Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
- Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
- Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading Enterprise-Wide Systems: Lead and oversee technical efforts of six systems engineers providing enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering services for SIGINT, GEOINT, and Operations Center ground systems
- Driving Projects and Continual Assessment: Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess team’s tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate
- Providing Analysis, Insights, and Recommendations: Work with government managers program leadership to organize and plan ground team support; maintain awareness of government’s evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process or resource effectiveness or efficiency
- Ground Systems Technical Support: Provide technical support to government points of contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for ground system activities
- Collaboration across the Enterprise: Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors supporting the government – across the enterprise
- Develop Assessments and Staffing Products: Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership
Work Environment:
- Location: On-site
- Travel Requirements: Minimal
- Working Hours: Standard
Qualifications:
Required:
- Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with a Polygraph
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM)
- Experience: 14 years of relevant experience
- Complex Ground Systems Engineering: Demonstrated leadership success on variety of complex ground systems engineering projects impacting mission operations
- NRO Systems: In-depth experience with NRO systems engineering and mission readiness processes; familiar with readiness events, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria; systems engineering governance
- GEOINT and SIGINT Architecture: Knowledge of GEOINT and SIGINT overall space and ground architecture including mission management, mission control and mission processing functions
- Program Lifecycle Experience: Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations, and maintenance, decommission
- CONOPS Requirement Development: CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development
- Systems Development Technologies: Experience in systems development methodologies (e.g Agile, DevOps, Spiral, Waterfall, etc.) and cloud technologies
- Defining Solutions for Abstract Topics: Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics—drives tasks to closure
- Communication: Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment
- Consensus Builder: Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
Desired:
- Digital Engineering and MBSE: Experience with Digital Engineering (DE)/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools
- Ground Systems Operations: Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft or ground systems operator
- Technology: SAFe, Agile, INCOSE certifications
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you’re excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together.
KBR Benefits
KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.
At KBR, we are passionate about our people, sustainability, and our Zero Harm culture.
These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a more inclusive and diverse company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment of real collaboration across cultures and locations. Our individual differences and perspectives bring enhanced value to our teams and help us develop solutions for the most challenging problems. We understand that by embracing those differences and working together, we are more innovative, more resilient, and safer.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
