Overview

This position provides an opportunity to further advance the cutting-edge technology that supports some of our nation’s core defense/intelligence services and systems. Employees work closely with esteemed customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions.

Shift: 3rd 10:00PM to 6:00 AM

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES AND TASKS:

  • Analyzes effects of projects upon various areas such as Engineering, Facilities, and the labor pool to determine the most practical and cost-efficient methods to obtain the required resources
  • Designs systems, software and equipment layout
  • Designs, develops, analyzes, troubleshoots and provides technical skills during research and/or product development
  • Determines, monitors, and reviews costs, operational budgets and schedules, and manpower requirements
  • Develops test plans and preventative maintenance programs
  • Develops, implements, installs, tests, modifies and/or operates complex equipment and systems
  • Effective creative application of technical competence within domain of expertise
  • Effectively participates on the engineering work team and supports other team members
  • concerning experiment design, materials, equipment setup/maintenance and related issues
  • Establishes work methodology and sequence to gather and organize data for review with appropriate engineer(s) in support of project
  • Formulates and recommends corrective action measures such as schedule revisions, manpower adjustments, fund allocations, and work requirements
  • Gathers and organizes data for review with appropriate engineer(s) in support of project
  • Instructs customers in the operation and maintenance of the system
  • Maintains records, compiles reports, graphs, charts and related data in support of projects
  • Makes recommendations and coordinates and identifies resources required to meet defined
  • project requirements
  • Participates in the tactical planning for completion of identified project segment
  • Performs research and engineering laboratory functions involving the layout, building, testing, troubleshooting and repairing of devices, assemblies, subsystems, and systems
  • Prepares and coordinates the plans and schedules for new or existing programs
  • Provides technical expertise to customers, users or company personnel either at domestic or international field sites
  • Regular communication with other internal customer’s/work teams
  • Resolves proposal preparation problems and assesses the progress against established plans and parameters
  • Serves as company liaison with customers on administrative and technical matters for assigned projects
  • Serves as technical support resource with a demonstrated level of narrowly focused technical competence within defined engineering discipline
  • Supports and participates in negotiations with customer
  • Utilizes defined resources to meet project requirements

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

  • Builds productive internal/external working relationships
  • Considerable ability to perform all responsibilities associated with the position
  • Considerable professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues
  • Considerable application of concepts and principles
  • Contributes to the completion of organizational projects and goals
  • Creative, innovative responsibilities requiring advanced decision-making skills
  • Demonstrate competent level of theoretical and practical knowledge within a defined engineering support discipline
  • Demonstrate considerable communications skills
  • Demonstrate creativity in resolving process and technical issues
  • Demonstrate narrowly focused in-depth technical level of practical operational process knowledge in a specific engineering area
  • Demonstrates technical competence in the setup, monitoring and documentation of experiments and/or lab equipment
  • Develops solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity
  • Effective leadership for team members with less domain knowledge
  • Errors in judgment or failure to achieve results would normally require a moderate expenditure of resources to rectify
  • Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
  • Frequent internal company and external contacts
  • Frequent use and considerable knowledge of industry practices, techniques, and standards
  • Grasps and applies new information quickly; handles more complex assignments
  • May provide work direction to other employees; lacks authority to discipline or reward
  • Non-technical Support
  • Normally receives general instructions on routine work, detailed instructions on new projects or assignments
  • Refers to policies and practices for guidance
  • Represents organization on specific projects
  • Shows initiative on assignments, exercises independent judgment and professionally executes projects with little direction
  • Technical Support
  • Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment and overall adequacy and accuracy
  • Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors
  • Works under only very general supervision