Overview

Hepburn and Sons LLC is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to support the full range of technical engineering support and program management of Above Water Sensors and Lasers Program Office. 

This is a contingent position based on award/funding from the customer.

Working at Hepburn and Sons

Working at Hepburn means applying a passion for meaningful work with intellectual rigor to help solve the leading issues of today. We honor handshakes as rigorously as contracts. We keep trust at the forefront of every decision we make and customer we serve! We believe there is no greater principle in business than that of building a solid foundation of trust. We hold one another to the highest levels of integrity and ethics. We cherish every opportunity given to us by our clients. We believe in collaboration, mutual respect, open communication, and opportunity for growth.

Responsibilities

• Provide program risk assessments, analysis, tracking, and reporting, to include performing program risk assessments for use in senior level briefings.
• Provide technical and program management support for electronic attack and electronic protection test efforts.
• Review test plans and procedures for accuracy, scenario completeness and test objective compliance. Perform evaluations of linkage of resulting scenarios back to TEMP objectives and thresholds, ensuring all objectives are accurately translated into test plan sections.
• Support engineering analysis and trade-off studies to support mission performance improvement.
• Monitor emerging science and technology developments for applicability to program requirements.
• Assist in performing program monitoring and control efforts, including critical path management, planning and preparation for critical events and establishment and implementation of other control methods tailored to requirements including development of milestone charts, Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms), schedules and timelines.
• Support technical management and systems engineering processes, including specific subject matter technical expertise in the areas of, but not limited to, radar signal processing, radar detection, tracking, and discrimination for surface, air, electronic warfare, lasers and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) operations. 
• Analyze domestic and international strategies and policies.
• Collect data, conduct analysis and prepare briefings. 

Qualifications

• High school degree, or a GED, and twenty (20) years of relevant Surface Radars, Electronic Warfare, EO/IR, Decoys and/or Laser software system/subsystem design, development, production and/or test experience, OR
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, scientific, or technical discipline and fifteen (15) years of relevant Surface Radars, Electronic Warfare, EO/IR, Decoys and/or Laser software system/subsystem design, development, production and/or test experience, OR
• Master's degree in engineering, scientific, or technical discipline and ten (10) years of relevant Surface Radars, Electronic Warfare, EO/IR, Decoys and/or Laser software system/subsystem design, development, production and/or test experience.
• DoD Secret level clearance 

Preferred: 

• Docotorate degree (PhD)
• Demonstrated knowledge of:
  • Navy/DOD policy and guidance
  • System Engineering Technical Reviews
  • Technology readiness and technical performance measures
  • Combat Systems Integration and requirements decomposition
  • Model Based Systems Engineering
  • Program Protection
  • Risk Management Process