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Position Summary
As the Senior Acquisition Program Engineer – System Safety at Eglin AFB, you’re the safety maestro behind some of the Air Force’s most advanced weapon systems—leading tough hazard analyses, steering risk‑reduction decisions, and ensuring mission‑ready performance from concept to sustainment. You’re the go‑to expert leadership depends on when the stakes are high and the safety standards are even higher. And when the job’s done? You step out into the Emerald Coast—where world‑class beaches make every workday feel like it ends in paradise.Responsibilities
Duties include, but not limited to:
System Safety Program Leadership
- Lead System Safety Program activities providing senior technical guidance on hazard analysis, risk assessment, and system safety requirements.
- Oversee the development, review, and validation of system safety artifacts (e.g., SSHA, SAR, O&SHA, hazard logs, risk‑tracking documentation).
Advanced Hazard Analysis & Risk Evaluation
- Perform high‑complexity evaluations of OEM safety assessments, identifying analytical errors, validating probability models, and ensuring risks are accurately characterized—mirroring demonstrated duties such as detecting flawed OEM Risk Reduction Safety Assessments and correcting probability‑based risk rankings.
- Deliver senior‑level recommendations that support Air Force operational approvals, safety-policy decisions, and risk‑acceptance processes.
Test & Evaluation Safety Integration
- Provide expert safety oversight for developmental and operational test events, ensuring ground tests, flight tests, interoperability tests, and reliability tests incorporate correct safety constraints and mitigations.
- Review T&E plans, procedures, and results for safety impacts and ensure alignment with program safety objectives and Air Force standards.
Classified System Safety Support
- Fulfill PWS-directed security requirements, including classified-material handling, SCI product management, and vault-access operations—as reflected in documented system-safety roles.
- Maintain strict compliance with PWS security and information‑protection requirements (classified product tracking, SCI event support, and secure‑facility procedures).
Acquisition Lifecycle Integration
- Advise program leadership on safety risks and requirements across technology maturation, design reviews, test readiness, fielding decisions, sustainment activities, and configuration changes.
- Represent the program office in high‑visibility technical reviews, safety boards, and briefings to senior stakeholders.
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- Partner with engineering, T&E organizations, configuration management, OEM partners, logistics, cybersecurity, reliability engineering, and operational units to ensure safety considerations are embedded throughout the acquisition process.
- Guide junior engineers and provide mentorship in system-safety methodology, Air Force policy, and acquisition best practices.
Qualifications
Citizenship: Must be a US citizen
Minimum Required Qualifications
Clearance: TS/SCI eligible
Education:Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (ABET‑accredited) or closely related technical discipline
Years of Experience:10 years of experience
Preferred Qualifications
Clearance: TS/SCI eligible
Education: Advanced Degree in related technical discipline
Years of experience:15 years
Additional Information
Location: Eglin AFB, FL
Travel: 10%
Onsite
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Company Overview
Odyssey is a world-class technical, engineering, and integration company serving the warfighting ecosystem with airborne integration, ISR, C2, and warfighter readiness capabilities. Odyssey meets the military’s operational needs by integrating layered defense systems from equipment, technology, and services to data, information, and business operations. We streamline defense acquisition and sustainment, engineering the technical battlefield with domain-specific proficiency to ensure lethality. Odyssey is dedicated to excellent contract execution, peak organizational performance, and fostering a workplace built on employee care.
Odyssey is proud to live out our core values of commitment, ambition, and respect in our work and communities through OdysseyCares, a philanthropic group focused on giving back through direct donations, an employer match program, and volunteering events.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
Please Note:
Final compensation for this position will be determined by various factors such as the Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant work experience, specific skills and competencies, geographic location, education, and certifications.This Role requires enhanced security processing, and you will be asked to fill out the following Personnel Screening Questionnaire Forms should you accept a contingent or official offer:
- Pre-Screening Questionnaire
- PSQ Template 1 - Foreign Affections
- PSQ Template 2 - Foreign Associations
- PSQ Template 3 - Foreign Travel
- PSQ Template 4 - Personal Conduct
- PSQ Template 5 - Financial Responsibilities