Systems Engineer – Sustainment Engineering

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Engineer Senior and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

Meaningful work and Personal Impact
GDIT is seeking a Systems Integration Engineer to provide sustaining engineering and product lifecycle management support for multiple Force Protection System (FPS) Family of Systems (FOS) to the IBD-SS II program.

The successful candidate will oversee the planning, design, and implementation of system engineering projects. The ability to work hand in hand with test engineers and technical writers in developing engineering test plans.  The ideal candidate will have a commanding knowledge of engineering processes, standards and workflows and will work closely with the Configuration Manager to ensure all system’s product baselines are maintained.

Primary Duties Include:

• Review existing Urgent Capability Acquisition (UCA) programs and provide solutions to issues usually related to sustainment engineering, including investigating root causes of errors or failures, identifying alternatives for end-of-life components, and creating and maintaining documentation

• Assist in the analysis of failed products to improve sustainment support through viable solutions

• Responsible for enabling day-to-day execution of systems integration and test flow, managing work orders, and driving discrepancy findings into actionable items and system improvements

• Develop Engineering BOMs from Technical Data Packages

• Lead Engineering Review Boards for engineering change requests and prepare documents for CCB

• Brief Engineering Change Proposals to CCB

• Conduct briefs of engineering efforts at weekly Integrated Product Team meetings

• Provide guidance and training to junior engineers

• Assist in the development of engineering test plans and reports

• Collaborate with IBD-SS team members from engineering, training, logistics, and operational support as well as government customers and representatives to facilitate operational improvements and provide reach-back support to perform troubleshooting, maintenance, documentation distribution, sparing, and health reports

• Address obsolescence issues and concerns working in conjunction with the IBD-SS logistics team

• Interface with other engineers, SMEs, and technicians to solve equipment malfunctions and design flaws

• Manage the full life cycle of mission systems with a focus on sustainment engineering to support existing systems by researching, reviewing design, assisting procurement, cataloging, installing, and maintaining of FP Systems.

• Complete other duties and tasks assigned related to the mission 

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Systems Engineer Senior must have:

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science (5+ years of related experience will include years of experience in lieu of degree)

• 5 years of systems engineering or relevant experience

• Product Data Management / Product Lifecyle Management (PDM PLM) Tool experience desired

• Superior technical writing skills, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Field Bulletins, Maintenance plan

• Experience with DoD Systems, Engineering requirements and DoD contracts

• Experience conducting Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products

• Security clearance level: Active Secret clearance

• Current US Passport

• Position on site Huntsville, AL

• Travel could be required for both CONUS/OCONUS based on mission requirements could be up to 50% but based mission requirements

GDIT is your Place

• At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals

• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, competitive pay and paid time off

• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

Own your Opportunity 

• Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.