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

As a Systems Engineer Senior, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission 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.

You will play a crucial role in execute planning, design, and implementation of system engineering projects, by providing clear technical direction to team members and have breadth of knowledge as it pertains to systems integration and design.

The ability to work hand in hand with test engineers and technical writers in developing engineering test plans with the 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.

As the Sustainment Engineer you will be responsible for reviewing existing Urgent Capability Acquisition (UCA) programs and providing 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

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

Drive key outcomes by assisting in the analysis of failed products to improve sustainment support through viable solutions to include but not limited too

• Review baseline designs for errors and failure points.

• Execute Level of Repair Analysis for systems end to end.

• Develop Engineering BOMs from Technical Data Packages

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

• Brief Engineering Change Proposals to CCB

• Development of engineering test plans and 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 systems with a focus on sustainment engineering.

• Support existing systems by researching, reviewing design, assisting procurement, cataloging, installing, and conducting maintenance of FP Systems.

What you will 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  (years of experience will be considered in lieu of a degree)

• Experience: 5+ years of related experience
• Security clearance level: US Secret security clearance required day one; required to maintain secret clearance to remain on contract

• Role requirements: This position is onsite 100% in Huntsville, AL, travel maybe required to support the mission up to 50% both CONUS and OCONUS contingent on mission requirements and could change based on customer requirements and the ability to support all other requirements based on the mission and the scope of the position

Specific tools, skills or technologies desired in this system engineering sustainment role include but are not limited to:  

• QA/QC experience as it relates to Physical Configuration Audits

• Understanding of the full scope of the engineering lifecycle from concept to divestment

• Experience translating an Engineering BOM into a Service BOM for logistics

• Experience with DoD Systems, Engineering requirements and DoD contracts

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

• Experience preparing Engineering Change Proposals (ECP) and Technical Data Packages (TDP)

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

• Previous experience with Rapiscan and FLIR product lines, DoW Force Protection, Networking and computer technology, hydraulics, electronics, mechanical, camera technologies and supporting software.

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.