Strategic Sustainment System Test Support Engineer

Acuity Innovations LLC is a small, woman-owned defense contracting company that provides enterprise architecture, solution design, digital engineering, defensive cyberspace operations, system integration, and test and evaluation products and services that improve performance and decrease decision timelines. Our fundamental, repeatable service offering is bound in architecting, designing, securing, integrating, and verifying the operational readiness of data ecosystems.   

Do you want to be part of a unique, small business that differentiates itself by:

• delivering the best products, integrated systems, and mission capabilities for the warfighter
• building long-term relationships and treating its employees as family
• deploying small but powerful High-Performance Teams, like elite Special Forces teams to each task
• collaborating within and across the Acuity Innovations teams as well as with the customer
• providing a growth path to partnership/ownership opportunities

If you have this type of passion and desire to be part of a collaborative team environment with the innovation, initiative, and confidence to make things better, then Acuity Innovations may be the right place to realize your personal and professional goals. 

Package includes:

• Competitive salary
• 3 weeks paid time off
• 11 Federal Holidays
• Flexible Hours
• Benefits 
• Career Development/Mentorship Opportunities
• Company Sponsored Social Events

You will join a systems engineering team defining the next generation of space communication systems supporting US Space Force (USSF) satellite communications for the USSF Space Systems Center (SSC). You will support Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) activities in a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment. You will interface and collaborate with SE&I team members, contractors, government civilians and members of the USSF. You will lead and support several working groups responsible for leading technical discussion, resolve and identify risk, requirement gaps, developing briefings, writing, and tracking action items, and authoring meeting minutes.

We support the Space Force’s satellite communications systems, providing global secure, survivable, and protected communications for our nation’s warfighters. We seek technical individuals who will succeed in a highly collaborative work environment.

https://acuityinnovationsllc.com

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Responsibilities:

• Act as government liaison for Strategic Sustainment System Test Support activities; drive disciplined problem resolution by reporting blockers, issues & concerns, developing & recommending solutions, and timely executing required project modifications
• Manages a team in the day-to-day conduct, execution, and positive results baseline test and evaluation (T&E) activities, from requirements formulation through test planning and performance verification, for compliance with approved test strategies and plan.
• Support programmatic discussions including briefing, and coordinating with, senior government leadership, guiding installation/integration of new hardware/software, and interfacing with industry partners and operational stakeholders
• Support government contract efforts to estimate and track costs, schedule, and performance of required system support contracts
• Author and deliver program documentation including status reports, white papers, working group charts, trip reports
• Support Integrated Product Team Director in tracking new program transitions from acquisition to sustainment to forecast resource requirements and gaps
• Operate satellite communication terminals and associated baseband equipment for Strategic System Test Support activities

Travel: approximately 10%

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, computer science, or equivalent technical discipline
• 15+ years of proven leadership experience in program management, leading a diverse group of personnel while managing multiple projects within a portfolio of systems from start to finish
• 15+ years of experience working with military or DoD civilian clients and managing professional relationships
• Knowledge of DoD mission system sustainment
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Excellent written, verbal communications and presentation skills
• Active Top Secret clearance

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Project Management Institute (PMI) (i.e., PMP) or DAU Level III Program Management (PM) certification
• International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Certification (i.e. CSEP or ESEP)
• Experience with MILSATCOM systems in the RF spectrum
• Experience developing, testing, operating, or maintaining MILSATCOM equipment and systems
• Experience working in a multi-contractor environment