Lead Transition Engineer
Lead Transition Engineer Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR! KBR's National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country's most critical role - protecting our national security. KBR has an opportunity for a Lead Transition Engineer to guide, and provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory services for a government customer in Chantilly, VA. Why Join Us?
- Innovative Projects: KBR's work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
- Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
- Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.
- Assist the government oversee, guide, and manage technical efforts for transition activities delivering vital mission operations capabilities. Efforts provide enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering and project management services
- Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate
- Work with government managers to plan, organize, execute, and track efforts; maintain awareness of government's evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process, resource effectiveness, or efficiency
- Provide technical support to government contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for transition activities
- Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors; across the enterprise, to ensure success of transition activities
- Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership
- Location: On-site
- Travel Requirements: Minimal
- Working Hours: Standard
- Clearance: TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
- Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master's Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience
- Project Management: Demonstrated success performing project management and systems engineering tasks, delivering mission capabilities
- SIGINT: Knowledge of SIGINT space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions
- Requirements/Design/Documentation: Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission; familiar with related control gates and associated documentation
- CONOPS: Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, systems analysis, interface control documentation, technical specification review, integration and testing; validation and verification
- Project Software: Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project
- Independent work: Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
- Soft Skills: Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment, polished communicator (written/verbal), master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
- Knowledge of satellite constellations, spacecraft orbit, tasking process, and ground station characteristics
- Knowledge of SIGINT TCPED process
- Familiar with MBSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies
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