POSITION: Senior Space Systems Engineer
LOCATION: Dayton, Ohio
REQUIRED SECURITY CLEARANCE: Active TS with SCI eligibility
POSITION TYPE/STANDARD WORK HOURS: Full time, 40 hours

WHO WE ARE:

BTAS is a woman-owned small business founded in 1995, located near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Beavercreek, OH. We have earned national and regional awards in the Department of Defense for our proven IT, Engineering, and Program Management capabilities.
We are committed to working with exceptional quality and professionalism to deliver excellence to our customers, while providing our employees a stimulating and satisfying work environment as we collaborate with teammates to achieve common goals.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• MA/MS degree required.
• Individual must be a SME Recognized Industry Leader.
• Must be expert in space system development and operations.
• Must be expert in maturing space system technologies through all TRL levels.
• Must be expert in space system signature measurements, predictions, and sensor development.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide space acquisitions, engineering, operations, and technical advice and assistance for all projects and programs to support any stage of the acquisition life cycle.
• Support program acquisition efforts for advanced technology, future concept development, and integration activities.
• Advise and assist the government on cost, schedule, and performance issues.
• Revise or provide draft Joint Capabilities Integrated Development System (JCIDS) and acquisition documentation to the applicable government program manager.
• Support the presentation of products to internal and external customers.
• Documentation includes Initial Capability Documents, Interface Control Documents, Capability Development/Production/Requirements Documents, Milestone documentation, Acquisition Strategies, Analysis of Alternatives, Concept of Operations, Memorandums of Agreement/Understanding, Technical/Systems Requirement Documents, Defense Acquisition Board documentation, Technical Evaluations, System Specifications, enabling concepts, training material, briefings, white papers, reports, and analysis results.
• Provide a draft SME-level technical and/or programmatic status report of any individual program or of the portfolio upon request by the government.
• Identify areas of improvement in acquisition processes and provide actionable recommendations.
• Assist in building and maintaining a government risk program, including risk identification, process definition, and detailed technical risk mitigation plans.
• Maintain awareness of current program schedule, monitor acquisition implementation, report requirement shortfalls, and provide a program assessment based on identified risks.
• Combine and correlate program execution data with program baselines to maintain and update acquisition reports.
• Advise the government program manager on technical engagements such as technical interchange meetings, design reviews, program conferences, video teleconferences, telecons, working groups, and informational meetings.
• Maintain broad awareness and understanding of all programs and technology development efforts in execution across the applicable portfolio.
• Assist integrated product teams and working groups and establish customer and contractor interfaces.
• Provide technical and operational insight to support mission protection, operations, and mission data assessments.
• Recommend solutions for technical anomalies.
• Develop, deliver, review, and evaluate impact analysis, audits, studies, compliance inspections, and readiness reviews.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

This position does not supervise the work of others.

OTHER DUTIES:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and/or activities may change at any time with or without notice.