What are the responsibilities and job description for the SYSTEMS ENGINEER JOURNEYMAN position at VSolvit?
We are looking for a motivated self-starter who wants to join a team dedicated to excellence and continuous process improvement. The successful candidate will join our sustaining engineering team to provide support to the Operations and Logistics team by documenting current systems and configurations and ensuring system updates are tracked and implemented. The successful candidate will review failures and findings in conjunction with our fault analysis analyst to identify any trends and to recommend engineering solutions as well as work hand in hand with testing 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.
As with any position, additional expectations exist. Some of these are, but are not limited to, adhering to normal working hours, meeting deadlines, following company policies as outlined by the Employee Handbook, communicating regularly with assigned supervisor(s), and staying focused on the assigned tasks including company meetings, and completing other tasks as assigned.
Primary Duties
- Assist in the analysis of failed products to improve sustainment support through viable solutions
- Document current system status and configurations and prepare engineering change documentation for government review.
- Responsible for enabling day-to-day execution of systems integration and test flow, managing work orders, and the driving discrepancy findings into actionable items and system improvements
- Develop Engineering BOMs from Technical Data Packages
- Brief Engineering Change Proposals to CCB
- 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 and diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages (DMSMS) in conjunction with the IBD-SS logistics team
- Interface with other engineers, subject matter experts, and technicians to solve equipment malfunctions and design flaws
Basic Qualifications
- BA/BS 5-8 years relevant experience (12 years’ experience in lieu of a degree)
- Active Secret Clearance
- PDM PLM Tool experience
- QA/QC experience as it relates to Physical Configuration Audits
- 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
- US Secret security clearance required
Company Summary
Join the VSolvit Team! Founded in 2006, VSolvit (pronounced 'We Solve It') is a technology services provider that specializes in cybersecurity, cloud computing, geographic information systems (GIS), business intelligence (BI) systems, data warehousing, engineering services, and custom database and application development. VSolvit is an award winning WOSB, CA CDB, MBE, WBE, and CMMI Level 3 certified company. We offer a customizable health benefits program that best meets the needs of its employees. Offering may include: medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, long and short-term disability and other insurance products, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, 401K Retirement Plan options, Tuition Reimbursement, and assorted voluntary benefits. Our goal is to grow together and enjoy the work that we do as a team.
VSolvit LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
