Engineer Senior – Satellite Ground SEIT

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The Engineering Strategic Support Unit comprises the organizational talent and technical leadership that enables the successful delivery of high-impact discriminating technologies for our customers’ missions.

Our collaborative, cross-functional teams are committed to innovation, integrity, continual learning and strong execution.

Engineer Senior – Satellite Ground SEIT

Ground SEIT Engineer in support of design, development, test and operation of space vehicles and ground systems for commercial, DoD, NASA and other customers.

What You’ll Do:

• Mission design, development and testing of ground system.
• Establish customer needs and develop them into Business/Technical Requirements, establishing scope budget and schedule parameters to execute projects.
• Managed ground system development for software and hardware integration.
• Face-to-face interaction with customers and contractors to respond to requests for information, support to technical meetings, technical interchanges and enterprise working groups.
• Lead a collaborative team comprised of systems engineers, I&T and Transition team members, as appropriate.
• Prepare and maintain CDRLs and tracking Action Items.
• Support to operational validation of releases, database maintenance, user administration, investigation of system anomalies and the raising, tracking and regression testing of Anomaly Reports.
• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the SBU/SSU and the Company.

  Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive work environment.

• Perform other duties as necessary.

What You’ll Need:

• BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 8 or more years related experience.
• Each higher-level related degree, i.e., Master’s Degree or Ph.D., may substitute for two years of related experience.

  Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education.

  Degree must be from a university, college, or school which is accredited by an agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education, US Department of Education.

• Active TS/SCI required.
• Demonstrated knowledge of ground systems for spacecraft operations.
• Experience supporting system engineering of ground systems development efforts including meeting cost, schedule, and performance goals.
• Experience with Software Development Plans and Software Standards.
• Knowledge of systems engineering roles and functions, including operations concept development, requirements management, functional analysis, interface definition and control, synthesis, and/or verification and validation.
• Experience in mission management, command & control and mission data processing domains.
• Experience of ground Integration and Test activities including test planning, procedure writing and execution.
• Ability to quickly come up to speed on technical and management efforts currently underway.
• Knowledge of related disciplines in software engineering, hardware engineering, integration, test engineering, quality engineering, configuration/data management.
• Experience in developing specifications, design and analysis, documentation, and presentations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong written communication skills, oral presentation skills, and an ability to lead group discussions.
• Effectiveness in working with people at all levels and with outside customers, able and willing to contribute wherever and however needed, provide leadership and guidance to program activities and staff.

Working Conditions:

• Ball Aerospace is a drug-free workplace, which is imperative to the health and safety of all employees and is required as a condition of receiving contracts from federal agencies.

  Please remember that regardless of the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and other states, possession and use continues to be illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act.

  This includes the use of some CBD products.

  A post-offer, pre-employment drug test is a condition of employment.

• Work is performed in an office, laboratory, production floor, or clean room, outdoors or remote research environment.
• May occasionally work in production work centers where use of protective equipment and gear is required.
• May access other facilities in various weather conditions.
• Travel and local commute between Ball campuses and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.

Verification that your current security clearance or government customer access meets the requirement for this position will be required.

Relocation for this position is available.

• HIRING SALARY RANGE: $129,500
  – $163,500 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)

US CITIZENSHIP IS REQUIRED

Ball Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.