Engineering Manager, Modeling & Simulation

Willbrook Solutions, Inc.

is an Equal Opportunity Employer

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

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Job Title: Engineering Manager, Modeling & Simulation

JOB DESCRIPTION:

This position provides engineering project management and scheduling support to assist the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) enterprise and its projects.

The Engineering Project Manager works with representatives of MDA organizations in the M&S Community to facilitate and coordinate Enterprise M&S programs, projects, and tasks.

The position facilitates planning, budgeting, scheduling, executing, monitoring, and controlling system-of-systems M&S initiatives and programs, providing an integrated (System-level) M&S capability for the Missile Defense System.

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Education : Master of Science or Master of Arts degree NOTE: the Government will consider a BA/BS from an accredited institution of higher learning in a related field with 20+ years of experience in lieu of the MA/MS degree requirement.
• Experience : 12+ years working on missile defense-related or other complex, large DoD program/project

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Understanding of systems across engineering lifecycle (i.e.

requirements, design, development, test, and deployment)

• Demonstrated understanding of project management disciplines (i.e.

scheduling, requirements management, risk management, budgeting, execution, monitoring, and reporting)

• Experience with DoD acquisition and budgeting processes and procedures
• Ability to think critically (i.e.

research, understand, analyze, synthesize, and critique), creating solutions to new and one-of-a-kind program challenges and issues as they arise

• Ability to propose and execute technical project plans and solutions which align with customer strategic goals–proposing courses of action based on overarching leadership goals and objectives

• Experience successfully facilitating matrixed, geographically diverse technical product and engineering project teams

• Ability to clearly communicate complex ideas and produce and present clear, concise, well-organized, and audience-relevant presentations and documents
• Ability to create a positive, collaborative working relationship with representatives and stakeholders from external organizations

• Ability to understand engineering project cost, schedule, and technical relationships and interdependencies

• Conscientious, agreeable, self-motivated, and open-minded individual who can lead teams to creatively meet program challenges, drive groups to create solutions, and orchestrate response actions

• Skilled in using Microsoft Office products to communicate technical and programmatic information

• Experience building and maintaining integrated master schedules with dependencies and interfaces.

• Experience using expert judgment to properly determine logical sequence of scheduled work within project constraints.

• Ability to produce schedule views, including bar charts or Gantt charts, milestone charts, network diagrams, and other schedule data.

SECURITY REQUIREMENTS:

Active Secret clearance required

VACCINATION STATUS:

The position requires a COVID-19 vaccination or an approved accommodation/exemption for a disability/medical condition or religious belief.

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