Description :
Location
Norfolk, VA
Virtual Office/Telecommute?
(Things you should know about Virtual Office)
Virtual Work Not Available
Shift
First
Business Unit
Integrated Defense Sys
Division
Business Development
Program
Strategic Busines Development
Occupation Title
Systems Engineering
Skills Management Title
Operations / Systems Analysis
Job Classification
6K8CP6
Job Type
Non-Management
Experience Level
Senior Level (15+ years of experience)
Exemption Status
Exempt
Union
No
Security Clearance Required?
(Security Clearance definitions)
Current Secret - US Citizenship Required
Work Eligibility Required?
Yes
US Person Status Required?
Yes
Export Control Required?
Yes
Relocation Money Available?
Yes
Date Posted
02/29/2008
Closing Date
(Things you should know about closing dates)
04/04/2008
Position Description
Senior Systems Engineer for the Experimentation Design team at the Suffolk Customer Engagement Center. The candidate will provide technical leadership to an Experimentation Design team of senior technical staff that supports multiple experimentation projects, from initial contact with Boeing internal customers through to eventual execution and analysis of experiments involving external customers. The candidate will lead or assist in framing basic questions of interest to customers; constructively define and scope underlying problems to address customer needs; determine types of experiments to perform; define mission/system requirements as necessary; build an experiment architecture, to include top level schedule and budget; assist in the specification of future operational and functional concepts to be tested, and potential solutions; specify individual experimental design elements, to include type of events, scenarios, iterations, baseline, and control; support the operations analysis team as they develop the data collection plan; support preparation/presentation of final results; and support Virtual Operations execution of experiments as needed. The candidate will collaborate with and support SMEs and other Experimentation stakeholders/sites throughout Boeing IDS, to include the Virtual Warfare Center, Integrated Technology Development Laboratory, Boeing Integration Centers and Distributed Environments. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work with a diverse group of team members are required. Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word is required. Prefer significant experience dealing with senior military/government customers and working government programs. Prefer 15 years experience in a technical classification. Position requires significant domestic travel and the potential for occasional international travel.
Competencies
General/Leadership
[ + ] Building A Successful Team
Proactively ensures that the purpose and importance of the team are clarified (e.g., team has a clear charter or mission statement); designs and guides the setting of specific and measurable team goals and objectives. Clarifies roles and responsibilities of team members; helps ensure that necessary steering, review, or support functions are in place. Regularly mentors senior team leaders in making procedural or process suggestions for achieving team goals or performing team functions; provides necessary resources or helps to remove obstacles to team accomplishments. Listens to and fully involves others in team decisions and actions; values and uses individual differences and talents. Shares important or relevant information with the team. Adheres to the team's expectations and guidelines; fulfills team responsibilities; demonstrates personal commitment to the team.
[ + ] Building Trust
Widely recognized as an enterprise wide level role model in demonstrating honesty; keeping commitments; behaving in a consistent manner. Consistently and proactively shares thoughts, feelings, and rationale so that other fellow senior team leaders, executives, senior managers, internal employees and customers understand personal positions. Consistently listens to others and objectively considers others' ideas and opinions, even when they conflict with one's own. Consistently treats people with dignity, respect, and fairness; gives proper credit to others; stands up for deserving others and their ideas even in the face of resistance or challenge.
[ + ] Communication
Consistently and proactively clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Widely recognized as an enterprise wide expert in consistently keeping the audience thoroughly engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Consistently frames even the most advanced and complex messages in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Consistently and proactively seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Proactively attends to both direct and indirect messages from others; correctly interprets messages and responds appropriately. Regularly mentors and advises fellow senior team leaders on effective communication techniques.
[ + ] Customer Focus
Provides enterprise level modeling for making customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive, high-level customer relationships as they relate to complex and large scale projects; actively seeks information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; presents project level information to senior level customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how complex project level decisions/actions/plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet significant customer needs and resolve complex problems; provides enterprise level thought leadership on monitoring and evaluating customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs; sets up customer feedback systems to gauge customer satisfaction and makes adjustments to service as indicated by feedback.
Technical
[ + ] Analytical Skills
Basic - Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources at the enterprise level.
Preferred -
[ + ] Engineering Analysis
Basic - Highly advanced/expert knowledge of engineering analysis (e.g. mechanical, electrical, avionics, design, circuit, systems, stress, structural, durability).
Preferred -
[ + ] Modeling and Simulation
Basic - Highly advanced knowledge of programming languages (e.g., C++, Matlab, Visual Basic, C, Assembly, C#, Java). Highly advanced knowledge of modeling and prototyping tools (e.g., Matlab , MathCAD, manufacturer specific tools for signal processing software). Highly advanced knowledge of computing equipment and its operating systems (e.g., Windows, Unix, Linux). Highly advanced knowledge of software development and testing tools (e.g., editors, compilers, linkers, desktop simulations, configuration management tools, requirements management tools) capability and usage.
Preferred -
[ + ] Ops Effective Analysis
Basic - Highly advanced, expert knowledge of operational effectiveness analysis methodologies (e.g. mission and system effectiveness analysis) and tools (e.g., mission simulations; measure of effectiveness; human in the loop simulators, test facilities, and operational evaluations).
Preferred -
[ + ] Statistical Concepts
Basic - Highly advanced/expert knowledge of statistical analysis concepts.
Preferred -
[ + ] Systems Trade Studies
Basic - Highly advanced, expert level of understanding and knowledge of trade study process (e.g., benchmarking, best value).
Preferred -
Education and/or Experience
Requires educational credentials meeting the Boeing classification standards for engineers and typically 20 years' experience in an engineering classification or educational credentials meeting the Boeing classification standards for engineers and either a Master's degree with 18 years' experience or a PhD degree with a minimum of 15 years' experience in an engineering classification.
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