EUCOM Joint Fires Systems Engineer

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The MITRE EUCOM and AFRICOM Regional Operations Department (N) is seeking energetic and talented professionals to join our team working across our sponsors in Europe, Africa, and the US to tackle complex problems. We work to solve the most challenging international security problems across Europe and Africa by strategically partnering with the Department of War to apply advanced capabilities and technology to real world operational needs in the near term and strategically positioning to address longer term critical challenges.

Roles & Responsibilities:

You will be part of a MITRE team working directly with US European Command to plan and integrate cutting edge technology and advanced operational concepts to continually enhance the command’s ability to plan and execute all domain fires informing development, deployment, and assessment of capability.

Selected candidates will demonstrate the following:

Domain / Technical competence.

Demonstrate strong familiarity and skill in one or more of the following areas:

• Lead operational planning, target development and operational employment of fires.
• Integrate Fires capabilities across all phases of Joint and Combined operations, including cross-CCMD and NATO effects coordination.
• Apply systems engineering concepts to analyze, design, and improve operational systems and processes.
• Assess current operational capabilities and processes against future Joint operational needs; identify shortfalls in CONOPS/CONEMPs; develop functional and technical requirements; evaluate potential solutions; and recommend mitigations to address risks and capability gaps.
• Provide systems engineering analysis for systems and capabilities related to planning, integration, mission analysis, requirements analysis, command and control requirements, and operational dependencies.
• Advise on Fires processes, the Joint Warfighting Concept, current and emerging Fires systems, and operational planning processes and tools to enhance mission effectiveness.

Strategic Leadership.

Working with the Task Leader, Project Leader and Department Leadership to:

• Develop and shape MITRE task, in close collaboration with sponsors, to focus on mission critical outcomes.
• Serve as a trusted advisor, develop strong collaborative relationships with senior USEUCOM sponsors, and help sponsors create executable approaches to complex problems in support of their objectives.
• Define task level outcomes aligning sponsor challenges and MITRE competencies ensuring FFRDC appropriate impactful tasks are defined to support critical sponsor outcomes
• Actively collaborate with other MITRE projects and sponsor activities, to ensure maximum value and impact across MITRE’s sponsors.
• Collaborate across the MITRE and government enterprise to shape and accelerate capability delivery to USEUCOM.

Interpersonal skills

• Be a proactive team member and partner closely to support team leadership and staff in task execution
• Present information to both senior military leaders and action officers.
• Identify operational and engineering challenges, potential solutions, and communicate project goals and impacts clearly and effectively.

Collaboration

• Work within a team environment that leverages a robust network of MITRE and other professional connections to engage and collaborate with engineers and planners, subject matter experts, international program (foreign military sales) specialists, and defense acquisition professionals.
• Leverage a pipeline of remote and local MITRE technical expertise, capabilities from the MITRE Platforms, and transitioned IR&D into project delivery when appropriate.
• Partner closely with non-MITRE developers, SETA teammates, and acquisition representatives

Flexibility.

• Modify and alter course as the environment and sponsor priorities shift. Understand the power of reach-back and be an effective conduit to bring the talent forward to execute at the right time.

Senior Sponsor Experience.

• Comfortably and respectfully engage with both US and foreign nations’ senior military leaders and engineers as well as industry leadership.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years with a Master’s degree; or 3 years with a PhD; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, such as Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Computer), Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related fields
• Significant experience with Fires processes, the Joint Warfighting Concept, current/emerging Fires systems, and operational planning processes/tools
• Experience providing systems engineering analysis for systems and capabilities in areas such as (but not limited to) planning, integration, mission analysis, requirements analysis, command and control requirements, and dependencies.
• Ability to assess current operational capabilities and processes against future Joint operational needs, identify shortfalls in operational CONOPS/CONEMPs, develop functional/technical requirements, evaluate potential solutions and make recommendations to mitigate risks/shortfalls.
• Demonstrated previous team leadership experience
• Prior experience with US Department of War systems of systems integration
• Active TS/SCI security clearance
• Per the Government's eligibility requirements for a clearance, Citizenship is required.
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a related field Systems Engineering)
• Experience in Combatant Command operations and the joint warfighter environment
• Hands-on experience with Model Based Systems Engineering Tools
• Experience with Combatant Command capability development and/or operations
• Experience with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) organizations, processes, and systems
• Five years’ experience in Command and Control processes, architectures, and systems.
• Effective and influential oral communications skills
• Strong written communications skills
• Additional clearances: NATO SECRET

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$, - $, - $, Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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