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GEOINT Flight Engineer

Location Chantilly, Virginia Category Engineering, Technology, & Science Job Type Full time Job Id R2096811 Posted Date 01/30/2025
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Title:

GEOINT Flight Engineer

Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

  • Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
  • Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
  • Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Technical Advising on GEOINT Mission Systems: Serves as the government’s technical advisor for GEOINT mission systems, from spacecraft bus and payloads, command and control and processing systems, to various operational constructs
  • Identifying Mission Needs: Assist the government in identifying mission needs, operational concepts, and requirements to effectively influence acquisition and budget efforts
  • Assess integration activities in the context of cross-systems dependencies (technical, resource, and schedule) and present unbiased findings, analysis, and recommendations to government managers
  • Technical Assessments: Provide “ground truth” technical assessments of project or system reviews, milestones, and/or decision gates; identify risks, issues, opportunities, mitigations; represent the government’s interests with other stakeholders
  • Systems Engineering and Integration Studies: Support government requests for systems engineering and integration studies, process analysis and design, project management assessments, etc.; provide analysis, recommendations, and take necessary actions
  • Government Staff Work Needs: Support the development or assessment of system Concept of Operations, Requirements Documents, Test Plans, Contract Statements of Work, Systems Engineering Plans, as well as contribute to the “staff work” needs of the government (e.g., action items, weekly reports, etc.) to include support to government acquisitions and source selections
  • Collaboration with Customers: Proactively collaborate with government personnel and other contractors (often across multiple sites and organizational levels) to provide unbiased analysis and recommendations on courses of actions to address risks/issues or approaches to exploit an opportunity

Work Environment:

  • Location: On-site
  • Travel Requirements: Minimal
  • Working Hours: Standard

Qualifications:

Required:

  • Clearance: TS/SCI with a Polygraph
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM)
  • Experience: 3 years relevant experience
  • Spacecraft Systems and Subsystems: Technical knowledge of spacecraft systems (bus, payload) and subsystems (attitude and control systems, propulsion, life support systems, etc.), ground communications and mission data processing systems, space vehicle mission planning and command and control systems
  • Orbital Mechanics: Knowledge of orbital mechanics and associated analytical tools
  • GEOINT Mission: Experience with GEOINT mission (ground and space) systems
  • Mission Readiness: Familiar with mission readiness process, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria
  • Self-starter: Forward thinking self-starter who proactively addresses customer requirements without supervision; readily defines solutions for broad, abstract topics
  • Collaboration and Coordination: Polished, persuasive communicator (written/verbal), master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
  • Interpersonal Skills: Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment—confident interacting with highest levels of government senior executives
  • Digital Engineering and MBSE: Familiar with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Agile development, cloud technologies

Desired:

  • Spacecraft Operations: Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft operator, spacecraft engineer or ground systems operator, familiar with space operations/policies.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you’re excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture.  These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company.  That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together. 

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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