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COVD-19 Vaccination is a requirement for this assignment. However, accommodations may be made for those with medical or religious reasons who cannot obtain a vaccine.
Our client is a world leader and premier innovator in aerospace, with over 100,000 top talent employees providing the most advanced products and technologies in the industry. With numerous awards and recognitions, they offer continuous growth, learning, and development for their employees.
Since 1980 APR Consulting, Inc. has provided professional recruiting and contingent workforce solutions to a diverse mix of clients, industries, and skill sets nationwide.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Act as a ground systems engineer in support of the ICESat2 Satellite program particularly with respect to ongoing Tech Refresh efforts.
- Support update of Test Plans and Test Procedures for any new features or updates to the ground system
- Interface with ground system subcontractor in support of the rolling tech refresh effort
- Provide mission operations support to the ICESat2 Satellite program including flight control and mission planning.
- Support system maintenance activities such as procedure updates, architecture upkeep, and formal program milestones.
- Work with systems engineers to conduct anomaly review board investigations as necessary.
- Conduct testing using simulators and resolve discrepancies.
- Develop and test command procedures, telemetry pages, and other products derived from vendor provided documentation
- Support operations readiness activities including configuration control board and other customer meetings
- Monitor vehicle state of health across all subsystems and perform short and long-term telemetry trending.
- Track space vehicle configuration, to include both hardware, software, and configurable item parameters.
- Make modifications to existing operations procedures to incorporate lessons learned from in-flight performance. Develop new procedures as required.
- Provide status reporting through both the functional and program reporting branches.
- Maintain standards associated with the established Integrated/Developmental Operations functional group processes.
- Support internal and external customer meetings through proficient verbal and documented (MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel) communications.
- May require travel ~ 10% of the time for support of customer or backup mission operations center.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or related discipline and 5 years’ experience; 3 years with Masters; or PhD
- Ability to work within a group of diversified individuals with varying backgrounds to achieve mission success.
- Experience writing technical documents for external customers
- Possess a working knowledge of ground system hardware
- Experience with writing or updating of ground system test plans and procedures
- Outstanding verbal and written communications skills, including ability to make persuasive presentations to external customers at milestone reviews
Preferred Qualifications:
- Lead a diverse team of engineers/operators
- Knowledge and experience with PERL programming language
- Experience with writing ground system test plans and procedures from scratch
- Experience with Front End Processors and Encryptors
- Experience with both Linux and Windows operating systems
- Provide mentoring, guidance and manage tasks for the operations team.
- Ability to task and manage a group of diversified individuals with varying backgrounds to achieve mission success.
- Prior experience conducting on-orbit mission operations and resolving satellite and ground system anomalies.
- Experience working with mission operations and customer organizations of NASA Goddard Customer
- Experience with the LEOStar Bus or MEV
- Experience working on government systems and/or government process environment
- Experience with at least one S/C Subsystem (ADCS, CDH, COMM, EPDS, Thermal, FSW).
- Prior experience with ITOS ground control software
- Experience with MAESTRO command and control software
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
We pay weekly every Friday, have direct deposit, and offer a competitive benefits package: Medical, Dental Vision, 401k plan, etc.
Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity! If you feel your experience is the match for this position, please apply today and join our team.
We look forward to working with you!
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
“APR Consulting, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications for all positions equally without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status or any disability as provided in the Americans with Disabilities Act. APR Consulting, Inc. participates in E-Verify. Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States.”
E-Verify Statement:
APR participates in the E-Verify Employment Eligibility Program.
