UK Program Support Engineer

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Description

***Must have an active DOE Q or DOD Top Secret clearance. Active, meaning the individual granted a clearance is briefed and currently occupies a position for which the clearance is required.***

Leidos has an immedie need for a UK Program Support Engineer supporting the NNSA United Kingdom (UK) Program. This individual will provide technical, program and project management support to the UK Team Lead as well as liaison with other Defense Programs (DP), Nional Nuclear Security Administrion (NNSA), UK Program and Department of Defense (DoD) organizions. The work performed is extensive in technical scope and requires an experienced individual, with US (and preferred SLBM) weapons experience, with demonstred technical and program/project management expertise, ability to work in a highly dynamic environment, and interface with broad range of federal employees, senior military staff, UK personnel, and NNSA leadership. Broadly, duties include coordinion of day-to-day operions across the geographically dispersed M&O contractors, review and advise on mters pertaining to planning, integring, and executing policies, programs, and procedures for development of guidance for resolving issues reled to this weapons system. 

Locion: On-site the NNSA offices in Albuquerque NM.

Travel: Internional and domestic travel is required a high re of 25%:

• Monthly internional trips to the United Kingdom
• Domestic travel to NNSA sites with team for reviews and scope support

The Program Engineer will apply broad and diversified technical knowledge of US and UK nuclear weapons production, modernizion and associed program activities, and organizional relionships across NNSA, DoD and the UK. The selected individual will serve as the Senior Program Support Engineer supporting established US/UK nuclear weapon exchanges under the auspices of the 1958 Mutual Defense Agreement (MDA) and will be responsible for assisting federal team members in negotiing requirements/program planning and direction with the DoD (US Navy). You will also be engaged with the integrion of activities supporting the NNSA Nuclear Weapons Complex.

Technical support activities include:

• Assessing current and needed capability and capacity of the NNSA weapons production complex for the assigned weapon program and coordines necessary facility and resource planning based on this informion
• Provide experience-driven guidance to support development of new or revised policies, requirements, and procedures for US compibility assessment, qualificion, production and procurement activities
• Provides direction and guidance to design agencies, production agencies and various NNSA offices regarding weapon program workload commitment, including the allocion of funds, to support all approved planned activities and in the day-to-day resolution of design, production and logistical issues
• Interfaces with design agency and production agency senior program leadership personnel in ensuring clear understanding of programmic commitments and performance stus
• Ensures nuclear weapons complex integrion in support of weapon program commitments and deliverables and is accountable to NNSA, US Navy and UK senior leadership for performance and achievement of programmic commitments
• Independently provides approprie coordinion and interpretion of NNSA guidance, develops new initiives in support of established program objectives, and is considered an expert with regard to the assigned program.
• Manages UK ATOMIC/US RESTRICTED DATA informion, consistent with Joint Atomic Informion Exchange Group, DOE Orders, and local procedures for the control of classified and UK accountable nuclear informion.

In this role, the individual will coordine with NNSA federal and contractor programmic and technical staff, and Management and Opering (M&O) contractor personnel as required.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Interfaces with Design Agency (DA) and Production Agency (PA) senior program leadership personnel in ensuring clear understanding of programmic commitments and performance stus
• Ensures nuclear weapons complex integrion in support of weapon program commitments and deliverables and is accountable to NNSA, US Navy, and UK senior leadership for performance and achievement of programmic commitments
• Proficiency in the transition of requirements, interfaces, linkages, and technical risk mitigion activities associed with program scope into an integred schedule
• Demonstred ability sufficient to assess and provide program and technical management knowledge and capabilities to advise FPO on execution of cost, scope, and schedule for major system acquisitions, and to represent, within program guidance, the NNSA’s program interests and positions in interactions with other agencies and corpore entities
• Apply systems engineering principles for the development and maintenance of an integred program baseline
• Attending and participing in Joint Re-entry Working Group and subcommittee meetings (joint DoD/NNSA/UK) and within guidance provided by the Lead Federal Program Engineer (PE) and/or Federal Program Manager (FPM)
• Supporting special topic engagements as assigned
• Contributing/Leading assessments of current and needed capability and capacity of the NNSA weapons production complex for the Weapons Program and recommend necessary facility and resource planning based on this informion
• Assist Federal Program Office (FPO) with implemention of the Program Execution Instruction
• Coordine FPO Program and Technical Management products and deliverables
• Assist with FPO Organizion structuring and Roles and Responsibilities
• Tracking and managing Defense Programs, and DoD actions and inquires
• Establish and manage FPO programmic plans and merials as required for program execution
• Provide programmic interface with DoD, Design Agencies and Production Agencies

Required Qualificions:

• Active DOE Q clearance or active DOD Top Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science, however, a degree in Business, Program/Project Management, or closely reled field with relevant experience will be considered with 8+ years of technical experience in weapons/nuclear weapons and delivery plforms, including program/project management or systems engineering, nuclear weapons system sustainment or acquisition or a Master’s degree in engineering or science, however, a degree in Business, Program/Project Management, or closely reled field with relevant experience will be considered with 6+ years of technical experience in weapons/nuclear weapons and delivery plforms, including program/project management or systems engineering, nuclear weapons system sustainment or acquisition
• Demonstred technical knowledge of nuclear weapons, ideally SLBMs
• Experience managing interfaces between NNSA/DOE, Nuclear Nional Laborories and Nuclear Production Agencies, and DoD
• NNSA/DoD Interagency experience
• Experience managing interdisciplinary teams
• Knowledge of program and project management/scheduling tools and techniques and approprie expertise with the Microsoft Office suite (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Project, and Excel)
• Ability to travel as business needs require, internionally and domestically (up to 25%)

Preferred Qualificions:

• Knowledge of NNSA and Navy Stregic Systems Programs
• Knowledge of the substantive nure of NNSA Nuclear Weapons programs and activities; missions, policies, and objectives; management principles and processes; and the analytical and evaluive methods and techniques for assessing program development or execution and improving organizional effectiveness and efficiency with emphasis of 6.X process and Defense Programs Business Process System
• Demonstred experience researching and analyzing complex informion and assessing program performance
• Experience managing Federal Program Office (FPO) programmic plans and merials required for program execution
• Excellent written and verbal communicion skills with demonstred experience in writing and editing briefings and reports for senior and executive leadership, including the ability to remain a professional demeanor when presented with issues, and ability to work on multiple issues once and prioritize workload

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