Reliability and Maintainability Engineer

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Apply an understanding of DoD, AF, and common engineering/scientific principles, processes, and procedures to improve performance and sustainability of existing and future AF and joint service weapon systems.
• Assist in performing material solution analyses leading up to design reviews. 
• Assist in producing or supporting development of draft documentation and presentation materials as requested or necessitated by programmatic limits based on cost, schedule, and performance.
• Assist in developing and collecting technical data and inputs for staff summary packages and executive briefings to support coordination and signature of all associated documents for milestone approvals.
• Assist in translating production and operational requirements into design, fabrication and testing objectives.
• Provide analysis and recommendations to systems suitability for installation, functionality and reliability of systems and readiness of existing manufacturing processes.
• Attend all technical reviews and provide technical advice on the path forward to installation of the new hardware and software into the system.
• Support and assist performance effectiveness, cost effectiveness, cost performance, life-cycle cost, producibility, maintainability, supportability, reliability, technical and schedule risk assessments, and scheduling trade-off studies.
• Assist in reviewing system specific test plans and participate in system, subsystem, and component testing.
• Assist in developing an effective Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) process that ensures the user’s weapon system R&M requirements are clearly defined and achieved with agreement by the mission partner in support of the user's requirements.

Required Experience

• BA/BS degree in an ABET-accredited engineering discipline and ten (10) years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, three (3) of which must be in the DoD 
• Independently demonstrate proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, etc.) & Adobe Acrobat
• U.S. Citizenship required; Ability to obtain/maintain a Secret clearance required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge in the R&M process which aligns with program acquisition, sustainment, and disposal scope and strategy, and be clearly evident within the IMP/IMS.  The R&M process shall clearly show the application of the integrity approach to reliable and maintainable design, and the tasks of the IMP/IMS shall identify incremental R&M achievement verification at all significant program milestones.
• Knowledge of Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) and reliability standard reports.
• Ability to work with G081 database to check failure reporting from the field; and assist with handling all DRs ensuring proper classification and adequate detail for resolution.