Our client, a leading federal defense contractor has a 6+ month contract in Manassas, VA for an Engineering Support Specialist to participates in engineering reviews and provides supportability recommendations to ensure custom electronics are easy to repair and replace.

Responsibilities:

- Develops new engineering documentation such as but not limited to:
1. Level of Repair Analysis (LORA)
2. Sparing Recommendations
3. Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability Analysis
4. Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis
- Validate procedures during testing events in the lab, sometimes requiring shift work to complete.
- Develop Provisioning Technical Data Packages (PTD)
- Reviews Engineering Change Orders and communicates Fleet impacts to appropriate team members.
- Develops ICAPS data packages for submission to the government.
- Develops design change notices as a result of ECOs and submits these notices to appropriate personnel.
- Uses EPDM to pull BOMs, review BOMs, and create BOMs.
- Works with Engineering Leads to ensure BOMs are updated and accurate based on reviews of engineering drawings.
- Tracks Onboard Repair Parts, Installation and Check Out Spares, as well as construction spares for various undersea programs.
- Use sound configuration management principles to ensure document configuration management is maintained.
- Uses Windchill to perform Reliability Analysis of hardware in development, develops reliability block diagrams, and develops reliability reports based on this analysis.
- Develops Reliability Centered Maintenance documentation to include but not limited to: Functional Block Diagrams, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Maintenance Requirement Cards (MRC) and Maintenance Index Pages (MIP)
- Develops reliability predictions for the purpose of calculating Operational Availability (Ao), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), and failure rates
- Develops maintainability predictions for the purpose of calculating Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)
- Communicate project/program issues to management, as necessary
- Participate in various technical and program meetings on a weekly basis

Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- Must be able to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance
- Requires a Bachelor-s or Technology degree in Engineering or a related specialized area/field, or equivalent (4 years job-related experience). Requires an additional 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years of job-related experience.
- Expert experience with Interactive Computer Aided Provisioning System (ICAPS)
- Supportability experience with submarine combat systems
- Familiarity with GIEA-STD-0007
- Experience with XML/UML
- Reliability Analysis, MIL HDBK 217
- Experience with Windchill or Opus
- Experienced reading and understanding with Bill of Materials (BOM) and schematics
- Must have strong organizational and analytical skills as well as practical problem-solving and decision making-skills
- Ability to work well under pressure and be able to manage multiple projects and issues simultaneously.-
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Some travel to support Navy customers