Engineering Jobs in Ferndale, MI

As a Platform Integration Engineer you will provide project management, system engineering, and platform interface support to the office of the Product Manager (PdM) Vehicle Protection System (VPS) to assist in fielding vehicle survivability technologies to the Army.

Essential Job Functions: Conducts, monitors, directs, and coordinates research, design, engineer development, and engineering activities for PdM VPS, which are applied across vehicle system lines for fielded components, subsystems, and total systems.

Conducts research and trade off analysis; executes market surveys; investigates technology transfer/insertion opportunities, requirements, and specification development.

Performs contract and test monitoring, failure analysis, cost reduction analysis, production engineering, configuration management, and technical field support.

Participates in the preparation of program plans, documentation, schedules, budgets, and milestones necessary for the overall planning and execution of the assigned program.

Develops, reviews, evaluates, and makes recommendations concerning acquisition documents, priorities, schedules, cost estimates, budgets, milestones and other program matters bearing on project/program assignments.

Provides input to the application and integration of improved designs into the system.

Reviews and advises on preliminary design studies for new or improved items, components, structures, and major subsystems, as well as engineering changes affecting system characteristics.

Assists in the preparation of test planning, observes tests, and analyzes test results to determine adequacy of system and subsystem performance, recommending corrective actions for deficiencies.

Assures that system and sub-system components, structures, software, electronics, vulnerability/survivability elements are compatible with each other and the host platform.

Ensures that necessary engineering trade-offs in the vehicle/system design are beneficial to overall system performance.

Performs and evaluates engineering studies, such as operational and functional characteristics pertaining to assigned systems/ components.

This position is at a client site in Warren, Michigan.

Candidates must be willing to perform this role 100% on-site at the client location.

Required Skills: Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S.

Citizenship is required.

Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering plus a minimum of 8 years of experience.

Working knowledge of integration activities required for DoD ground combat vehicles.

Project management experience.

Self-starter with the ability to work without direct supervision.

Ability to daily provide high quality support and customer service to the Government customer in a high visibility position.

Excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Strong interpersonal abilities, including ability to tactfully negotiate resolution to competing programmatic demands and requirements.

A strong customer service mentality.

Comfortable with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project.

Desired Skills: Electrical, computer, and/or systems engineering experience on DoD ground combat vehicles and/or DoD survivability systems.

Experience working with DEVCOM GVSC, PEO GCS, DEVCOM C5ISR, and/or related PM offices within the Army Futures Command and/or Army Materiel Command.

Understanding of the Army acquisition process.

Experience with in-vehicle data networks.

Experience with U.S.

DoD communications equipment or communication equipment integration.

System integration experience on DoD vehicles systems.

Provide engineering and project management support to DoD program offices overseeing the development and integration of C4ISR technologies onto military ground vehicle platforms.

Essential Job Functions: Work with various project management offices (vehicle platform offices and C5ISR system offices) in order to evaluate and synchronize program acquisition schedules, integration costs and other requirements pertaining to Army and/or Marine Corps network development.

Develop proposed high-level architectures and strategies for the implementation of C5ISR systems onto ground vehicles.

Author contractual statements of work (SoW) to define vehicle system integration efforts.

Represent the DoD vehicle PM office by overseeing and managing efforts by contractors in their execution of the SoW.

Assist in adjudicating programmatic issues for the ground vehicle office.

Represent our DoD customer while coordinating and interacting with PEOs/PMs, ASN(RDA) G-3/5/7, MCTSSA, CD&I ATEC, TCM and other organizations outside of the ground vehicle office.

Assist in ensuring end-to-end program integration of the communications network to include interoperability testing and certification, safety confirmation, test, kit procurement and logistics integration.

Develop and synchronizes network architectures with Project Management offices for future network capability sets.

Assist in developing and presenting regular status briefs to Project Manager Offices and to Program Executive Offices.

Perform project management duties and create related documents to support these efforts.

Establish and facilitate a standard approach to Cyber Security certification of systems on ground vehicle platforms in order to reduce platform IA certification and test burden.

Serve as assistant advisor to the program office for the integration of current and future DoD communications and network technologies.

Perform management and oversight of the contractor development of vehicle network while assisting with integration of Government furnished systems.

Required Skills: Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S.

Citizenship is required.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering plus a minimum of year 8 years of experience with engineering of networked systems.

Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

Network architecture development experience.

Project management experience.

Self-starter with the ability to work without direct supervision.

Ability to work within a team context to both direct and contribute to vehicle system integration and development efforts.

Ability to daily provide high quality support and customer service to the Government customer in a high visibility position.

Excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Strong interpersonal abilities, including ability to tactfully negotiate resolution to competing programmatic demands and requirements.

A strong customer service mentality.

Comfortable with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project.

Work with user representatives and formal DoD requirements documents in order to determine the requirements for a system development or integration effort.

Ability to travel to various customer and contractor facilities and test centers (estimated approx 10% travel).

This position is at a client site.

Candidates must be willing to perform this role 100% on-site.

Desired Skills: Working knowledge of C5ISR, Vetronics and related software on DoD ground combat vehicles.

Electrical, computer, and/or systems engineering experience on DoD ground combat vehicles and/or DoD C5ISR systems.

Experience working with MCTSSA, PEO LS, MCSC or equivalent Army organizations; GVSC, PEO CS&CSS, PEO C3T and/or related PM offices within the Army Materiel Command.

Understanding of the DoD acquisition process.

Experience with in-vehicle data networks.

Experience with U.S.

DoD communications equipment.

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Why join us? Competitive Base Salary! 401K match, PTO, and excellent benefits! Accelerated Career Growth! Job Details Job Responsibilities Supervise a team of engineers and designers providing daily tasks and assignments Provide training and guidance to junior engineers to perform their job tasks Provide weekly project updates to management Be able to do perform engineering calculations of drives, shafts, cylinders, and bearings.

Provide input to drawing development and technical support to the engineering team Must be able to create a working solution to technical issues in a timely manner.

Be able to check drawings or designate a checker within the group to check drawings before sending to the shop or sub-fabrication source.

Must be able to provide AutoCAD conveyor layouts to meet the customer JPH requirements.

Understand basic structural / header steel design and coordinate with the Customer and Structural Engineering service provider.

Work with the P.E.

for state certified drawings of all structural and civil drawings.

Be able to provide and create ABM’s, Work Orders for the shop and purchasing.

Answer all questions from purchasing and the shop regarding the orders.

After award review and track project requirements Pre/Post Award Project submittals.

Work with the project manager on-site as required.

Be able to visit jobsites for meetings and field checks as requested.

Assist project manager and superintendent as needed quoting additional work requirement.

Maintain updated task list for the project being worked on Assist the project manager with tasks as required Must be able to provide chain pulls on CP Plus with drive balancing and drive drop out capability based upon the customer requirements.

Provide FMEA and FEA documentation to outside source per the customer requirements.

Maintain the knowledge of the latest specifications for the customer and keep up to date on the revisions as they are released from the customer.

Be able to work with and monitor engineering sub-contractor selected for the project.

Provide start-up assistance as required to the project manager and superintendent.

Education Requirements Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and/or 10 years automotive conveyor work experience.

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