Senior Specialist, Systems Engineer

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Job description

Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Systems Engineer

Job Code: 16677

Job Location: Salt Lake City-UT

Job Schedule: 9/80, every other Friday off

L3Harris' Communication Systems segment is currently seeking a Lead, Systems Engineer to join our team. This position will be based at our Salt Lake City, UT facility.

Position Overview:

The Systems Engineer will be responsible for the life-cycle support of data link (wideband, narrowband and/or SATCOM) systems from conceptual development through product phase-out. This includes proposal support, requirements analysis and management, task planning, technical documentation (including generation of Statements of Work and specifications), design oversight participation, design synthesis in a multi-functional engineering environment, build and test support, subcontract control, risk management input, integration and verification test support, system deployment support and in-house technical support during the operational life-cycle of the system.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Performs research and development in assigned engineering discipline
• Assists in the planning and conducting of technical projects or portions of projects
• Employs best practices, tools and techniques and applies processes and methodologies selected to design and develop new products or modify existing products
• Assists in the capture and/or management of customer and derived requirements, decomposition and assignment of requirements to appropriate functional areas of responsibility, insuring traceability from a verification test matrix back to original customer and system level derived requirements
• Provides support to lead engineers in developing technical specifications, interface control documents, test plans and procedures, configuration analysis and processing solutions, and test conformance to specifications
• Reviews literature, patents and current industry practices of relevance to assigned project
• Ensures technical performance, quality, and adherence to schedule
• Follows processes in conformance with established policies and objectives
• May coordinate the efforts of technical support personnel
• May provide technical consultation to internal organizations and/or customers
• May evaluate vendor capabilities to provide required products or services
• May participate in design reviews
• Ability to obtain a US DoD Security Clearance

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior systems engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 7 years' experience with engineering design concepts and engineering practices and procedures required to develop, test and deploy systems.
• Experience in product development a plus (preferably in military application environment).
• Presentation and communication skills (verbal/written/visual)
• Problem solving skills and the ability to meet critical deadlines
• Understanding in coordination of project(s) and efforts of technical support personnel
• Ability to productively contribute work, ideas and collaboration as part of a team
• Ability, willingness to travel when required to support customer installation, demonstrations and general field support

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