About This Role
This Position is Contingent to Contract Award
Who We Are:
CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.
CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.
CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.
What We Have to Offer:
Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance
A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe
Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions
Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!
Summary
The Systems Engineer leads the requirements analysis, tracking and verification for hardware development programs. This position pertains primarily to the requirements definition and verification/validation segment of military simulator design/development and is largely project-oriented. Design organization, management, and testing are within the duties to achieve program completion.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Support planning functions and perform system engineering development tasks that includes system requirements and gap analysis, system design, system integration support, test procedure development, and requirement verification and validation
Work with the customer and subcontractors to ensure common understanding of system requirements and design
Provide input in developing new solutions, processes, or standards within area of responsibility including system architectures
Support development of program system risk and opportunities profile, and assist with mitigation and capture plans
Coordinate requirements compliance for the project
Coordinate with all engineering functions to ensure common understanding of system requirements and design
Coordinate with external partners and subcontractors / vendors to develop/define system requirements and technical capabilities
Perform system requirements analysis using DOORS or DOORS Next Generation and other system engineering tools
Create and update essential engineering documents including specifications, reports, plans, technical memos, program CDRLs, and presentations
Qualifications and Education Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Engineering, Math or other STEM field with a minimum of 7 years of prior relevant experience, or Graduate Degree in a Math, Science, Engineering or other STEM-related field with a minimum of 5 years of prior Defense contractor related experience
Comprehensive experience with system concept definition, requirement analysis, design, development, implementation, and verification
Significant Systems Engineering experience with the government program acquisition lifecycle, to include all phases of system engineering
Prefer experience with the development of proposals, including ability to identify, accurately scope and estimate new efforts as needed, development of technical volumes, basis of estimates, rationale, and other supporting documentation
Proven ability to develop innovative solutions both individually and as part of a team
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex information to technical and non-technical audiences including peers, management and customers
Strong MS-Office toolset skills
Preferred Skills
Knowledge of military simulator/training devices, current systems engineering methods, practices, and technologies
Experience using DOORS (NG and/or classic) and JIRA
SysML and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), especially with 3DS Cameo tools
Ability to clearly and effectively communicate with co-workers, company management & leadership, and customer representatives
Experience developing effective presentation materials and documentation for internal and customer-directed presentations
Understanding and application of Earned Value Management (EVM)
Programming and/or database administration (MATLAB, C-family, LabVIEW, Python, Jira, SQL, etc.)
Hands-on testing and debugging systems in a lab/test facility environment
Computer Aided Design (especially Solidworks or CREO)
Model-based definition and GD&T
Windchill toolset experience
Security Responsibilities
Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.
Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.
Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Must be able to perform normal office duties (sitting for long periods at a desk and in technical meetings)
Must be able to travel CONUS and to International sites for extended periods
Should be familiar with and be able to operate simulation training devices such as: full flight motion devices, maintenance training devices, entertainment devices and fixed base training devices.
Should be familiar with and able to support Engineering or Operations staff on any type and sub-component of training devices.
Must be able to climb stairs on a regular basis
Must be willing to work overtime
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
CAE USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including disability and protected veteran status, as defined under federal, state, or local laws.
Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter at any point in the recruitment process. If you need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at hrops@caemilusa.com
Position Type
RegularCAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.
Equal Opportunity EmployerCAE is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter at any point in the recruitment process. If you need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at CAECarrieres-Careers@cae.com.