About the position
Ready to launch your career? Be part of the next generation of access to space at one of the World's Premier Gateways to Space! RGNext employees open portals to space by providing operation and sustainment of mission-critical systems that launch and track Department of Defense, civil, commercial, and international space launch rockets! We also provide U.S. defense and space awareness through ballistic missile testing, guided weapon and aeronautical tests and experiments to defend the United States to ensure our nation's safety. As an RGNext employee, you will join a team of smart, creative, and highly motivated employees who take pride in their work and in the mission and who enjoy developing, sustaining and delivering world class solutions! If you are seeking to work in a dynamic environment and want to be part of the World's Premier Gateway to Space, this may be the opportunity you've been looking for! This position is located on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It is an unaccompanied position (no family accommodations or pets). Benefits of this unique location include free housing, three meals a day and potential for overseas tax incentives.
Responsibilities
- Work primarily with software and systems on the land and sea-based Flight Safety systems located in the tropical Marshall Islands and aboard the USAV Worthy.
- Develop and maintain the software configurations used in mission operations.
- Become the subject matter expert on Safety System software functionality, which is based on the Common Display System, and Telemetry decommutation, in particular using the NetAcquire H30.
- Operate, configure, troubleshoot, and document the systems for mission support, including post-mission analysis and documentation.
- Support mission operations on Kwajalein Atoll or aboard the vessel USAV Worthy, with potential travel to Hawaii and CONUS.
- Participate or lead troubleshooting efforts, fault detection, fault isolation, repair, testing, and reporting.
- Propose, plan, manage and execute improvement projects, interfacing with government, vendors, cyber, information services, telemetry, communications, supply chain and contracts.
- Author and contribute to mission preparation and execution documentation, interfacing directly with Reagan Test Site (RTS) customers.
- Contribute to overseeing other tasks related to property, calibration, secure room, facilities, and COMSEC.
- Provide support for RF Safety to include surveys, analysis, and incident investigation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Ability to lead or participate in capturing, defining and evaluating technical requirements.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Microsoft Project.
- Motivated with the ability to identify issues and improvement opportunities.
- Experience in dealing with ambiguity and competing interests.
- Ability to prioritize and manage concurrently running projects.
- Able to perform activities on towers and elevated structures up to 90' using the proper PPE.
- Familiar with routed and switched IP networking desired.
- Ability to work at sea on the USAV Worthy for multi-week stretches.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in a technical leadership role on a project, team or staff level.
- Experience working in a safety-oriented system or product line.
- Exposure to requirements capture and life cycle development tools (Jira, Gitlab, DOORs, SharePoint).
- Exposure to Six Sigma, FMEA, FMECA, FHA, CMMI, INCOSI or other engineering related practices.
- Software development experience.
- PMP, Security+, Network+, CCENT, and/or CCNA certifications.
- Experience with technical military systems such as avionics, communications, radars, and electro-mechanical control systems.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurances.
- Generous Paid Time Off and holiday pay.
- Retirement savings plan with a company match and vesting on day one.
- Flexible scheduling.
- Access to on-base fitness centers.
