Staff Engineer, Industrial (R6037)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own sustainment decision analysis for fielded aircraft systems, including maintenance-level determinations; repair-versus-replace, repair-location, and repair-capability assessments; spares optimization;
• Build and maintain integrated fleet-readiness and availability models that link reliability, maintainability, maintenance demand, repair turnaround time, inventory and supply lead times, labor availability, operational…
• Develop repair-versus-replace and repair-network business cases that assess discard, organizational/field-level repair, depot or centralized repair, supplier return, and redesign alternatives using repair yield,…
• Analyze maintenance records, work orders, failure and repair history, supply and logistics data, labor data, and fleet operations data to identify recurring maintenance burdens, demand drivers, capacity constraints,…
• Develop demand forecasts, spares recommendations, and provisioning strategies using failure rates, consumption history, repair turnaround times, operational tempo, lead times, service-level targets, and deployment…
• Perform manpower, workload, capacity, and skill-mix analyses to define staffing needs, identify workload constraints and maintenance bottlenecks, and improve repair throughput and maintenance effectiveness.
• Evaluate investments in support equipment, test equipment, tooling, facilities, and repair capability by quantifying capacity, utilization, cost, risk reduction, readiness impact, return on investment, and total…
• Develop lifecycle-cost models and economic trade studies to inform sustainment planning, maintenance-program changes, provisioning decisions, repair-network strategy, and leadership investment decisions.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Operations Research, Data Analytics, or a related technical discipline; equivalent practical experience considered.
• 5+ years of experience in industrial engineering, sustainment, logistics, supportability, maintenance, operations research, fleet operations, aviation sustainment, defense logistics, or other complex hardware-support…
• Demonstrated experience using maintenance, reliability, repair, inventory, supply-chain, production, fleet-operations, or fielded-hardware data to develop quantitative analyses and recommendations related to…
• Experience performing repair-versus-replace, make-versus-buy, repair-capability, or comparable sustainment trade studies;
• Proficiency with SQL, Python, Power BI, Tableau, Excel, R, MATLAB, or comparable tools for data analysis, modeling, visualization, and reporting.
• Ability to integrate technical, operational, supply-chain, labor, and financial inputs into practical, data-driven recommendations for complex sustainment decisions while balancing analytical rigor, data limitations,…
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to work with engineering, fleet support, supply chain, manufacturing, finance, operations, and analytics teams;
• Familiarity with aviation, defense, aerospace manufacturing, unmanned systems, aircraft sustainment and deployed hardware systems.