Experienced Systems Engineer

Company: Boeing
Location: Columbia
Posted on: December 5, 2019

Job Description:

At Boeing, we are all innovators on a mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire. From the seabed to outer space, you------ll learn and grow, contributing to work that shapes the world. Find your future with us.The Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) capability is currently seeking experienced Systems Engineers to support a portfolio of fixed wing and weapons programs in St. Louis, MO and Oklahoma City, OK. We are specifically seeking engineers with experience in one of the following three disciplines: Reliability & Maintainability (R&M), Human Factors Engineering, and/or Onboard Health Management.Position Responsibilities:Reliability & Maintainability:

• Analyze customer provided requirements and develop Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) program plans that achieve customer objectives.
• Allocate top level requirements to design team specifications and work statements, develop R&M predictions, and track performance.
• Analyze system and individual part parameters to develop projected product utilization and calculate cumulative effect on final system reliability.
• Perform failure mode, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) and formulate mathematical models to identify items posing excessive failure and safety risks and propose changes in design and maintenance strategies.
• Support failure reporting and corrective action system (FRACAS) development and other root-cause corrective action (RCCA) activity.
• Participate on design teams, provide guidance and recommendations to designers and management to ensure reliability and maintainability objectives are achieved.Onboard Health Management:
  • Develop Testability models from schematics, FMECAs, ICDS and other available supplier documentation to assess compliance to customer fault detection/isolation requirements.
  • Run scripts to translate these models into a form that is executable logic on the aircraft, and simulates the intended operation.
  • Work with the real-time software development team to integrate the resulting executable applications into the Mission Computing hardware.
  • Establish and translate requirements into hardware and software for health management functionality.
  • Assess the effectiveness of system health technologies.Human Factors Engineering:
    • Requirements development; design documentation including software interface design/analyses and collaboration to facilitate equipment selection, design and arrangement.
    • Collaborate across Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and coordinate with the customer and user communities.
    • Apply a knowledge of military standards (such as MIL-STD-1472, MIL-STD-1474, MIL-STD-1787, MIL-STD-3009, MIL-STD-411F and JSSG-2010 requirements) to meet program requirements.
    • Demonstrate ideas to stakeholders through the use of tools such as concept models, sketches, wireframes and prototypes.
    • Define display and lighting requirements for human perception.
    • Conduct ergonomic assessments and applying knowledge of human physical limitations.Security Clearance Requirements:This position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship (post-start).Basic Qualifications (Required):
      • The ability to obtain a US Secret Security Clearance (post start).
      • Bachelors degree in an engineering or equivalent field.
      • 1+ year of experience in the aerospace or defense industry.
      • 3+ years of engineering experience.Preferred Qualifications:
        • 5+ years of Reliability and Maintainability (R&M), System Safety, and/or Human Factors experience.
        • Master's degree and course work in statistics.
        • Electrical Engineering degree or course work. --
        • Military experience, while not required is desirable.
        • Experience conducting Usability Studies, Workload Studies and Situation Awareness Studies.
        • Experience utilizing research methods and empirical statistics in a limited subject availability environment.
        • Experience in conducting goal-directed ,hierarchical, and critical tasks analysis.
        • Experience conducting traditional and multivariate anthropometric studies and measurement.
        • --Microsoft Excel, MATLAB/Simulink, Boeing RAMC, and Vanderbilt FACT run time reasoning tools.
        • --MIL-HDBK-217F Reliability Prediction Electronic Equipment.
        • --Rome Air Development Center AD-A153 744 Reliability Derating Procedure.
        • --MIL-STD-1629 Rev A Procedure for Performing a Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis.Typical Education/Experience:Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 5 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD, Master+3 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.Relocation:Relocation assistance is provided for qualified candidatesBoeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

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