Tharros is seeking a Lead Project Engineer to provide senior technical leadership in support of systems engineering efforts at NSWCDD in Dahlgren, VA. In this role, you will lead cross-functional engineering activities across weapon systems, fire control, cybersecurity, and combat systems integration. You will guide day-to-day technical execution for strategic and surface weapon system programs, helping translate government requirements into clear, actionable engineering tasks for the contractor team.
Projects include systems engineering support of a variety of weapons systems, weapons control systems, and warfare systems.
Responsibilities
- Projects include systems engineering support of a variety of weapons systems, weapons control systems, and warfare systems.
- Provide project engineering and technical leadership across all SOW task areas
- Coordinate systems engineering efforts spanning weapons, combat, fire control, and cyber domains
- Lead identification, analysis, and resolution of complex systems engineering issues involving DoD surface and subsurface Navy weapon systems
- Direct system integration activities across multiple Navy surface and submarine platforms
- Review and approve technical deliverables for quality and compliance prior to government submission
- Coordinate with government TPOCs on technical direction, task prioritization, and engineering issues
- Support development and maintenance of the Integrated Master Schedule for engineering tasks
- Mentor junior and journeyman engineers across technical disciplines
- Lead technical risk identification and mitigation planning
- Support DevSecOps pipeline integration and full stack software engineering activities as required
- Active SECRET clearance; ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, scientific, or technical discipline and 10 years of relevant experience; OR 15 years of experience relevant to SOW technical disciplines
- 10 years of systems engineering, design, and development experience with weapon, combat, or fire control systems
- Experience with identification, analysis, and resolution of complex systems engineering issues involving DoD cyber situational awareness, surface, and subsurface Navy weapon systems
- 6 years of concurrent, direct experience providing project engineering and technical leadership for a DoD enterprise program or Navy program such as SLBM, Aegis, or Tomahawk
- Experience with system integration across multiple Navy surface and submarine platforms and operational weapon systems
- Experience with DevSecOps pipeline and full stack software engineering
- Experience with Integrated Logistics Support, Test and Evaluation, or software engineering disciplines
- Familiarity with DoD enterprise systems integration
- Prior NSWCDD Dahlgren Division project engineering experience desired
- Experience with the program offices and systems described in the description section
