Acquisition and Contract Support Engineer

Job ID: 2502557

Location: CHANTILLY, VA, US

Date Posted: 2025-02-26

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

SAIC is seeking an Acquisition Systems Engineer to provide systems engineering and technical advisory (SETA) services to our Government customer in a dynamic System Program Office (SPO) at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). This position will support acquisition and programmatic activities for a major satellite program. The job requires familiarity with NRO organization, processes, and satellite systems.
Job Responsibilities:

• Provide expert advice to the Program Director, Program Managers and Contracting Staff regarding acquisition strategies, contracting, budgeting, and execution.
• Support the Contract Officer Technical Representatives (COTRs) and Developers by coordinating with other acquisition domain SMEs and program stakeholders to develop, modify, and maintain contract documentation (award fee, period of performance extensions, and admin modifications etc.).
• Provide contracting assistance to technical personnel involved in development of statement of work or data deliverable requirements for variety of pre-award and/or post-award procurement actions (e.g., SOW, CDRLs, Incentive Plans, etc.).
• Assist with contract negotiation, price reasonableness determination, administration, and termination procedures.
• Provide acquisition support to Government customer for IC and DoD programmatic processes.
• Develop documents and briefings to communicate work status, recommendations, and approach.
• Draft technical evaluations and function as an advisor in source selections.
• Provide technical and programmatic assessments of contractor designs and milestone reviews to assess progress, risks and issues, and the ability to achieve mission requirements.
• Monitor & evaluate contractor performance for compliance with contract terms/conditions & ensures timely submission of contract deliverables.
• Review Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) deliverables to ensure content, accuracy, and sufficiency to meet program requirements and objectives.
• Participate in program reviews and technical interchange meetings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Physics, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline with 14+ years related experience, or Master's degree in Business, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline 12+ years related experience; Master's degree and 9 years or more experience; PhD or JD and 9 years or more experience.
• TS/SCI with polygraph.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, programmatic, and problem solving skills.
• Strong briefing and writing skills.
• A demonstrated ability to be effective in a fast-paced, dynamic, and energetic environment.
• Familiarity with defense and intelligence acquisition, budget planning and contracting.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.