Engineering Planner / Documentarian at Leidos

Description

The National Airspace Systems Integration Support (NISC) program at Leidos is seeking an Engineering Planner / Documentarian to perform a variety of duties in connection with the preparation of high-profile business intelligence documents for FAA senior leaders, Lines of Businesses, or other external groups. The position will be supporting the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Engineering Services Group in El Segundo, CA and is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the NISC mission.

This position will support the daily operations of the FAA Enterprise Network Services (FENS) Program. FENS is the successor to the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) contract, which was implemented in 2002 to provide over 30,000 communications services to more than 4,500 facilities within the National Airspace System.  The program aims to design, build, operate, and maintain the FAA's next-generation communications platform and to build a dynamic, highly available and secure enterprise network to support all the agency's mission-critical applications across the NAS.

The ideal candidate should be able to communicate to a variety of audiences including Engineering Services, Air Traffic Operations, Technical Operations, and System Operations.  The ability to work in a team environment is critical as this will contribute to the overall success of the deliverable. 

Primary Responsibilities for the position include but are not limited to:

• Provide documentation support to include historical record of design changes, tracking the status of project activities, project risk, action items, and producing meeting minutes as directed by the project leads to support any airspace and procedures initiative.
• Demonstrate taking a concept and turning it into a product.
• Provide monthly reporting on the projects, meeting notes, participant attendance, as well as providing materials to compile reports and inform stakeholders at quarterly, monthly, and weekly meetings.
• Conduct efficient, organized data gathering and data analysis and must be able to develop reports, establish schedules, and conduct studies.
• Clear and concise general and technical writing, prepare and conduct effective technical presentations, provide thorough project monitoring and reporting, and tactfully coordinate with a variety of project stakeholders, peers, and management levels.
• Actively record important information disseminated in meetings; in-person and virtual and organize that information and translate it into meeting minutes and reports. Transposing of large amounts of data with accuracy and speed.
• Capable of applying MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, database management applications and know how to use the Internet as a data gathering and communicating tool.
• Provides organized documentation and has an awareness of general documentation systems.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be able to conduct research, evaluations, studies, and develop recommendation to the FAA customer.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Experience with the recording of Technical Documentation.
• Bachelors degree with 4+ years of relevant prior experience OR Masters with 2+ years of prior relevant experience.  Additional years of relevant experience may be considered/accepted in lieu of degree.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust Security Clearance Suitability (To be eligible for Public Trust Security Clearance, one must be either a U.S. Citizen OR a U.S. Permanent Resident/Green Card holder who has resided in the U.S.A for the past 3 years of the past 5 years consecutively with no breaks).

Desired Skills:

• Experience dealing with multiple lines of business in the FAA.

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Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.