COLSA Corporation is seeking a Test and Evaluation Manager to support a USAF contract in Dayton, OH. This role will support program reviews, inspections, test planning meetings, readiness reviews, and other test-related milestones. The T&E Manager will help develop and maintain test plans, evaluation strategies, and acquisition documents, while coordinating testing requirements and acceptance processes with program offices, contractors, and oversight agencies.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Apply knowledge of DoD test and evaluation processes to assist in the designing, planning, execution, analysis and reporting phases of test and evaluation programs (including any applicable FAA certifications and procedures) to assess the performance of aeronautical systems, subsystems, and equipment, as they progress through the various acquisition phases and milestones
- Review/develop/update applicable program documentation for Test and Evaluation (T&E) management-relevant requirements across the full spectrum of actions required to award weapon system-related contracts to including but not limited to pre-award documentation, development of evaluation criteria, evaluation of contractor proposals, and post-award documentation actions
- Perform an advisory role, as required, for program source selections on all test and evaluation management related requirements.
- Assist in project team meetings, working groups, and reviews and provide assistance to any integrated test team activities including interaction with higher level test organizations such as OSD/Director Of Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E)
- Evaluate the levels of effort, resources, and integration required to develop executable T&E programs and execute the T&E plan
- Assist in scheduling and securing required test resources in support of project/program office objectives
- Perform research activities to define minimum test requirements, definition of task scope, and selection of alternatives
- Prepare, maintain, update, and review the full range of test plans and test-related documentation including but not limited to T&E strategies, test reports, requirements and objectives, for adequacy, specification/performance requirement compliance, conformity with mandatory guidance, and provide recommendations as necessary for improvement
- Perform material solution analyses leading up to design reviews
- Assist in the development of draft documentation and presentation materials as requested or necessitated by programmatic limits based on cost, schedule, and performance
- Review, analyze, and resolve equipment interface problems, assist in the determination and definition of aircraft configuration requirements and support the CCB for aircraft modifications
- Review, analyze, and identify potential updates to TCTOs, drawings, Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), Illustrated Parts Breakdowns (IPBs), and other applicable aerial target technical data. Shall have experience in conducting engineering studies; developing test procedures, repair capabilities, and maintenance or inspection requirements; and analyzing data from the REMIS and Integrated Maintenance Data System (IMDS)
- Provide technical, programmatic, and logistical historical context information and data so that comprehensive engineering and management decisions can be made in a timely manner
- Provide data collection assistance and evaluate the data sufficiency, assess data collection methodology, instrumentation and procedures, format data to facilitate computer processing and analysis and perform first and second-generation data reduction. Also, perform data analysis using Modeling and Simulation (M&S) techniques, models, computer simulations, or other tools/methods
- Recommend and assess test data requirements necessary to meet program test objectives within program cost and schedule constraints and use the analysis results to recommend changes in testing techniques, procedures, and/or to identify potential areas for further investigation
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Required Skills
Required Experience
One of the following combinations of education/experience:
* MA/MS degree, and twelve (12) years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, five (5) years of which must be in the DoD -OR-
* BA/BS degree, and fifteen (15) years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, five (5) of which must be in the DoD -OR-
* HSD/GED, twenty (20) years of directly related experience, eight (8) of which must be in the DoD.
- U.S. Citizenship required. Must be able to obtain and maintain a Security clearance at the required level
Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. COLSA Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.