Specializing in leading-edge manned and unmanned aircraft control and landing systems, SNC’s Communication, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management(CNS/ATM) Business Area designs and develops surface and airborne radars, 3-dimensional imaging radars, manned and unmanned aircraft flight control systems, support avionics, mobile Air Traffic Control shelters and related products.

The Reliability Engineer candidate will support a number of active programs across the entire CNS/ATM business area. Tasks require detailed knowledge and experience generating reliability analyses and predictions (MTBF) at the system and subsystem level using MIL-HDBK-217 as guidance and conforming to military specifications and handbooks such as OPNAVINST 4410.2A/Army Reg. 700-82/MCO 4400.120 and MIL-HDBK-338B.

Candidate also will work with engineers to design reliability into systems and develop associated sparing philosophies and subsystem/component quantity requirements/recommendations. Candidate also will perform reliability block diagram and fault tree analyses, generate FMEA and FMECA reports, provide supporting data for the LORA and lead reliability demonstrations, perform Reliability Growth Management program execution with captured field failure data and be familiar with Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) concepts and Telcordia and Markov prediction model methodologies. 

Additional tasking may include maintainability efforts including development of the LORA, life cycle cost analyses, maintainability analyses, maintainability predictions (MTTR) and demonstrations and generation of HALT plans as required.

 Candidate will be an integral member of design and development teams providing supporting information, analyses and guidance to design engineers to insure reliability and maintainability requirements are met.  Candidate will develop presentation material for the reliability and maintainability elements of programs for formal design reviews.

 Candidate will understand, plan, and execute reliability and maintainability tasks in accordance with SNC’s SEI-CMMI Maturity Level 3, ISO 9001:2008 and AS9100:2009 compliant processes and specific Customer quality, cost and schedule requirements. 

Candidate will support continuous process improvement, helping to develop and improve processes to positively impact product quality, performance and increase productivity.

Candidate must be expert in the use of reliability and maintainability analysis tools. 
Candidate must be proficient in Microsoft Power Point, Word, and Excel and have excellent written and oral communication skills.

Candidate may be required to travel for the purposes of design presentations, reliability and maintainability demonstrations, and other interactions with prime and/or sub-contractors.