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Summary

Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance ! Chenega Services & Federal Solutions, LLC , a Chenega Professional Services ’ company, is looking for an Ballistics Engineer 3 to support the Injury Biomechanics and Protection Group (IBP) of the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory (USAARL) to provide the scientific, programmatic, and technical support to allow responsive, high quality, and timely mission accomplishment within a flexible and changing environment.

Our company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities. We actively strive to channel our highly engaged employee’s knowledge, critical thinking, innovative solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical engineering support for research, analysis, and investigations in supporting design, preparation, execution, and analysis of studies and experimentation

• Design, assemble, install, and maintain experimentation facilities and recommend and incorporate appropriate instrumentation, and equipment

• Develop and ensure SOPs,proposals, research work plans, and documentation meet military and regulatory standards

• Perform laboratory procedures, field studies, testing, evaluation, and research activities

• Support Principal Investigators and Group Leadership and study teams in preparation and execution of RDT&E laboratory and field studies, particularly in the area of managing safe and timely study team experimentation, interpretation of RDT&E in context of military relevance, and reporting on RDT&E outcomes

• Work independently with minimal strategic guidance and with a certain degree of creativity and latitude to address analytic, theoretical, scientific, and operational questions, solve analytic and technical problems, and execute analytic, theoretical, scientific, and administrative solutions.

• Provide experimentation, design, data acquisition, and data analysis services related to the Injury Biomechanics RDT&E program

• Provide ballistics, military tactical operations, and equipment expertise to IBPG by serving as ballistic test manager responsible for all non-specimen related aspects of the planned research

• Provide scientific analytical, engineering problem solving, design efforts, and experienced-based solutions related to creating, measuring, and evaluating biomechanical, kinematic, and physiologic responses

• Analyze and evaluate ongoing research through data and documentation

• Provide services in a team environment to meet customer, project timelines.

• Actively conduct hands-on PMHS research, volunteer research, quality assurance, data analysis, BSL-2 good laboratory practice, and support publication of project findings.

• Ensure all team members follow laboratory safety and biosafety requirements.

• Provide recommendations to improve laboratory data collection

• Confirm to the PI that the entire study team read, understand, and execute data acquisition techniques and procedures

• Ensure team members are accurately recording all laboratory procedures, research project data, data analyses, conclusions, and results in government-authorized notebooks and electronic systems

• Assist with writing research work plans, proposals, data collection procedures, and agreements.

• Maintain customer and collaborator relations.

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Experience in commonly-used concepts, practices, standards, and procedures within mechanical engineering, materials, biomedical experimentation, design, data acquisition, and mathematics as demonstrated through a relevant engineering degree and coursework from an ABET accredited program and demonstrates experience and skill with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures

• Experience in design, experimental T&E, instrumentation, and use/function of military systems

• Possess demonstrated experience with at least 4 of the following groupings: blast, ballistics, impact, and/or mechanical testing devices, personnel protective equipment (PPE), existing industry and military weapon and PPE standards, instrumentation (load cells, accelerometers, pressure gauges, etc.), data acquisition equipment (high rate, high quality); surrogate or human test and evaluation.

• Strong communication skills and professionalism

Chenega Corporation and family of companies is an EOE.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Native preference under PL 93-638.

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