Chief Operations Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Chief Operations Engineer with Security Clearance
About Peraton Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit  to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure. Program Overview About

The Role We are seeking a highly experienced Chief Operations Engineer to serve as the operational lead and on-site point of contact (POC) for a mission critical program. The Resilient Missile Warning/Missile Tracking (Resilient MWT) Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) program provides a capability-based, phased delivery approach to meet the operational objective system that fully satisfies the Missile Warning (MW) and Missile Defense (MD) Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Capability Development Document (CDD).

The ideal candidate will apply deep expertise in leadership, ground operations segment and engineering principles to assess requirements, develop operational designs, and oversee the operational execution for the program. This role requires strong leadership, the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and collaboration with various stakeholders, including government and contractor personnel. The Chief Operations Engineer validates the functionality of the current operations center for support of the ground segment operations and oversee the development of a new Back-up operations facility.

Key Responsibilities:

* Translates programmatic and Customer requirements into operational design and validate compliance of generated processes, procedures and BMSOC facility design
* Select and work with suppliers and designers to develop and finalize the MSOC and BMSOC design and coordinate the design with the Customer for approval.
* Serve as the primary operations POC for the program.
* Investigate and analyze unique or highly technical operational and Customer issues by providing technical assistance in establishing procedures and processes to resolve or avoid similar issues in the future.
* Review and evaluate complex non-nominal observations to include crew deviations and implement corrective action as needed.
* Interface with government Customers, vendors, subcontractors, and program members to resolve technical and quality problems relating to ground segment operations.
* Perform complex technical surveillance to improve operational support, improve procedures, identify improvements in software, and increase quality by reducing operational risk.
* Provide guidance to both Customer and program leadership in the areas of producibility, operational processes, equipment improvement, quality control, software quality and configuration management, and procurement
* Communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders to foster support for program objectives.
* Oversee project efforts to ensure technical execution remains on schedule and within budget.
* Work with PMO and TPOCs to define technical requirements, schedules, performance criteria, project kick-off briefings, and other technical reports and documents as required for program deliverables.
* Provide recommendations based on technical assessments and present findings to key decision-makers.
* Attend and host meetings as required by the Customer or Customer defined deliverables.
* Review and approve crew scheduling and verify all operational shifts are fully manned per the CONOPS.
* Supervise and mentor junior engineers and operators as needed.
* Ensure seamless communication and collaboration across programmatic technical teams.
* Support the PMO by conducting programmatic and technical evaluations.
* Manage multiple…