Textile Engineer III

Amentum is seeking a highly skilled Textile Engineer III to support the PM Soldier Survivability project office under Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier, Fort Belvoir, VA.

This position offers an opportunity to be part of a dynamic and cohesive team whose mission is to provide and rapidly deliver enhanced protection, individual equipment, and aviation life support capabilities, which provides combat overmatch and facilitates mission execution.

• Apply advanced theories, concepts, principles, and processes to textile materials and functional combat, environmentally protective, and specialized clothing systems.
• Assist in research, design, development, fabrication, test, and evaluation of complex systems for various Warfighter and Soldier platforms.
• Establish requirements for integration issues applicable to a wide variety of Warfighter and Soldier Systems to protect against threats such as environmental, chemical, biological, flame, and detection.
• Resolve complex problems associated with the protection, survivability, and lethality of Warfighter and Soldiers in various combat and utility environments.
• Coordinate and conduct materiel system investigations and analysis to determine the feasibility of various advanced technological and product development approaches.
• Plan, organize, direct, and coordinate development programs to ensure technological approaches are adhered to in the development, integration, and manufacturing of materials and combat and specialized clothing systems.
• Review and evaluate system performance against specification requirements, monitor and assess field performance, and assess risk of meeting user and specification requirements.
• Identify material/end-item deficiencies, propose sound technological concepts, recommend development programs, and prepare funding estimates and time phasing requirements for achieving significant improvements.
• Initiate engineering change proposals and waivers/deviations as required.
• Maintain extensive liaison with other agencies to exchange information on related developments and obtain cooperative and/or transition agreements.
• Assist in the development of joint programs with industry to facilitate research in manufacturing processes and transition the fabrication methodology for the manufacture of military clothing.
• Manage program and project fiscal resources allocated for RDTE programs and customer projects.
• Deliver briefings and prepare reports, including interpretations, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Maintain active contact with industry, academia, and other organizations involved with research and development of related areas.
• Review program management documents to ensure accuracy and adequacy of technical content.
• Subject matter expert for textile engineering materials, development, integration, and manufacturing, and has the ability to lead engineering efforts on assigned programs with minimal oversight from the government lead.

• BS Engineering or Equivalent and ten (10) years relevant experience.

• ACTIVE CLEARANCE LEVEL REQUIRED: Secret. Please note US Citizenship is required to obtain a Secret Government Clearance.

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