Rocket Motor Production Specialist

Req ID: 39077

Summary

Rocket Motor Production Specialist

Redstone Arsenal, AL

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer's core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!

Our Strength Is Our People

We believe taking care of our employees will deliver the best support to our customers and our community. Our success is attributable to our employees. We recruit and retain civic-minded people who fit our family-oriented small business culture.

Valued people deliver the highest level of professionalism and support to our customers. We provide our employees with a positive work environment and social activities that reinforce teamwork.

Venturi, LLC, a Chenega Company, has a challenging career opportunity for a Rocket Motor Production Specialist who will support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Targets and Countermeasures Chief Engineer's office. This individual will apply technical expertise across multiple programs, developing the next generation of reentry vehicles, rocket motors, and countermeasures in support of creating realistic test environments for the nation's missile defense systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in support of numerous rocket motor launch vehicle systems from short- to long-range class motors. These systems range from established systems with decades of heritage to new systems preparing for first-flight events. The current focus for active programs will be solid rocket motors. Experience with liquid systems will be of use for potential future projects.
• Support the program office in tracking motor production plans and resolving production anomalies.
• Evaluate design, manufacturing, test, and qualification programs for all aspects of a motor, to include the case, nozzle, and propellant.
• Apply expertise in motor systems to evaluate thrust performance based on case and propellant design and make recommendations to senior leaders on trade-offs and capabilities.
• Provide an independent review of commercial launch systems capabilities and suitability for use in MDA flight test events.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required:

• Master's degree in STEM with 12+ years of experience working on missile defense-related or other complex, large DoD programs
• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance

Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Direct experience with manufacturing aspects of rocket motor components.
• MDA/DoD experience and familiarity with the Missile Defense System
• Familiarity with MDA flight test targets and threats
• Experience with Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) tools
• Experience with explosive systems on space and launch vehicles
• Familiarity with aging and surveillance programs for rocket motors
• Familiarity with small ordnance testing (LSC, pyrovalves, etc.)
• Experience with AIAA-S-113

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong preference for solid rocket motors and motors for use in short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) and larger vehicles.
• Experience with Stress, Loads, and Structures analysis
• Experience with propellant grain manufacturing and characterization
• Familiarity with ground test operations related to motor firings
• Knowledge of metal and composite materials common to Rocket motor design
• Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Familiarity with MDA and/or DoD programs and processes

How you'll grow

At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there's always room to learn.

We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.

Benefits

At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.

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Chenega MIOS's culture

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.

Corporate citizenship

Chenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.

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