X- Force is seeking a skilled Technical Operations Engineer to join our team in Franklin, North Carolina, or in The Rocket City, Huntsville, Alabama. This mid-career role is ideal for someone with strong experience supporting military electronics development or sustainment programs who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced engineering environment. The Technical Operations Engineer will play a critical role in shaping supplier strategies, ensuring material readiness, and driving execution velocity across multiple programs.
Key Responsibilities
The Technical Operations Engineer will be responsible for:
Proposal & Capture Support
Collaborate with Business Development and Engineering to develop technically executable proposal solutions.
Develop Bills of Material (BOMs), procurement strategies, and technical assumptions supporting ROMs and formal proposals.
Obtain supplier quotations and evaluate technical and commercial solutions to improve proposal competitiveness.
Identify execution risks, long-lead materials, and supply chain constraints during proposal development.
Support Basis of Estimates (BOEs), technical volumes, and proposal reviews.
Engineering Operations
Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and quality to improve program startup and execution.
Develop component integration strategies and formal electronics kits supporting assembly, integration, and test.
Optimize BOMs for cost, manufacturability, lifecycle, and availability.
Support configuration management and engineering release activities.
Component & Supply Chain Engineering
Manage component lifecycle planning, obsolescence mitigation, and alternate part qualification.
Build strategic supplier relationships that improve quality, delivery, and cost.
Develop preferred supplier and preferred component strategies.
Coordinate engineering evaluations of substitute or replacement components.
What success looks like
Increase proposal estimating accuracy.
Reduce procurement lead times.
Reduce component obsolescence risk.
Improve supplier performance.
Improve engineering execution velocity.
Increase proposal win rate through more competitive sourcing.
Reduce first-article build issues.
Improve gross margin by reducing material and execution costs.
Required Qualifications
Minimum 5 years of experience in the defense industry completing engineering design and development projects for military electronics systems including system engineering, bill of material (BOM) development and component sourcing.
4-year degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, business development, manufacturing, and program teams.
Excellent communication, organization, and supplier management skills.
Ability to gain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with legacy military electronics sustainment.
Familiarity with obsolescence tracking tools, ERP/MRP systems, and structured logistics processes.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Franklin, NC
Skills
Aerospace and Defenseunmatched
Bill of Materials (BOM)unmatched
Business Developmentunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Configuration Managementunmatched
Cost Controlunmatched
Cross-Functionalunmatched
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
Electronics Assemblyunmatched
Engineering Bill of Materials (eBOM)unmatched
Gross Marginunmatched
Integration Testingunmatched
Logistics Processesunmatched
Manufacturingunmatched
Military Electronicsunmatched
Performance Managementunmatched
Proposal Developmentunmatched
Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
Quality Managementunmatched
Release Management/Engineeringunmatched
Risk Analysisunmatched
Secret Clearanceunmatched
Security Clearanceunmatched
Startupunmatched
Strategic Planningunmatched
Supply Chainunmatched
Systems Engineeringunmatched
Technical Analysisunmatched
Technical Operationsunmatched
Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Planningunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
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