Technical Operations Engineer

Technical Operations Engineer

Location: Huntsville, AL

Salary: Up to $150k

JOB DESCRIPTION

A client in Huntsville, AL is seeking a skilled Technical Operations Engineer! 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.

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 SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 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.