Technical Operations Engineer

Technical Operations Engineer

Location: Huntsville, AL, or Franklin, NC

Employment Type: Full-Time



Overview

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.