Engineer
UIC Government Services and the Bowhead Family of Companies
Crane, INJob$73–75K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Bowhead seeks an Engineer to provide technical and engineering support to the Strategic Systems Guidance, Navigation and Control Division at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana. The role supports missile-system and support-equipment programs through program planning, hardware evaluation, logistics assessments, engineering investigations, and independent verification and validation. Candidates need an engineering, scientific, or technical bachelor’s degree and zero to two years of technical experience with high-reliability systems.
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Overview
Engineer (GXP 2026-26557):
Bowhead seeks a Engineer to join our team at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, IN. The Engineer will provide technical and engineering support services to the Strategic Systems Guidance, Navigation and Control Division.
Responsibilities
Essential functions will include:
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Perform duties with minimal supervision and management intervention.
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Support the development of programmatic concepts including roles and responsibilities, schedules, metrics, coordination activities necessary to ensure proper execution of the Support Equipment programs. This includes interface with internal and external management as required to resolve programmatic issues, ensure corrective actions are instituted to correct deficiencies, support Program Management Reviews, and negotiate project expectations, deliveries, schedule, and risks.
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Assist the Government in the technical and administrative development of the aforementioned plans and in the implementation. These plans must include the scope and purpose of the effort, an outline of recommended evaluations and analyses, testing requirements, a schedule for prototype development, production, testing and acquisition, and a POA&M.
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Analyze, make recommendations and provide the rationale for these recommendations, and provide technical and administrative support for generation and updating of these program plans. Updated and prepared program plans must be delivered to the Government (CDRL A004).
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Perform market research and identification of available hardware in the marketplace, work the requirements verification of identified hardware, perform incoming inspection, perform calibration verification, record key calibration data and performance parameters, perform functional verification, testing and evaluation in preparation for deployment and preparation for shipment to the field activity.
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Conduct technical assessments of the logistic requirements for systems, subsystems, equipment, and components to ensure completeness, accuracy, and conformance to requirements using guidance from MIL-HDBK-502.
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Provide program management support for missile system development System, Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Support Equipment, and Electrical Support System Refresh (SPALT) development for the Electrical Support Equipment (ESE) programs and support tasking for SSP programs SP23/27.
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Be the single point of contact for all efforts related to the planning, organizing, budgeting and direction of the execution of the SP27 Tasking.
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Must assist NSWC Crane supporting the SP-27 Program Office for ESE Refresh, Alterations and Updates as required for implementation support for programs supported by NSWC Crane. This will require reviewing and analyzing current SSP and NSWC Crane acquisition strategies and operations to understand where efficiencies could be realized.
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Provide engineering support for the research and design support of SSP Support Equipment.
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Must provide Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) support on Support Equipment development and modification efforts via Government Independent Review Team (IRT) activities.
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Must document and report on proposed improvements to the SP23 components and/or operations for the SP23 Program. This must include engineering and technical investigations, computational analysis, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and performance simulations, market research, technology assessments, and concept formulations for improving existing or developing new capabilities.
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Must identify and document deficiencies and discrepancies that exist within the System Requirements Documents, and work with internal and external teams to make sure that document revisions adequately remedy deficiencies and discrepancies.
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Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in an engineering, scientific, or technical discipline.
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Must have zero (0) to two (2) years technical experience working on high reliability systems.
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Have sufficient hardware experience to identify and solve hardware problems associated with design, development, and integration of high reliability systems.
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Must have knowledge of the missle sytem design and testing requirements. Knowledge of the TRIDENT D5 (UGM-133a TRIDENT II) preferred.
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Intermediate to advanced level skills in Microsoft Office software suite - Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint
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Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and outside contacts
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Strong interpersonal skills and good judgment with the ability to work alone or as part of a team
Target salary range for this position is $73,000 to $75,000 annually based on qualifications and experience
Physical Demands:
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Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds
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Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged amounts of time
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Must be able to twist, bend and squat periodically
SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS: Must be able to obtain a security clearance at the Secret level. Applicants who currently hold a Secret clearance are strongly encouraged to apply. US Citizenship is a requirement for Secret clearance at this location.
Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Bowhead considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and business considerations when extending an offer.
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Applicants may be subject to a pre-employment drug & alcohol screening and/or random drug screen, and must follow UIC’s Non-DOT Drug & Alcohol Testing Program requirements. If the position requires, an applicant must pass a pre-employment criminal background history check. All post-secondary education listed on the applicant’s resume/application may be subject to verification.
Where driving may be required or where a rental car must be obtained for business travel purposes, applicants must have a valid driver license for this position and will be subject to verification. In addition, the applicant must pass an in-house, online, driving course to be authorized to drive for company purposes.
UIC is an equal opportunity employer. Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation (UIC) considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status EOE/D/V. Pursuant to The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act 43 U.S.C. Sec. 1601 et seq., and subject to other state and federal requirements, UIC and its subsidiaries may legally grant certain preference in employment opportunities to UIC Shareholders and their Descendants. Please view Equal Employment Opportunity posters here .
All candidates must apply online at www.uicalaska.com , and submit a completed application for all positions they wish to be considered. Once the employment application has been completed and submitted, any changes to the application after submission may not be reviewed. Please contact a UIC HR Recruiter if you have made a significant change to your application. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), persons unable to complete an online application should contact UIC Human Resources for assistance www.uicalaska.com/careers/recruitment/ .
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
UIC Government Services (UICGS / Bowhead) provides innovative business solutions to federal and commercial customers in the areas of engineering, maintenance services, information technology, program support, logistics/base support, and procurement. Collectively, the fast-growing Bowhead Family of Companies offers a breadth of services which are performed with a focus on quality results. Headquartered in Springfield, VA, we are a fast-growing, multi-million-dollar company recognized as a top Alaska Native Corporation providing services across the Department of Defense and many federal agencies. Bowhead offers competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, short/long-term disability, and 401(k) retirement plans as well as a paid time off programs for eligible full-time employees. Eligible part-time employees are able to participate in the 401(k) retirement plans and state or contract required paid time off programs.
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ID 2026-26557
Category Engineering
Location : Location US-IN-Crane
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain Secret
Minimum Clearance Required Secret
Travel Requirement Less than 10%
How this job compares
Set against the 7,293 open Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$73–75K/yr
- Indiana median$103–170K/yr52 salary ranges
- US median$115–178K/yr3,811 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $74K, is 47% below the Indiana median midpoint ($140K) — in the lowest quarter of Engineering salary ranges in Indiana.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 140 open Engineering jobs in Indiana and 7,293 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Indiana
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- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 5,033 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 3,724 of the 7,293 open Engineering jobs (51%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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