Mechanical Engineer - Additive Tank Product Design & Development Technical Lead - Level 5

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No

CLEARANCE TYPE:
None TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time Description At  Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon.

We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Mechanical Engineer
- Additive Tank Product Design & Development Technical Lead
- Level 5 to join our Mission Enabling Products MEP Team. This position will be located in Commerce, CA.Northrop Grumman Mission Enabling Products (MEP) Business Unit designs, builds, and delivers space, defense and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. Our main products include satellites and associated space components and services, launch vehicles and related propulsion systems, missile products, subsystems and defense electronics, precision weapons, armament systems, and advanced aerospace structures.

As the Lead for the additively manufactured tank and scalable product line, you will own the product technical baseline, including product-line requirements, architecture, design, analysis, interfaces, engineering definition, product-critical tooling requirements, verification, and product qualification. You will lead through technical authority without direct reports and partners with manufacturing, design, analysis, M&P and Chief Engineer.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Own and control product-line requirements, architecture, configurations, interfaces, design rules, verification methods, and the product technical baseline.

Lead mechanical design of tanks, domes, joints, supports, interfaces, and associated hardware.

Direct structural, thermal, pressure, fatigue, fracture, buckling, and other required analyses, including model validation and test correlation.

Own functional GD&T, datum architecture, tolerance stacks, critical characteristics, acceptance criteria, and engineering-definition release; obtain documented manufacturability and inspectability concurrence from the Additive Manufacturing Lead.

Review DFM/DFA assessments led by the Additive Manufacturing Lead and decide how recommendations are incorporated into the controlled product design.

Approve design allowables, criteria, and margins using process data and capability evidence supplied by the Additive Manufacturing Lead.

Own joint performance, geometry, interfaces, fits, and acceptance requirements; coordinate with the Additive Manufacturing Lead on joining-process development and qualification.

Define product-critical, assembly, handling, integration, and test-tooling requirements, including loads, interfaces, accuracy, and acceptance criteria. Agree on tooling classification before work begins.

Define characteristics, tolerances, acceptance criteria, and verification closure; the Additive Manufacturing Lead owns manufacturing inspection methods and process controls.

Own product verification and qualification, including test articles, instrumentation, acceptance criteria, analysis-to-test correlation, and requirements…