Director of Engineering Discipline Execution - R10217567

Director of Engineering Discipline Execution - R

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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.

The Sector Engineering organization (formerly Strategy & Engineering Excellence) enables continuously improving engineering execution and deploys strategy in close partnership with division-aligned engineering teams. We are a trusted partner in Engineering Discipline Execution, Technology Leadership, Engineering Strategy, Technical Talent, and Advanced Analytics. We create and deliver on initiatives that need a broad sector approach and scale outcomes achieved within a division to the sector.

We define and enable commonality in tools and processes. We merge insights across engineering and other functional areas, unify the broad engineering team, and act on near-, mid-, and long-term plans to achieve our strategy.

The Director of Engineering Discipline Execution is responsible for seeking and defining commonality in engineering disciplines across the sector’s sites, while enabling site-specific approaches necessary for their technology areas. This critical role requires extensive collaboration across engineering disciplines of Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Hardware or Design Engineering, Integration and Test Engineering, and more. The team is responsible to define common tools, standards, processes, techniques, and oversight methods across sites.

The Director will understand positive and negative trends and create action plans for both. In conjunction with the Engineering Strategy team, the Engineering Discipline Execution team will collaborate on a future vision and employ near-, mid-, and long-term actions to achieve organizational objectives. The team will consist of subject matter experts in each discipline, both organizationally aligned and matrixed support.

This team will also partner extensively with cross-functional organizations to target improvements that benefit overall business outcomes, e.g., Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality and Mission Assurance, Business Management, Program Management.

• Ensure engineering organizations across the sector are operating with predictable, repeatable rigor.
• Perform analysis to understand process differences between sites and, in collaboration with site leaders, implement change that achieves commonality to achieve business outcomes.
• Execute across major discipline areas of Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Design Engineering, Integration and Test Engineering, etc., to define oversight methods (e.g., metrics).
• Implement methods to drive engineering program performance and engineering organizational performance across cost, schedule, technical, quality, critical skills and staff, and various other areas.
• Collaborate on engineering long-term vision and strategic alignment.
• Execute strategy and collaborate with organizational peers to stay ahead of industry trends and opportunities for innovation and engineering differentiation.
• Partner with division engineering teams to improve engineering competitiveness, including leveraging sector reusable engineering assets, providing support to program…