Manager Systems Engineering

Job Details

• RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
  Relocation assistance may be available
• CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
  Yes
• CLEARANCE TYPE:
  Secret
• TRAVEL:
  Yes, 25% of the Time

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.

Discipline Execution Lead for Systems Engineering – the role directly reports to the Director of Engineering Discipline Execution. It is responsible for seeking and defining commonality in systems engineering disciplines across the sector’s sites while enabling site‑specific approaches necessary for their technology areas. The Lead will collaborate extensively with cross‑functional organizations to target improvements that benefit overall business outcomes, including Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality and Mission Assurance, Business Management, and Program Management.

The Lead will also source systems engineering talent for audits, independent review teams, and root cause and corrective actions.

• Ensure systems 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.
• Define oversight methods (e.g., metrics).
• Implement methods to drive systems 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 systems engineering competitiveness by:
• • Leveraging sector reusable engineering assets (processes, guidance, tools, templates, and training) to design affordable systems at the speed of customer need.
• • Providing support to program and product line teams through coaching and mentoring on the use of these sector assets.
• • Partnering with other organizations to enhance systems engineering, mission engineering, digital design and product line engineering processes across programs.
• • Partnering with other organizations to establish metrics and other measures focused on execution.
• Improve engineering through updated, automated, and efficient processes.
• When required, act as a sector interface to corporate, cross‑sector, and/or intra‑sector teams.
• Foster collaboration through groups such as reusable asset authorities, advisory boards, communities of practice, and centers of excellence.

• Lead team focused on systems engineering Principles and Operating Procedures (PrOP).
• Perform analysis on audit results to understand process gaps, process escapes, and implement plans to update processes and/or work with audited groups to rectify any issues.

• Partner with other functional organizations (manufacturing, supply chain, program management, etc.) to enable competitive engineering design and performance, including changes to engineering processes, tools, data, and workflows.
• Coordinating technical SMEs to support critical program milestones such as System Requirements Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, Manufacturing Readiness Reviews, etc.
• Coordinate technical SMEs across organizations in support of other…