Manager Integration and Test

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.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. We have a wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies. Our differentiated battle management and cyber solutions deliver timely, mission-enabling information and provide superior situational awareness and understanding to protect the U.S. and its global allies.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is looking for you to join our team as a Manager Integration and Test 3 (Discipline Execution lead for Integration and Test Engineering) based out of Linthicum, MD or Rolling Meadows, IL or San Diego, CA with travel up to 25%.

Join the the Sector Engineering organization (formerly Strategy & Engineering Excellence [S&EE]) and function as the Discipline Execution lead for Integrated and Test Engineering.

This organization 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 Discipline Execution lead for Integration and Test Engineering directly reports to the Director of Engineering Discipline Execution. The role is responsible for seeking and defining commonality in Integration and Test 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 and Digital Engineering, I&T, Hardware Engineering, and more.

The team is responsible for defining common tools, standards, processes, techniques, and oversight methods across sites. The Lead 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 Lead will be responsible for helping to source and grow the necessary Integration and Test Engineering talent for successful audits, independent review teams, root cause and corrective actions, and others.

The Lead 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.

The Discipline Execution lead for Integration and Test Engineering may lead a geographically distributed team of engineering professionals aligned across various organizations to accomplish the role. The Lead facilitates the deployment of long-term corporate, cross-sector, and intra-sector I&T transformation efforts, with focus on continuous process improvement, guidance, coaching, and training.

This role is responsible for understanding and applying various engineering life cycles, defining a future-state vision for how engineering should operate, and developing practical plans to…