Senior Chief Engineer

Relocation Assistance

Relocation assistance may be available.

Yes. Clearance type:
Secret.

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.

Northrop Grumman is looking for a Senior Staff Chief Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals on the E-2D Program in Melbourne, FL
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Northrop Grumman is looking for a Chief Engineer for the Japan E-2D Development and Sustainment and E-2C Taiwan Programs, this function supports the Production IPT within Multi‑Domain Command and Control (MDC2) business unit of the Global Surveillance Division part of the Aeronautics Sector. Production is responsible for E‑2D development for our International Customers including Japan. This position reports to the MDC2 Engineering Director and to the Program Director for the Japan sub‑IPT.

This Chief Engineer is the responsible technical authority for all design, development and testing, including subcontracted elements, for this Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program.

The CE maintains cognizance over technical activities within the Japan sub‑IPT and ensures the program strategy is aligned with sound engineering processes in the development, test, production and sustainability phases. The CE ensures the decisions on the configuration of the deliverable product and the technical approaches achieve expected system performance, enable long‑term program sustainment and meet technical requirements.

The CE provides guidance for all related technical activities and is responsible for the integrity of the product technical baselines. The CE coordinates with the other E‑2D IPTs to ensure execution of the programs within an established cost and schedule baseline. The CE leads the baseline configuration management, ensures detail design approaches follow sector processes and procedures, approves the top design/architecture approaches, and drives reuse of design concepts from across the Sector.

The CE ensures a robust system engineering approach is executed for supporting the weapon system.

Experience and ability to work Agile concepts across multiple fields including software, integration and test is required. Familiarity with tactical weapon system software development, avionics integration laboratories, flight test, and associated data reduction and analysis is required.

This position requires extended international travel with some trips extending over more than a single work week.

• The CE maintains cognizance over technical activities within the Japan sub‑IPT and ensures the program strategy is aligned with sound engineering processes.
• The CE ensures the decisions on the configuration of the deliverable product and the technical approaches achieve expected system performance, enable long‑term program sustainment and meet technical requirements.
• The CE provides guidance for all related technical activities and is responsible for the integrity of the product technical baselines.
• The CE coordinates with the other E‑2D IPTs to ensure execution of the programs within an established cost and schedule baseline.
• The CE leads the baseline configuration management, ensures detail design approaches follow sector processes and procedures, approves top design/architecture approaches, and drives reuse of design concepts.
• The CE ensures a robust system engineering approach is executed for supporting the weapon system.
• Experience and ability to work Agile concepts across multiple fields including software, integration and test is required.
• Familiarity with tactical weapon system software development, avionics integration laboratories, flight test, and associated data reduction and analysis is required.

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) discipline…