Reliability Engineer - Reliability & Maintainability; R&M

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance required for start:
Yes. Clearance type:
Secret. Travel:
Yes, 10% of the time.

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems has an opening for a Reliability Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, FL.

• Perform R&M allocations and predictions.
• Develop Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) analysis.
• Perform Built In Test (BIT) testability analysis.
• Develop mission reliability analysis.
• Support the development of teams in the investigation of issues.
• Familiarity with Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
• Experience with Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS).
• Experience with maintainability demonstrations.
• Experience with Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), Reliability Growth Testing (RGT), and Environmental Stress Screening (ESS).
• Liaison with Integrated Product Teams (IPT) and suppliers for the R&M of assigned subsystems.

You should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative/team settings across all levels. You must be able to collaborate closely with system engineers, hardware designers, and integration/test engineers. You may develop, coordinate and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs. Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.

Compile and analyze performance reports and process control statistics; investigate and analyze relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes. Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards. Analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives. May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks. As necessary, propose changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.

May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specify minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics discipline from an accredited university and 2 years of engineering experience OR Master’s Degree in STEM and 0 years of experience.
• Experience in Reliability and Maintainability discipline.
• Must have an active US Government Secret clearance or higher (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
  Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.

• Active US Government Top Secret Clearance.
• Degree in Mechanical, Aerospace or Electrical Engineering or similar Engineering Degree.

Primary Level Salary Range: $72,100.00 - $. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

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