Senior Space Systems Engineer – SCI Clearance; Onsite

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available.

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes.

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI.

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% 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 Space Systems is seeking a Program Deputy Chief Engineer to help lead a well established space program within the space superiority and war fighting business unit located in Dulles, VA. This position is 100% on site and does not support remote work.

This Deputy Chief Engineer position requires an exceptional degree of ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness to lead the system definition, technical planning and execution on an operational program with a well established history during a time of an evolving threat and acquisition landscape.

This role will be the lead technical authority for a mature operational space system. This includes supporting a fleet of vehicles on orbit with executing their required missions, ensuring new mission and ground segment capabilities (hardware and software based) get on-ramped into the existing system and working with the chief engineer and customer partners to help shape the future of the business area including system re-architecture, optimization or enhancement.

• Developing and maintaining a strong PMO and customer relationship to ensure that all stakeholder needs, goals and objectives are taken into account.
• Leading a multi-disciplined engineering team and managing the technical performance of the program including cost and schedule requirements for both internal work and subcontracted elements.
• Coordinating engineering responses to issues, anomalies or changes in customer direction within the on-orbit fleet.
• Ensuring that the program is adhering to sound engineering and configuration management processes in the development, production, test, and sustainment of products for our customers and is compliance with company policies, procedures, and quality standards.
• Maintaining cognizance over technical activities within programs operations and sustainment scope while ensuring horizontal integration of the best engineering practices across the company.
• Continually coordinating with the systems engineering functional organization and program management team to ensure the execution of program statement of work, consistent technical baselines and serves as the technical point of contact with the customer for any program scope that effects the operational fleet.

This individual will be the prime spokesperson on company's technical capabilities in support of this mission and is viewed as expert within the field of Systems Engineering with communication to the highest levels (Director/VPs).

This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time determined by the company.

• BS in Engineering or related technical field & 14 years’ experience, or Masters Degree & 12 years’ experience, or Ph.D. & 10 years’ experience.
• Requires an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance at the time of application.
• Must be willing travel 10-25% (CONUS).
• Systems engineering experience, to include: architectural studies, mission architecture and tactics, technical baseline definition, requirements & interface management, hardware/software integration, test planning & execution and system sustainment and on orbit…