Staff Engineer Aeronautical - R10220186

Overview

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

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 Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Staff Aeronautical Engineer. The candidate should be a self-starter and will be working within an Integrated Product Team construct. This position will be filled out of El Segundo or Palmdale, CA.

This candidate will serve as the Deputy IPT Lead within a matrix organization, serving as the IPT’s direct liaison between the Program, Operating Unit, adjacent IPTs and multiple engineering organizations. The position will report directly to the multi-discipline Integrated Product Lead Manager 3.

• Responsible for the direct supervision/management of the staff. Providing objective-oriented direction to subordinates utilizing management guidelines & general policies.
• Serve as Deputy Integrated Product Lead Manager and DOA as required
• Oversee technical, cost and schedule performance for complex technical projects for a wide range of systems and technologies.
• Ensure technical rigor, drive robust technical solutions, and lead product roll out efforts with cross functional Responsible Engineers (REs) to prepare change request packages from approval to completion.
• Ensure all change requests meet technical requirements to progress through the change management lifecycle to include presentations at Enterprise Technical Change Boards.
• Represent the multi-discipline engineering organization in Integrated Master Schedule working group meetings and meeting or beating technical implementation milestones
• Attend program meetings and present all technical and programmatic engineering information.
• Identify and manage engineering risks, issues, and opportunities, including representing engineering in Risk Board meetings
• Communicate prioritization from program leadership to technical execution teams
• Interface between program/business management and technical team
• Program responsibilities include planning and program performance addressing cost, schedule, technical performance, and quality of a work package, subsystem, or related group of work packages on a large system development-type contract or full responsibility for all aspects of program performance on a large delivery order or mid-size technical services-type contract.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to:
• Develop new projects for approval, including development of the requirements, statement of work (SOW), and schedule.
• Coordinate gathering of impacts and estimates for proposals.
• Develop and adhere to the budget baseline using the Earn Value Management (EVM) process, including development of discrete work packages, providing weekly status of IMS tasks, and providing input to monthly Estimate at Complete (EAC) updates.
• Manage execution of projects and technical tasks to completion and provide regular status updates to leadership.
• Assess, track, and mitigate technical, cost and schedule risk.
• Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analysis for total systems.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 10 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a…