SDS Parts Materials and Processes; PM&P Engineering Section Manager

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

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 Defense Systems is seeking a Parts, Materials and Processes (PM&P)
Engineering Section Manager 2 for the Strategic Deterrent Systems (SDS) division Engineering and Manufacturing team. This leadership role will be located in Manhattan Beach, CA and will provide enabling support for all business areas within the SDS portfolio. Northrop Grumman supports the Air Force’s sustainment, development, production and deployment of hardware and system modifications for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Ground and Airborne Launch Control Systems, Launch Facilities and associated infrastructure.

The selected candidate will be responsible for a PM&P Design discipline Section within the SDS Design Engineering organization and will report directly to an SDS PM&P Design Engineering Department Manager. You will provide career mentorship and operational support to a Functional Home Room (FHR) team (Section) of Individual Contributors (ICs) based on Engineering goals, objectives, and company policy. Key FHR responsibilities will be personnel performance management, process familiarization and training for Section members, as well as staffing of roles on projects.

As a section manager you will manage a team of individual contributors within PM&P, these individuals may support one or more programs within SDS.

• Provide performance feedback, training, mentoring and coaching to your employees.
• Support workforce planning and maintain sufficient depth and breadth of skillsets within your teams core discipline to meet program needs.
• Responsible for employee performance reviews and supporting employee career development.
• Excellent communication, mentoring, interpersonal skills, and the ability to collaborate with senior management, peers, and employees.
• Support development and refinement of processes and tools that support business areas and programs in achieving their missions.
• Support proposal work, independent technical reviews, program standup and audits, and special assignments on an as needed basis.
• Support employee engagement, hiring, development, training, attraction, and retention of top talent.
• Provide technical support to Sentinel program ensuring integration and effective collaboration with design teams to achieve program objectives, including but not limited to:
• Reviews and analyzes released engineering change data and coordinates changes with engineering, quality, support, manufacturing, and engineering data control activities.
• Lead EEEE PM&P engineers in selection and application of Electrical, Electronics, Electro-Mechanical, Electro-Optical (EEEE) parts, including Microcircuits, Connectors, Passive Devices, and Printed Circuit Boards.
• Oversee development of Component Specifications or Source Control Documents to meet Program requirements.
• Oversee development and execution of qualifications of new EEEE components for use in new Circuit Card Assembly designs.
• Work with manufacturing and Component vendors to resolve qualification, producibility, and test issues with parts and Circuit Card Assemblies.
• Familiar with management of new part requests, part objects, and part attributes in a Product Lifecycle Management…