Senior Systems Engineering Lead – Discipline Execution

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 25% of the Time

Description

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.

Discipline Execution lead for Systems Engineering

The Sector Engineering organization (formerly Strategy & Engineering Excellence [S&EE]) enables continuously improving engineering execution and deploys strategy in close partnership with division-aligned engineering teams. We are a trusted partner in Engineering Discipline Execution, Technology Leadership, Engineering Strategy, Technical Talent, and Advanced Analytics. We create and deliver on initiatives that need a broad sector approach and scale outcomes achieved within a division to the sector.

We define and enable commonality in tools and processes. We merge insights across engineering and other functional areas, unify the broad engineering team, and act on near-, mid-, and long-term plans to achieve our strategy.

The Discipline Execution lead for Systems Engineering directly reports to the Director of Engineering Discipline Execution. The role is responsible for seeking and defining commonality in systems engineering disciplines across the sector’s sites, while enabling site specific approaches necessary for their technology areas. This critical role requires extensive collaboration across engineering disciplines of Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Hardware or Design Engineering, Integration and Test Engineering, and more.

The team is responsible for defining common tools, standards, processes, techniques, and oversight methods across sites. The Lead will understand positive and negative trends and create action plans for both. In conjunction with the Engineering Strategy team, the Engineering Discipline Execution team will collaborate on a future vision and employ near-, mid-, and long-term actions to achieve organizational objectives. The Lead will be responsible to source the necessary Systems Engineering talent for successful audits, independent review teams, root cause and corrective actions, and others.

The Lead will also partner extensively with cross-functional organizations to target improvements that benefit overall business outcomes, e,g., Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality and Mission Assurance, Business Management, Program Management.

The Discipline Execution lead for Systems Engineering will lead a geographically distributed team of engineering professionals aligned across various organizations to accomplish the role. The Lead facilitates the deployment of long-term corporate, cross-sector, and intra-sector system engineering transformation efforts, with focus on continuous process improvement, guidance, coaching, and training.

Our ideal candidate understands various engineering life cycles and has the strategic vision of how it could or should be, and pragmatically how to achieve the desired state. The preferred candidate will have a solid technical background, strategic mindset and ability to influence multiple levels of leadership and customers to drive cost, performance, schedule and improvement to innovate and execute engineering activities.

Specific Responsibilities Include (but Are Not Limited To)

Discipline Execution

• Ensure systems engineering organizations across the sector are operating with predictable, repeatable rigor.
• Perform analysis to understand process differences between sites and, in collaboration with site leaders, implement change that achieves commonality to achieve business outcomes.
• Define oversight methods (e.g., metrics).
• Implement methods to drive systems engineering program performance and engineering organizational performance across cost, schedule, technical, quality, critical skills and staff, and various other areas.

• Collaborate on engineering long-term vision and strategic alignment
• Execute strategy and collaborate with organizational peers to stay ahead of industry trends and opportunities for innovation and engineering differentiation
• Partner with division engineering teams to improve systems engineering competitiveness. Includes:
• Leveraging sector reusable engineering assets (processes, guidance, tools, templates, and training) to design affordable…