Sentinel Software Reliability Systems Engineering Manager

Software Reliability Systems Engineering Manager 2

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 Software Reliability Systems Engineering Manager
2. This position is located in Roy, UT and supports the Sentinel Program. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You'll Get To Do:

Candidate will be responsible to manage a motivated team of Reliability and Maintainability engineers within a matrixed functional organization, ensuring integration and collaboration across design and manufacturing teams under an overarching Systems Engineering framework. Develops, coordinates and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs. Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product software reliability.

Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes. Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards. Analyzes preliminary plans and develops 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, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.

May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data. As a section manager you will manage a team of individual contributors, these individuals may support one or more programs within SDS.

Specific duties to include, but are not limited to the following:

• Direct supervision/management of the Software Reliability & Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) staff
• Providing objective-oriented direction to subordinates utilizing management guidelines & general policies
• Provide performance feedback and salary reviews, training, mentoring, and coaching to your employees
• 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
• Develop, and document Software Specifications and Verification Methodology and ensure all reliability requirements are met
• Work with the Senior RAM-C/CBM+ Manager and leads in establishing personal program and functional goals as well as performing performance evaluations and merit adjustments for subordinates
• Coach, support, train, and motivate team members to ensure a high level of performance
• Collaborate with peers and direct management in resource planning and hiring activities
• Responsible for assessing staffing needs, current as well as projected and working with the respective team leads to address those needs
• Conditioned Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) supporting effort to optimize scheduled maintenance, thereby reducing Lifecycle Cost (LCC)
• Develop CBM+ architecture and tool development
• Conditioned Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) is an effort to utilize predictive maintenance to align unscheduled maintenance…