Sentinel - Model Design & Analysis Configuration Section Manager

Model Based Design and Analysis Configuration Section 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 has an opening for a Model Based Design and Analysis Configuration Section Manager 2 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in Roy, UT or Colorado Springs, CO.

This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

Candidate will be responsible for managing a motivated team of senior design engineers within a matrixed functional organization, ensuring integration and collaboration across design teams. The Design and Analysis Configuration (DAC) team focuses on the management of the Sentinel EMD Weapon System Product Baseline configuration maturation through program wide collaboration with Design, Manufacturing, Test, and Systems Engineering functions in a dynamic and evolving program environment.

The team develops and implements the Weapon System product effectivity scheme in Siemens Teamcenter throughout all development, test, qualification and operational configurations across the four Sentinel Business Units and multiple classification networks.

The team leads the development of novel Product Baseline management solutions in Siemens Teamcenter to enable the management and delivery of a complex Weapon System data product within the construct of the customer's digital strategy vision. The team serves as a lynchpin for program milestones through final design integration responsibilities and management and delivery of Technical Data Package Contract Data Requirement Lists (CDRLs).

The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation. The successful candidate will approach management of the team and execution of their responsibilities with an outside-the-box mentality and be willing to explore atypical solutions to address the unique complexities of the program.

The successful candidate will demonstrate ability to communicate effectively across engineering disciplines and up to program senior and executive leadership. Must be able to work collaboratively to resolve issues, determine priorities, and implement solutions. Candidate experience with management of product baseline management and data product delivery across all phases of a large vehicle platform or weapon system platform program is preferred.

The candidate will provide the following but not all-inclusive technical support to the Sentinel program:

• Provide technical experience as related to the implementation and dissemination of engineering product baseline processes to support Design Engineering.
• Support our suppliers with design authority and ingestion of supplier data products into the Sentinel Digital Environment in support of our customer's digital strategy and vision.
• Manage technical data to meet program milestones, including managing risk and opportunities.
• Provide mentoring and coaching on technical issues within your area of expertise.
• Perform risk analysis, trade studies, process improvement analysis, cost estimates, as applicable.
• Tracking to completion tasking and assignments for the team, assisting with workload balancing across team members, collecting metrics, and performing other project management functions as applicable.
• Collaborate with design process and…