Sentinel Program Technical Assessment Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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Northrop Grumman Defense has an opening for a Principal Systems Engineer to join its Guidance Computer team in Roy, UT in support of the Sentinel Program. 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 join the Systems Engineering Strategy and Technical Assessment (SESTA) team. You will contribute to the efficient execution of Systems Engineering (SE). Duties include, but are not limited to:

• The development and publishing key top-level SE processes and policies for the program along with leading top level SE working groups.
• The development, facilitation, and tracking of technical processes, strategies, assessments and metrics for the program to ensure effective technical measures enable execution of the SE strategy.
• Work with multiple Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to understand the metrics and improve engineering products and processes
• Work with engineering tools to extract, automate, and report data from various databases to leadership and customers
• Identifying gaps within our processes to enable stakeholders to fix issues
• Develop top-level engineering processes and governance including the Systems Engineering Management Plan

• Degree in Engineering and 5 years of experience with a Bachelors, 3 years of experience with a Masters, and 1 year of experience with a PhD
• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need
• Strong Systems Engineering skills (3+ years) with experience participating in Systems Engineering Technical Review milestone events
• Ability to effectively communicate and present technical details to peers, and stakeholders
• Experience with Dynamic Object Oriented Requirement System (DOORS)

• Active Sentinel SAP clearance
• Experience briefing status regularly to…