Sentinel; GBSD FFDR Systems Engineering Manager Campaign Lead

Requisition : R

• Category: Engineering

• Location: Roy, Utah, United States of America | Vandenberg AFB, California, United States of America | Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America

• Clearance Type: Secret

• Telecommute: No
  - Teleworking not available for this position

• Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)

• Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time

• Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available

• Positions Available: 1

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. 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.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a FFDR Systems Engineering Manager 3 Campaign Lead for the Strategic Deterrent Systems (SDS) division Engineering and Manufacturing team. This position will be located in Roy, UT, Vandenberg AFB, CA or Colorado Springs, CO and will provide enabling support for all business areas within the SDS portfolio.

Position Benefits

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

• 401k

• Educational Assistance

• Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions

• Paid Time Off

• Health & Wellness Resources

• Employee Discounts

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

What You’ll Get To Do:

The Sentinel program has an exciting opportunity for a First Flight Design Review (FFDR) Campaign Lead on the Sentinel Systems Engineering team. FFDR is the Sentinel program's major program event (MPE) which establishes that the Sentinel first flight configuration is defined and ready to support the program's First Flight test event. The FFDR Campaign Lead has leadership responsibility for the FFDR MPE;

they lead the development and integration activities for FFDR to enable success at the culminating FFDR event.

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

• Event leader for the FFDR Chair.

• Develops FFDR campaign strategy and associated roadmaps.

• Establishes and conducts lower level / incremental build up activities and Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs) to ensure a manageable risk posture for a successful FFDR MPE.

• Briefing executive program and customer leadership.

• Publishes plans, procedures, checklists and metrics in support of the FFDR MPE.

• Monitors and reports technical, cost, and schedule progress to program leadership, customers, and stakeholders.

• Develops and manages handling plans for risks and opportunities associated with FFDR MPE.

• Ensures content is captured, presented, and delivered on time to support the campaign events.

• Responsible for compiling and delivering the FFDR data package.

• Provide down-and-in event support to other product segment teams across the program.

• Create strong partnerships with other product segment MPE leadership teams.

• Support data reviews.

• Interpretation and implementation advisement for program plans, procedures, and checklists.

• Participate in and provide lower-level execution event surge support as needed.

• Establish and facilitate regular FFDR review / working group sessions regarding readiness metrics related to technical maturity and schedule.

• Establish strong customer relationships and alignment regarding FFDR.

• Provide leadership of event execution and closure of all action items.

• Responsible for auditing the completion of all entry and exit criteria for FFDR.

• Understand the scope and impacts of IMS givers and receivers that support successful FFDR.

• Manage and reforecast the MPE schedule based on coordination with all impacted stakeholders.

• Lead FFDR planning during detailed rolling wave planning activities.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s…