Aeronautical Design Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Uncleared

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Aeronautical Design Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Vehicle Engineering organization. This role is located in Rancho Bernardo, CA
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In this role, you will need to thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative/team settings across all levels. You will be responsible for collaborating across a multi-disciplinary team of engineers responsible for developing, modifying, and maintaining aircraft design configurations using current engineering practices and standards. Some responsibilities you can expect include conceptual design, preliminary / layout, and detail design, drawing release, design review presentations, and support to fabrication.

You must be an experienced designer who can flourish in a dynamic work environment and excel in complex technical problems that require innovative solutions. Overall, you will support functional, sector, and program long range business goals and objectives, lead a project and task through to completion and mentor to support knowledge management through your excellent communication, writing, and presentation skills.

• Lead, mentor, train and collaborate with team of engineers.

• Provide technical oversight and technical support to other disciplines as required.

• Responsible for cost and schedule associated with SOW.

• Lead internal program, customer and/or supplier technical exchange meetings and/or formal program milestone reviews to provide and/or obtain progress status updates.

• Interface with relevant stakeholders, including cross-functional teams, customers, and suppliers, to ensure robust and maintainable configurations are produced.

• Consults on design and integration of composite materials and their applications

• Leverages advanced knowledge of aircraft structure concepts including best practices for material selection of materials and metallic/composites trade analyses

• Capture best practices in designing various aircraft systems including composites and/or metallic and their associated requirements for composites and/or metallic structures.

• Perform design related tasks utilizing the NX, CATIA, Fibersim and Teamcenter tool suite.

• Integrate subsystems components and structural configurations into various types of aircraft applications.

• Perform GD&T activities associated with producing and manufacturing of designs.

• Ability to design for affordability leveraging Agile methodology.

• Lead proposal activity including evaluating and providing proposal technical inputs and cost estimation.

• Lead tasks and managing tasks/projects efforts to balance schedule, cost and quality.

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline AND at least 12 years of related professional or military experience in mechanical or aerospace engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline AND at least 10 years of related professional or military experience in mechanical or aerospace engineering, OR a Ph.D. in a STEM discipline AND at least 8 years of related professional / military experience in mechanical or aerospace engineering.

• Must have experience with CATIA and Teamcenter PLM.