Manager Structural Engineering 1

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance required for start:
No.

Clearance type:
None.

Travel:
Yes, 10% of the time.

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Manager Structural Engineering 1 to join our MEP Team in San Diego, California. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. The role is part of the Mission Enabling Products (MEP) Business Unit which designs, builds, and delivers space, defense, and aviation‑related systems to customers worldwide.

As a Manager you will supervise as the Analysis Value Stream Leader (VSL) for Reflectors & Booms product lines, providing programmatic and technical analysis leadership to the PASS Operating Unit (OU). You will be responsible for quality, technical execution, schedule, and cost, managing the product value stream analysis team and collaborating with program leadership, manufacturing and testing teams, technical leaders, and functional subject matter experts within MEP.

• Analysis authority for value stream – experience with composite analysis, material properties, and allowables, dynamic analysis, static analysis, etc.
• Manage resources in collaboration with analysis functional manager – escalation, assignments, employee reviews, development, DLY management, hiring, recruiting, and verification of work completeness and accuracy.
• Own program performance – SQDEC daily management, escalation of technical, schedule, and financial issues, lead/support peer reviews at product level, track first pass yield (FPY) and on‑time delivery (OTD) for analysis value stream.
• Program execution and support of program requirements – ensure technical compliance, manage risk assessment and management across programs in value stream, identify needs for allowables development, ensure static/dynamic test plans are properly coordinated with tool design group, BOE’s and assumptions in support of proposals.
• Standardize and improve analysis processes within value stream – focus on lessons learned, best practices, and continuous improvement implementations.

• Assess structural integrity of metallic and composite structures using traditional closed‑form solutions and finite element analysis (FEA).
• Interact with design and development teams (Design, Quality, Materials, Manufacturing) to create and verify design solutions that meet all technical, cost, and schedule requirements.
• Generate finite element models and perform FEA for normal modes, linear static stress, dynamic response/stress, thermo‑elastic distortion, and hygroscopic distortion.
• Support development of flight hardware from preliminary through detailed design, drawing release, manufacturing, integration, verification testing, and transportation.
• Plan and oversee material characterization tests of various materials used in the design of composite structures.
• Reduce material characterization test data into analysis input properties and material capability properties.
• Prepare and present summaries of structural assessment results for internal review boards and external customer design reviews.
• Assist in assessment and disposition of discrepant hardware and hardware anomalies.

• Bachelor of Science degree in STEM with 5 years working in an engineering environment.
• Demonstrated leadership experience of an engineering team on structural analysis efforts.
• Experience in space and aerospace structural analysis of composites structures, including bonded joints, sandwich panels, and metals.
• Experience with product definition (specifications, SOWs, drawings) and design and verification processes.
• Experience with finite element analysis, composite laminate theory, and dynamic analysis.
• Experience with composite materials manufacturing processes and applications for extreme environments.
• End‑item test analysis and support experience including static load testing, dynamic testing (sine, sine burst, random, acoustic, modal), and thermal exposure (thermal cycling and thermal vacuum).
• Experience in constitutive model development and implementation.
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