Manager Engineering 2

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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 is seeking a Section Manager, Engineering 2 to lead the (E-130J)  Reliability & Diagnostics Section. This role reports to the PS Engineering Department Manager on the (E-130J) program. This leadership role is located on-site, based in Melbourne, FL.

The Section Manager provides leadership and oversight for the development, sustainment, and integration of logistics elements across a project, with primary expertise in Reliability, Maintainability, Prognostics Health Management, and Integrated Health Management Systems. This role ensures program objectives for Product Support are achieved by coordinating across engineering, operations, and sustainment disciplines, while providing functional oversight and governance of logistics requirements.  

This position will partner closely with PS Department Manager to monitor technical, cost, and schedule commitments through effective alignment of staffing, execution processes, and disciplined use of engineering tools. The Section Manager forecasts staffing needs on a rolling 12-month cycle, ensures staffing requirements are entered into POST, and ensures talent is deployed, transitioned, and onboarded in sync with program demand.

This leader plays a critical role in execution program requirements while aligning functional capabilities with program needs, enabling successful execution across cost, schedule, quality, and technical performance.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Identify and communicate design and issue impacts across the larger logistics community on the program to drive design changes and ensure all program and customer requirements are addressed.

• Prepare and manage project schedule and budgets to include EVMS and prepare status reports on the health of the projects.

• Identify risks and opportunities and coordinate with project teams to mitigate and retire risks.

• Assess issues and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.

• Prepare briefings for management/customer and develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and tools for intervention and problem solving with project managers, suppliers and clients.

• Provide reliability subject matter expert advice on assigned program.

• Provide management, guidance and development of the Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Testability Engineering Team

• Review and disposition (as required) of system drawings in CAD, NX, Solidworks, specifications and other engineering technical data…includes Northrop Grumman, Supplier, and Government furnished technical data.

• Development oversight of model for meeting Reliability mission requirements

• Interface between the reliability organization and other functional elements of the capture program.

• Provide advice to Systems Engineers regarding their responsibilities in accordance with the Reliability Program.

• Lead reliability engineering reviews.

 

Our Leaders at Northrop Grumman live our values daily and encourage our teams to do the same. We do the right thing: upholding the highest ethical standards and facilitating a safe and respectful environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. We do what we promise: holding yourself and others accountable to meet predictable and balanced results. We commit to shared success: operating as OneNG and removing barriers for our teams. Finally, We pioneer: setting a vision that shapes the future and inspires others.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university AND 9 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering, OR a Master’s degree AND 7 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.

• Must be willing and able to travel to various site locations to participate and represent the Product Support IPT.

• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated U.S. government Secret clearance (must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.

• Must have ability to obtain and maintain US Government Top Secret Clearance

• Experience with Root Cause Analysis, FRACAS, FMEA/FMECA or related Reliability Engineering work

• Experience with reading and understanding technical data (e.g., Technical Orders, Engineering Drawings, Parts Lists, Bills of Material, Engineering Specifications, etc.)

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.

• Exercising a high degree of initiative and exhibiting advance organization skills.

• Demonstrated ability to solve a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity.

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fluid environment with diverse stakeholders.

• Understanding of logistic elements; maintainability, supportability, and reliability.

• Understanding of CAMEO requirement management

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a STEM field (Mechanical or Electrical).

• Final adjudicated U.S. government Top Secret Clearance.

• Recent experience with Cameo, Magic Draw, or other MBSE tools such as Rhapsody, Sparx EA, and Enterprise Architect.

• Experience with military aircraft maintenance, operations, and sustainment.

• Practical hands-on experience performing: Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, FRACAS, ESS, Reliability Testing, Root Cause Analysis, FMEA/FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis, sparing analysis, and related engineering work.

• Experience with or exposure to digital design initiatives and solutions to include Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Model Based Sustainment (MBS)

• Experience using CAMEO Enterprise Architecture

• Experience with Life Cycle Cost Analysis and Modeling/Simulation

Primary Level Salary Range: $126,600.00 - $189,800.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.