Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC) is a leader in advanced development of semiconductor system solutions for the military, aerospace, and commercial markets.  For more than 50 years, we have been offering a wide range of trusted foundry and semiconductor services that deliver high performing and reliable microelectronics. Our wide breadth of technologies and capabilities includes research in advanced computing solutions to provide our customers with unique “More than Moore” solutions. Microelectronics | Northrop Grumman

The Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Design & Applications (MDA) business area is leading efforts to transform computing, combining the unique properties of superconductivity and quantum mechanics to develop revolutionary energy-efficient computing systems. You will work in a fast-paced team environment alongside a broad array of and engineers to make these next generation processing solutions a reality.

We are seeking managers with IPT lead and/or CAM experience to lead our growing platform engineering team in support of the MDA business area.

What You'll Get To Do:

This is a dual-role technical manager position including people management and direct program leadership contribution. The split between program and functional duties will be approximately 80% program and 20% functional, on average. The direct program work may include technical work, IPT leadership, or any other appropriate technical contribution.

Key roles and responsibilities include:

• Supporting a team of 10-15 technical staff in management role. Administrative management responsibilities include staffing, performance and compensation management, and career development.
• Leading program engineering execution for hardware design and deployment projects.
• Responsible and held accountable for labor and material execution through cost account management (CAM) assignments.
• Accountable to stakeholders and program managers for status updates, issue resolution, and overall engineering execution.
• Partnering with program management office to ensure successful execution against cost and schedule targets.
• Providing technical leadership to the team and ensuring proper engineering processes and procedures are followed.
• Work with peers and training leads to identify critical skill shortfalls; develop appropriate technical training; and improve team performance.

This position requires work on site at Northrop Grumman’s Baltimore, MD area facilities in Linthicum or Annapolis Junction, MD.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) with 8+ years of experience (or Master of Science degree with 6 years) within a related engineering field.
• Experience in mechanical design, thermal analysis, or systems engineering including responsibility as an integrated product team or technical lead.
• Strong leadership qualities, including excellent communication and collaboration, team engagement, and organizational skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance with polygraph (US Citizenship is a requirement for this).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Physics, Engineering, Business Management, Engineering Leadership, or equivalent.
• Experience in mechanical design and 3D modeling in SolidWorks, AutoCAD, or NX.
• Demonstrated success leading high performance teams as technical, integrated product team, and/or functional leader.
• Experience with Lean-Agile development for hardware systems.
• Experience leading teams in a functional, programmatic, or technical capacity.
• Experience generating Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) models and diagrams for hardware platforms.
• Training in Mechanical Design Engineering Risk and Quality Management.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

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