Sr Staff Systems Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time

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Northrop Grumman Space Systems Sector is seeking a Sr. Staff Systems Engineer to serve as a Sr Staff Producibility Architect in Gilbert, Arizona.

The ART operating unit (OU) within the Space Superiority Division seeks a senior engineer with spacecraft systems experience to lead our new deliverable producibility initiative.  As the OU’s Productibility Architect, this engineer will work with teammates across the entire development lifecycles of our products to identify opportunities to increase production rates while maintaining a focus on quality.  The Producibility Architect will be located in our Gilbert, AZ facility, and will report to the OU Office of the Chief Engineer and OU Profit and Loss leaders.  Specific duties include, but are not limited to:

• Maintaining product lessons learned databases, establishing actionable plans for implementation of process enhancements to incorporate lessons learned, collaborating across the engineering, manufacturing and AI&T teams to ensure plans are executed and maintaining metrics that capture quantitative measures of enhancement effectiveness

• Working with systems engineering and AI&T teams to identify opportunities for testing automation based on cost-benefit analysis and developing detailed roadmaps for implementing the automation

• Collaborating with Mission Assurance and Systems Engineering Functional Groups to develop detailed mission risk classification tailoring plans for OU products, based on Government standards, and performing as the liaison to customer engineering leadership to help ensure our approach meets customer mission risk classification needs per our contracts

• Working with NG Division, Sector and Corporate groups to explore use of AI/ML across the development lifecycle of our OU products in order to reduce touch labor and shorten production timelines

• Coordinating with manufacturing work centers to execute value stream mapping events and internal audits to enhance producibility

• Audit of OU program processes with focus on streamlined execution, culminating with functional and mission assurance leadership to codify approved, rapid development and manufacturing processes for OU products

• Independent reviewer of OU program system engineering processes, supporting appropriate tailoring of program System Engineering Management Plans (SEMPs) to facilitate rapid design cycles and more efficient verification and validation of products.

 

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 14+ years of engineering experience, or Master’s degree in a STEM discipline with 12+ years of engineering experience

• Full lifecycle Systems Engineering experience as applied to spacecraft development

• Experience with spacecraft subsystem design and test

• Familiarity with Government Mission Risk Classification processes and their application to space systems

• Experienced technical leader with proven capabilities to support complex, constrained program execution in short timelines

• Active or current U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance

• 7+ years of experience with spacecraft systems engineering

• 3+ years of experience with spacecraft subsystems engineering and test

• Basic understanding of AI/ML

• High rate production and/or product line experience

• Excellent communication skills (oral and written), and experience briefing senior stakeholder leaders

Primary Level Salary Range: $166,500.00 - $249,700.00

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.