Safety Reliability & Launch Integration Engineering Manager 3 - Space Systems

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

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.

This position is for a Senior Manager of Systems Engineering within the Systems Engineering (SE) Directorate.  The selected candidate will be based in Dulles or Gilbert and will lead an SE department, including management of front-line managers, that supports the launch systems integration, reliability and system safety efforts for NGSP Tactical Space Systems Division. The Senior Manager receives general strategic, business, and administrative direction from the Director of Systems Engineering Services and has authority to make engineering decisions and recommendations that have an impact on new business, program performance, design, development, and mission operations.

In addition to performing Functional Manager duties, the selected candidate is expected to be mostly self-directed and leverage previous experience to effectively lead a department responsible for launch vehicle integration, reliability and system safety efforts across programs in all TSSD business units. The prospective candidate should have extensive experience in at least launch vehicle integration/operations, reliability engineering or system safety, and have some familiarity with all three, as duties will leading activities in all three areas and performing activities in at least one. The candidate should also have experience across the full program lifecycle. The position includes both functional/personnel leadership duties and direct work in support of programs with an anticipated equal time split.

RESPONSIBILITIES:              

• Functional Responsibilities Include:
  • Lead the technical-staff planning, assignments, career development, compensation planning and performance management for the assigned Systems Engineering department
  • Lead and participate in SE peer reviews and support formal program reviews.
  • Identify SE skills & experience needed for program execution and participate in the recruiting, hiring and training of new SE staff
  • Participate in developing solutions to complex analytical, design and test problems that meet program needs
  • Support new business development, including review of technical and cost volumes, detailed BOEs and support of baseline review activities
  • Direct and coordinate the development of system requirements and specifications for various systems through multiple program phases.
  • Take responsibility for activities, including pre-proposal analysis, proposal development, mission and system analysis, specification and interface development, design review, testing, problem resolution and customer interactions.
  • Prepare weekly status reports and periodic technical reports for senior management to document individual and collective programs and BD status.
  • Partner with production and I&T to determine the engineering feasibility and cost effectiveness of both new and existing products.
  • Direct and review the work of SE staff, ensuring its completeness, accuracy and adherence to sound technical procedures.
  • Support EVMS baseline generation, tracking/maintenance and variance analysis for programs within the business unit
  • Functional personnel management of an SE Department and front-line SE managers
• Launch Systems Integration responsibilities include:
  • Define and verify space vehicle-to-launch vehicle interface requirements and support space-vehicle launch-campaign management activities at a variety of launch sites (Kwajalein, Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg AFB, Baikonur, etc).
  • Manage interface with customer safety and launch integration personnel (NASA GSFC/JPL/…, DoD/USAF/…, etc), and support ground operations and launch mission working groups.
  • Interface with launch vehicle providers, including Space X (Falcon 9) and United Launch Alliance (Atlas V) to ensure each space vehicle is integrated, tested, launched and operated safely and reliably.
• Reliability Engineering responsibilities include:
  • Develop, coordinate and conduct technical reliability, maintainability and availability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts
  • Analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability and maintainability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability and maintainability objectives.
  • Perform reliability analyses (Reliability predictions, FMECAs, FTAs, etc), review Engineering Change Proposals, and generate formal whitepapers and failure reports.
  • Develop reliability program growth plans and conduct reliability growth analysis.
  • Identify opportunities for improvement based on review of failure data and support development and implementation of system design improvements.
  • Identify Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) trends to identify and prioritize failure modes to investigate for corrective actions.
• System Safety Engineering (including ground, range, and flight safety) responsibilities include:
  • Perform fundamental aerospace safety tasking, including generation of fault trees, functional hazard analysis, FMEA/FMECA, software system safety analysis, sneak circuit analysis, bent pin analysis, and system/subsystem hazard analysis.
  • Interpret system requirements, customer specifications, and military standards to develop appropriate safety requirements for hazard mitigation or elimination.
  • Identify & analyze hazards, develop & implement appropriate hazard controls, and follow-through to ensure controls are appropriately implemented in training, designs, procurement, manufacturing, assembly, test, storage, and hazardous operations by personnel supporting assigned programs
  • Generate and update required System Safety documents, including SSPP, RHA, SCA, FTA, BPA, SSHA, SDP, SARs.
  • Apply environmental, military, federal, national, and industry regulatory safety standards and codes, including MIL-STD-882, NASA Standards (8719.9, 8719.17, 8719.12), AFSPCMAN 91-710, NIOSH, OSHA, NFPA, DOE, CFR, ASTM, ANSI, RCC, AFOSH, & PESHE.
  • Apply engineering principles to assess design compliance of a complex aerospace system and synthesize rationale and justification for Ground/Range/Flight Safety relief requests and product non-compliances. 
  • Analyze existing Integration and Test processes to demonstrate customer and internal requirements are met for both safety and mission success, whether at the launch site, or at our facilities in Gilbert, AZ and Dulles, VA.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must have U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain a Top Secret/SCI Clearance
• Bachelors Degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university plus 9 years of applicable experience, or a Masters Degree plus 7 years of applicable experience
• Extensive technical experience in at least one of the following disciplines: launch systems integration; reliability/maintainability; and/or system safety
• 2 years of management experience
• Excellent communication skills, presentation experience and the ability to work seamlessly with a diverse community of engineers and managers to achieve the goals of the systems team.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Current active TS or TS/SCI Clearance
• Functional engineering management in aerospace
• Significant knowledge of Reliability & Maintainability, and experience conducting reliability analyses/verification (FTA, FMECA, reliability predictions)
• Significant knowledge of System Safety Engineering design/verification practices.
• Significant knowledge of launch-vehicle-to-spacecraft interface requirements/verifications & launch campaigns
• Ability to read and interpret Engineering drawings/schematics – both mechanical & electrical.
• System engineering requirement/verification tools and processes
• Requirements development and management processes
• Development and maintenance of interface control documents and related processes
• Space system/mission analysis and design
• Space system testing and evaluation (flight and ground testing)
• Personnel development, performance assessments, mentoring and conflict resolution
• Mission Operations for launch and spacecraft on-orbit testing/commissioning
• EVMS
• Existing program accesses

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Salary Range: $187,700.00 - $280,600.00

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.