GNC Engineering Mgr 2 - Secret (Chandler)

Northrop Grumman • Chandler, AZ

2d • $139,100 - $208,700 • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is hiring a first-line engineering leader to manage a group of approximately 8–20 Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) engineers in Chandler, Arizona. The manager owns workforce health and execution across multiple programs and related priorities, while developing technical depth, integrated delivery, and a scalable leadership bench. The role is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommuting. It follows a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off, and requires 10% travel. Relocation assistance may be available.

The position provides senior technical leadership for missile-based GN&C system development, including guidance, autopilot and control, tracking, target-state estimation, modeling, simulation, integration, and verification. The manager leads people and teams, sets organizational priorities and staffing plans, manages technical and workforce risks, and coordinates across engineering, software, test, digital engineering, program management, and customer-facing teams. Employment is contingent on obtaining final clearances and program access within a reasonable period determined by the company.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of professional experience, or a master’s degree and 6 years of professional experience; an additional 4 or more years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance at the time of application, current and within scope.
• Demonstrated success managing leaders and/or multiple engineering teams, with accountability for workforce execution, staffing, performance, development, and delivery outcomes.
• Professional GN&C experience with missile-based systems, including meaningful depth in guidance, autopilot/control, and tracking or state estimation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading larger or more complex teams, organizations, or multiple work streams developing, analyzing, integrating, or verifying missile-based GN&C systems.
• Technical leadership in missile guidance algorithms, including midcourse, terminal, intercept, trajectory-shaping, and/or target-engagement guidance functions.
• Technical depth in missile autopilot and control-law design, analysis, and verification, including stability, robustness, gain scheduling, actuator dynamics, vehicle dynamics, and flight-software integration.
• Experience with seeker tracking and target-state estimation using infrared and/or radio-frequency sensor systems, including sensor modeling, measurement processing, filtering, track formation and maintenance, and uncertainty characterization.
• Experience leading navigation modeling and simulation, sensor and algorithm performance assessment, mission analysis, and verification strategy development.
• Experience leading technical integration across flight software, digital-engineering environments, hardware/test organizations, and verification campaigns.
• Experience supporting advanced weapons, tactical strike systems, interceptor programs, missile-defense applications, and/or space-flight systems.
• Experience leading technical execution in low-altitude, high-speed, high-dynamic, glide-phase, degraded-GPS, or other challenging flight environments.
• Ability to communicate complex technical results, program risks, execution tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior engineering, program, and customer stakeholders.
• Leadership that demonstrates integrity, ethical conduct, balanced results, partner satisfaction, respect for growth, collaboration, customer trust, strong communication, and adaptability.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering organization delivering GN&C capabilities across multiple programs, products, or work streams; establish operating priorities, staffing plans, and execution rhythms.
• Develop and lead managers, technical leads, and engineers through performance management, succession planning, mentoring, workforce development, recruiting, and retention actions.
• Provide senior technical leadership for missile-based GN&C system development, including guidance, autopilot/control, tracking, target-state estimation, modeling, simulation, integration, and verification.
• Own escalation, prioritization, resource tradeoffs, and execution recovery for complex technical, schedule, and workforce risks.
• Drive cross-functional integration among systems engineering, flight software, test, digital engineering, program management, and customer-facing technical teams.
• Ensure technical approaches, verification strategies, and program decisions reflect mission needs, system performance, and program risk.
• Represent GN&C capabilities, performance risks, and investment needs to senior engineering and program leadership.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company-paid holidays
• Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business
• Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position
• Relocation assistance may be available

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager