Manager Systems Engineering 1

Northrop Grumman • Buffalo, NY

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About The Position

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a dual-role technical manager for its Engineering and Sciences organization, based in Buffalo, New York. The position supports the development and production of simulation systems and contributes to the company’s enterprise-wide digital transformation. Approximately 75% of the role is allocated to technical responsibilities, with management duties involving tasking and coordinating approximately 6–10 engineers and coordinating processes and resources with functional homeroom management.

The successful candidate will balance interpersonal, leadership, and technical capabilities; work effectively in a team and across sector business areas; and collaborate with other managers and engineering disciplines. The role involves communication with internal and external customers and suppliers, and work within schedule and budget constraints. The manager supports project execution throughout the product lifecycle, with an emphasis on meeting or exceeding customer and stakeholder requirements, and provides technical contributions to assigned programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and at least 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Understanding of Electronic Warfare simulation of threat radar systems.
• Knowledge of radar signal characteristics.
• Experience with functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Experience analyzing complex problems and developing solutions.
• Experience with the DOORS requirements management tool.
• Experience with design reviews.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for technical audiences.
• Ability and willingness to travel to domestic and foreign locations as needed.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance and obtain special access program eligibility.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in a relevant technical or management specialty.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Ability to make difficult decisions that affect team direction and performance outcomes.
• Active Department of Defense Secret security clearance, with eligibility to obtain Sensitive Compartmented Information and special access program eligibility.
• Electronic Warfare or Electronic Warfare threat experience.
• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering concepts and tools, including Cameo and Rhapsody.
• Experience in an integration and test environment evaluating complex electronic systems.
• Experience developing and managing cost accounts and schedules, including earned value management, for Systems Engineering tasks.
• Expertise using RF test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, and time-domain analyzers to measure and verify interpulse and intrapulse modulations and radar scan patterns.

Responsibilities

• Manage and execute employee performance review processes.
• Create and support department policies, procedures, and budgets.
• Provide direction and information from upper management and the organization.
• Mentor employees and support career development and training opportunities.
• Create an inclusive and engaging environment that promotes employee retention.
• Support hiring, staffing, workload forecasting, and identification and training of skills required to execute programs.
• Support or lead project execution across the product lifecycle, emphasizing customer and stakeholder requirements.
• Revise and manage specification and interface definition documents and expedite them through signature approval.
• Identify risks, suggest mitigations, track defects, develop resolutions, and report status.
• Support trade studies, system performance and design assessments, timelines, and concept of operations development.
• Support system design, data analyses, interface verification, testing, failure and anomaly resolution, and mission operations.
• Support testing or evaluation and validation of system or subsystem analytical models or actual system implementations.
• Provide technical contributions to assigned programs, including subject matter expert reviews for milestone events such as SRR, PDR, CDR, and TRR.
• Facilitate and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Oversee cost, schedule, and technical quality for Systems Engineering and Integration (SEIT) execution on supported programs.
• Lead technical proposal efforts, including formal and ROM proposals, and generate Bases of Estimate.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and 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.
• Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results.
• Vice President or Director employees may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

What This Job Offers

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