Manager Systems Engineering 1

Northrop Grumman • Buffalo, NY

3d • $121,000 - $181,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is hiring a dual-role technical manager for its Engineering and Sciences organization in Buffalo, New York. The position supports the development and production of simulation systems and the company’s enterprise-wide digital transformation. Management duties include coordinating approximately 6–10 engineers and working with functional homeroom management on processes and resources. Approximately 75% of the role is allocated to technical responsibilities. The manager collaborates across business areas and engineering disciplines, communicates with internal and external customers and suppliers, and helps deliver work within schedule and budget constraints.

The role combines people management with systems engineering technical leadership. It includes employee performance and career development, department policies and budgets, staffing and workload forecasting, and oversight of systems engineering execution across cost, schedule, and technical quality. Technical work spans the product lifecycle, including requirements and interface definition, trade studies, system assessments, design, analysis, testing, anomaly resolution, mission operations, milestone reviews, and proposal efforts. Travel is required; the posting cites up to 10% in the position details and up to 15% based on need in the qualifications.

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 up to 15% based on need.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance and obtain special access programs.

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 programs.
• Electronic warfare or electronic warfare threat experience.
• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering concepts and tools, including Cameo and Rhapsody.
• Experience in integration and test environments for evaluating complex electronic systems.
• Experience developing and managing earned value cost accounts and schedules related to 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 communicate flow-downs 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, and workload forecasting, including identifying and training the skills needed to execute programs.
• Support or lead project execution across the product lifecycle, emphasizing meeting or exceeding customer and stakeholder requirements.
• Revise and manage original and revised specification and interface definition documents, and expedite them through signature approval.
• Identify risks, suggest mitigations, track defects, develop resolutions, and track and report status.
• Support trade studies, system performance and design assessments, timeline development, and concepts of operations.
• Support system design, data analysis, interface verification, testing, failure and anomaly resolution, and mission operations.
• Support testing or evaluation and validation of system or subsystem analytical models or implementations.
• Contribute technically to assigned programs, including subject matter expert reviews for milestone events such as SRR, PDR, CDR, and TRR.
• Maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Oversee cost, schedule, and technical quality for systems engineering and integration execution on supported programs.
• Lead technical proposal efforts, including formal and ROM proposals and Basis of Estimate generation.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
• 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 and allow employees to share in company results.
• Vice President or Director employees may be eligible for long-term incentives.
• Relocation assistance may be available.

What This Job Offers

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