Principal Engineer Logistics

Northrop Grumman

73d • $79,100 - $118,700

About The Position

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. The qualified applicant will become part of the Northrop Grumman (NG) Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) Logistics Team. Creating maintenance tasks for various IBCS components. Develop logistics products to support NG and the Army customer. Perform task and requirements for Validation and Verification events. The position will be in Huntsville, AL. The selected applicant will perform as a Logistics Engineer and provide Maintenance Engineering for NGC programs to help ensure maintenance requirements are addressed and accomplished. The candidate will work with other Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) personnel, system engineers, technical publications teams, configuration management, and Government maintenance representatives to develop Logistics Product Data (LPD) for the IBCS program. The desired candidate must understand the various aspects of maintenance concepts, engineering technical drawings, and supportability analysis to support the program requirements.

Requirements

• 10 years with an associates degree; 8 Years with bachelor’s in science; 6 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD.
• Excellent computer skills combined with a mastery of Microsoft Office.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Exercising a high degree of initiative and exhibiting advance organization skills.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance standards with supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to solve a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fluid environment with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience working in a government or government contractor environment.
• Basic understanding of logistic elements; supportability, maintainability, and logistics support.
• Ability to travel to other Northrop Grumman and customer locations (20%).
• Able to meet the requirements for attaining a Secret clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Must have current/active Secret clearance.
• Solid understanding of Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), Supportability Analysis (SA), and maintenance concepts.
• Understanding of maintenance organizational structures as applied to the Army’s two-level maintenance concept.
• Develop with assistance spares analysis, support equipment requirements, and personnel necessary to optimize the maintainability and reliability of the end item.
• Powerlog-J or similar system for Logistics Product Data development.
• Maintainability Assessment (MA) and Maintainability Evaluation (ME) for operator and field maintainer maintenance and technical manual validation demonstrations.
• Logistics Demonstration (LD) field maintenance requirements and technical manual validation.
• LD test plan and test procedures development.
• Develop the Product Support Package Components List (PSPCL).
• Critical Faults List.
• Critical Fault Insertion Event Selection List.
• Microsoft Office Suite experience.
• Microsoft Word, Excel Spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations.
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis tool experience: COMPASS, Visual SESAME, PowerlogJ, or similar tool.
• Agile Engineering.
• Participating in planning and estimating Sprint planning KANBAN methods.

Responsibilities

• Basic knowledge of maintenance organizational structures as applied to the Army’s two-level maintenance concept.
• Research and provide analysis of equipment and failures.
• Assist in the development of Level of Repair Analysis (LORA)/COMPASS tool Supportability Analysis and develop a LORA verified Maintenance Allocation Chart (MAC).
• The Visual Selected Essential-Item Stock for Availability Method (SESAME) tool experience and spares development.
• Identifies and reports safety hazards associated with the maintenance of a system or component.
• Support reliability and maintainability analysis (RAM) for equipment readiness.
• Technical writing for maintainability tasks.
• Identify logistics impacts to technical data package approval.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company paid holidays.
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree