Northrop Grumman-posted 3 months ago
$74,600 - $111,800/Yr
Full-time
Oklahoma City, OK
5,001-10,000 employees
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

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. Our Aeronautics Systems Sector is seeking a Principal Reliability Engineer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for support projects associated with the design and development of communication, navigation, radar, avionics, power and/or electrical systems architecture, components, circuits, and products or aircraft maintenance. The employee will research, develop, design, and test electrical components, equipment, systems, and products for defense systems or commercial purposes. You will become part of Northrop Grumman's Lifecycle Sustainment and Modernization Solutions (LSMS). LSMS provides sustainment support for the US Air Force B-1 and B-2 Bombers, E-3 Sentry, Airborne Warning and Control System, and numerous other Government platforms. Our team members complete engineering, reverse engineering, and logistics solution efforts to solve complex obsolescence problems and ensure warfighter supportability.

  • Develop, coordinate and conduct reliability, maintainability and availability studies and evaluations of engineering design throughout the program life cycle.
  • Provides reliability, availability, and maintainability guidance and leadership/support to various IPTs.
  • Understand Statement of Work/program specification content and applicability to program implementation.
  • Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving the required levels of product reliability.
  • Develops, coordinates, and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts.
  • Develop reliability math models and allocations, Reliability Block Diagrams, Reliability and Maintainability Program Plans.
  • Performs parts derating, reliability parts count/stress and process grades analysis and reliability simulations.
  • Assesses reliability data of fielded systems for the purpose of assessing and documenting RAM and Logistics metrics.
  • Performs reliability analysis, maintainability and logistics analysis, sparing analysis, and simulations.
  • Recommends design or test methods and statistical analysis for achieving required levels of product and system reliability.
  • Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process statistics.
  • Develop mathematical models to identify items posing excessive failure risks.
  • Propose changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or reliability processes.
  • Determines items requiring environmental testing and number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.
  • Develops FMECA to identify criticality levels based on failure rates and severity of the effects of failures.
  • Develops and performs Reliability and Maintainability Demonstrations, Fault Detection/Fault Isolation analysis.
  • Develops and executes ESS, ALT, and HALT plans and procedures.
  • Lead FRACAS meetings, perform FRACAS data mining and trend analysis.
  • Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
  • Contributes to the completion of milestones associated with specific projects and requirements.
  • Provides solutions to a variety of technical problems of increasing scope and complexity as assigned.
  • Support subcontractor evaluation, selection and coordinate activities with respect to reliability needs.
  • Prepare for, present at and participate in design reviews.
  • Effectively engage with external Customers and internal stakeholders.
  • Generate high quality work products on-schedule and on-budget.
  • Identify continuous improvement efforts as reliability engineering tasks are performed.
  • Support program Engineering Configuration Change Board (CCB) and Corrective Action Board (CAB).
  • Ability to interpret Engineering drawings/schematics.
  • Must have at least a Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with a minimum of 5 years of engineering experience or a master's degree in a STEM discipline with a minimum of 3 years of engineering experience or a PhD degree in a STEM discipline with a minimum of 1 years of engineering experience.
  • 2 years of industry experience related to reliability engineering in design and/or product sustainment.
  • Experiences with multiple modeling tools, such as ReliaSoft/RELEX Toolset, used for reliability and sparing analysis.
  • Experience in root cause analysis, test design/execution/data analysis as applicable to accelerated life, reliability growth, and reliability modeling.
  • Experience related to assessing and addressing R&M requirements for design development activities.
  • Experience developing R&M program plans for new systems or for sustainment of existing systems.
  • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
  • Working knowledge of Maintainability and Mil-Std-1472.
  • Experience in the military, government, commercial aerospace industry.
  • Knowledge of Military Specifications, Contract Data Requirements Lists (CDRLs), Data Item Descriptions (DIDs).
  • Knowledge of core reliability and maintainability analysis and activities.
  • Background in performing R&M analysis of aircraft.
  • Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS).
  • R&M predictions and allocations.
  • R&M design influence, requirements assessment and tracking, and maintenance task analysis.
  • System integration and testing, ESS, ALT, HALT, Maintainability Demonstrations, and Reliability Demonstrations.
  • Growth Planning and Testing, and Sparing analysis.
  • Health insurance coverage
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Savings plan
  • Company paid holidays
  • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
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