Senior Staff Internal Technical Trainer
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. An organization within Northrop Grumman, Mission Enabling Products (MEP) is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, and antenna reflectors. Our products are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years. Our Deployables Operating unit is seeking a Senior Staff Internal Technical Trainer to support technical training efforts for the Deployable Structures & Mechanisms portfolio of programs. This portfolio includes production programs of complex motorized composite structural elements that enable remote sensing and communication programs. This position is 100% on-site and may be located at either our Goleta or Oxnard, CA sites.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 14 years relevant experience; OR 12 years relevant experience with a master’s degree; OR 10 years with a PhD
- Established experience in the development and delivery of training programs or courses
- Demonstrated ability to formally present technical solutions to senior leadership
- Technical expertise in design, test, or manufacture of space craft components
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills
- Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues
- Strong MS Office knowledge, specifically with PowerPoint
- Ability to travel between the Goleta and Oxnard, CA facilities
- US Citizenship is required
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- Experience in the design, test, or manufacturing of deployable hardware
Responsibilities
- Designs, schedules, delivers and tracks technical training
- Establishes training and education modules and ensure consistency in the delivery of technical training and on-boarding
- Provides train-the-trainer program and qualifies all area trainers for content delivery
- Partners with functional managers to develop training materials, and knowledge assessments, for area standard operation procedures (SOP's) and coordinates knowledge assessment
- Utilizes training authoring and multimedia tools and software for assigned development projects
- Remain current in training and development research, learning theory, motivation theory, and new materials, methods, and techniques
- Provides technical leadership, direction and mentoring to other technical employees
- Acts as advisor to management, co-workers and customers on advanced technical research studies
- Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious
Benefits
- health insurance coverage
- life and disability insurance
- savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- overtime
- shift differential
- discretionary bonus
- Annual bonuses
- Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
