Systems Engineering Manager 2
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. If forging a secure future excites you, look no further! Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector provides an arena where your passion for innovation and quest for exploration are welcome. As a Systems Engineering Manager – Level 2 your role at Promontory, UT will be pivotal in supporting missions critical to national and global security. Ready to join forces with our visionary team? The Systems Engineering Manager is responsible for all systems engineering support required to meet program demands assigned to their group which may include NASA products, defense, strategic and commercial products. They are responsible to work with the Chief Engineers and Program Leadership to support key program objectives. Systems Engineers at Propulsion Systems actively participate in the development of new solid rocket motor or booster level systems and system upgrades by managing architecture, requirements, verification, and integrated change control processes in a disciplined, broad reaching process, to ensure our propulsion systems projects perform to specification, satisfy customer needs, and maintain configuration integrity throughout the lifecycle of each product. The systems engineering manager will continue to support the projects they are assigned, typically in a lead role, in addition to personnel management responsibilities. This position will require periodic assignments at the Bacchus (Magna), UT location. This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of professional experience.
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance
- 8+ years of experience working in Systems Engineering or in Integration Design or a related field in propulsion, preferably in a government contractor environment
Nice To Haves
- Experience leading teams associated with supporting propulsion systems products
- Experience with increased leadership responsibility working and collaborating with teams
- Formal education in Systems Engineering principles; a graduate certificate in Systems Engineering is highly preferred
- Experience with architecture, requirements, and verification modeling in MBSE tools
- Experience developing plans and detailed schedules to accomplish an engineering effort
- Experience with NX modeling or familiarity with the benefits of 3-D model designs
- Experience with manufacturing processes associated with design of solid rocket motor products
- Experience with digital thread methodology
- Experience with risk and opportunity management
Responsibilities
- Manage systems and integration support for projects based at Promontory, UT
- Perform managerial responsibilities to include goal setting, quarterly personnel check-in reviews, merit and bonus determinations, rewards and recognition, and navigation of other human resource management scenarios as they arise
- Coordinate with customers and program team members to understand the intent and needs of the integrated system
- Evaluate and manage customer requirements and derived flow down into subsystem and component specifications as appropriate
- Analyze the needs of the system and translate into verifiable performance and design requirements
- Support associated verification approach and work with engineering teams to develop analysis and test results to support stakeholder requirements
- Integrate customer directed changes into the system and facilitate implementation of changes within a change management system
- Coordinate and communicate between multiple cross-functional subsystem teams
- Develop model architecture for model-based integration of requirements, design, analysis, and verification
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- health insurance coverage
- life and disability insurance
- savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Relocation assistance may be available
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
