Systems Engineering Section Manager
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems has an opening for a System Engineering Section Manager on the STRIKE program to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, Florida. The selected candidate manages a section of Systems Engineers reporting to the Specialty Engineering Department Manager within the STRIKE Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) Engineering Integration & Execution (EI&E) on a 20% allocation. Responsible for the direct supervision/management of the staff. Responsible for providing objective-oriented direction to subordinates utilizing management guidelines & general policies as well as maintaining their current technical statement of work for the remaining 80% of the work week. Management responsibilities include: planning and program performance addressing cost, schedule, technical performance, and quality of a system/mission thread work packages, subsystems, or related group of work packages or across multiple interrelated programs with full responsibility for all aspects of technical performance on large system development-type contracts, large delivery orders or mid-size technical services-type contracts.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 9 years engineering experience - OR a Master’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 7 years of engineering experience
- Recently demonstrated knowledge of Systems Engineering practices
- Candidate must have and be able to maintain an active U.S. Government security clearance at the DoD Secret or Top Secret level and Special Program Access.
- Candidate must have the ability to obtain a Strike Program Access Request (PAR)
Nice To Haves
- Advanced STEM Degree
- Experience in one or more of the following Specialty Engineering Disciplines: system safety engineering
- Previous Systems Engineering leadership experience.
- Experience in the military aerospace development environment is preferred.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management
- Active, In scope DoD Top Secret or SCI clearance
- Previous or existing Strike Program Access Request (PAR)
Responsibilities
- Conducts weekly flow down meetings with assigned staff
- Attends weekly flow down meetings with the Department Manager
- Supports staffing needs as assigned
- Conducts goal planning, performance evaluations merit budgeting
- Provides technical guidance related to process and training to staff
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
