Sentinel - Test Engineering Manager 3 (9377-1)

Northrop Grumman•Roy, UT

1d•$151,500 - $227,300•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Test Engineering Manager 3 for the Sentinel program, located in Roy, Utah. This role involves managing a department within the Test Engineering organization, reporting to the SDS Test Engineering Director. The selected candidate will set operating objectives and provide mentorship to Functional Home Room (FHR) Section Managers, offering oversight and assistance to multiple programs within the Division portfolio (Sentinel/GBSD, ICBM Sustainment and Advanced Programs). Responsibilities include managing planning, risk, project performance, addressing schedule and technical quality, and resolving technical or operational problems. The role also involves developing and maintaining talent within the organization, interacting with equivalent level managers, and acting as a systems thinker to influence positive change aligned with business strategies. The successful candidate will lead the Flight Vehicle Test Department team, focusing on setting a vision, building a high-performing team, driving execution, leading with courage, responding to challenges with resilience, and acting with speed. Key responsibilities include excellent communication, mentoring, interpersonal skills, collaboration with senior management, ownership of people, processes, and tools, accountability for recruiting and retaining talent, supporting proposal work, leading improvements in employee engagement and development, mentoring section managers and employees, reviewing engineering change data, instilling process excellence, interpreting organizational policies, leading special projects, and advising staff on schedules and technical/operational problems.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 8 years of related experience; Master's degree and 6 years of related experience or an additional 4 years of related experience in lieu of a degree
Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need
Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams supporting the development, integration, verification, and/or execution of complex aerospace, defense, or government programs
Working knowledge of test engineering, integration and test, and/or flight test principles throughout the product development lifecycle
Experience mentoring and developing engineers through coaching, career development, succession planning, and performance management
Demonstrated ability to lead through organizational change while maintaining employee engagement, accountability, and execution
Demonstrated experience driving continuous process improvement and engineering excellence.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to leadership and cross functional stakeholders
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
Experience on ICBMs

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree with 9 years of experience in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) preferably an Engineering degree
Experience on ICBMs
Minimum of 3 years in a formal management position
Proven performance as an Engineering Leader in all phases of acquisition, design, integration and execution
Candidate will require ability to rapidly assess and lend guidance to projects assigned to the organizational group as well as demonstrated mentoring and guidance to engineers
Ability to bridge between theoretical concepts and practical implementation, performing associated trade analyses
Ability to communicate technical analysis to a variety of stakeholders with different backgrounds and expertise
Working knowledge and/ /or experience across engineering disciplines
Experience on ICBMs
Experience creating or growing new sections or departments
Experience managing test teams or organizations
Familiarity with Agile engineering and JIRA
Active Top Secret Clearance

Responsibilities

Set operating objectives and provide mentorship to Functional Home Room (FHR) Section Managers based on Engineering goals, objectives, and company policy.
Provide oversight and assistance to multiple programs within the Division portfolio (Sentinel/GBSD, ICBM Sustainment and Advanced Programs) to provide the people, skills, and processes for successful achievement of program goals.
Manage planning, risk, project performance, addressing schedule, technical quality, and addressing technical or operational problems when necessary.
Assist engineers and program staff to develop and maintain talent within the organization.
Have frequent contact with equivalent level managers and programs to maintain and exceed health and performance for all programs.
Act as a systems thinker with a track record of working across the organization to influence positive change aligning to business strategies.
Lead a team of test engineers for the Flight Vehicle Test Department.
Develop and communicate a clear vision for shaping, growing, and enabling the Launch Silo IPT to meet and exceed its obligations.
Partner with Functional leadership to build, maintain, and implement mentoring, succession, and development plans.
Develop and execute staffing plans that achieve financial and programmatic strategic goals.
Drive execution across a diverse, multidisciplinary team, meeting cost, schedule, and technical performance metrics.
Communicate progress, challenges, and plans with clarity and conciseness.
Instill a culture of empowerment and accountability that enables the team to efficiently meet or exceed obligations.
Build strong partnering relationships with customers, industry partners, and internal organizations and proliferate this partnership across the Launch Silo IPT.
Perform proactive risk and opportunity management.
Leverage strong partnerships to navigate setbacks and implement recovery plans that maintain forward momentum.
Leverage leaders within the Launch Silo IPT to make timely and credible decisions while performing advocacy across a broad stakeholder community to ensure buy-in and mitigate delays.
Implement process improvements and strategic initiatives where necessary to maintain and increase execution velocity.
Provides ownership for the people, processes, and tools that support business areas and programs in achieving their missions.
Accountability for recruiting, staffing and retaining talent to deliver on the objectives.
Supporting proposal work, independent technical reviews, program standup and audits, and special assignments on an as needed basis.
Owning and leading improvements across employee engagement, hiring, development, training, attraction, and retention of top talent.
Mentor, develop, and train your section managers, and overall employee base.
Reviews and analyzes released engineering change data and coordinates changes with engineering, quality, support, manufacturing, and engineering data control activities.
Instill process excellence, communications, training, certifications and continuous improvement across the organization.
Interpret, execute, and recommend modifications to organizational policies.
Lead or Manage Special Projects.
Act as an advisor to staff members to meet schedules or resolve technical or operational problems.