Sentinel - Staff Engineer Systems - Life Cycle Cost Team

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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.

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is hiring a Staff Systems Engineer – Life Cycle Cost Team. This position is in Roy, Utah and will support the Sentinel program. Northrop Grumman supports the Air Force’s sustainment, development, production and deployment of hardware and system modifications for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Ground and Airborne Launch Control Systems, Launch Facilities and associated infrastructure.

What you will get to do:

Staff Systems Engineer – Life Cycle Cost Team (level 5). This opportunity applies engineering economic analysis to support technical decision-making across the entire system lifecycle, from early concept development through design, production, operations, and sustainment. Cost Engineering represents a unique sub-discipline of Systems Engineering that integrates cost considerations into system architecture, design trades, and lifecycle planning of a program.

This role collaborates with engineering and program teams to develop cost- and value-informed insights that influence system design and execution. This position requires a balance of technical understanding, analytical rigor, and business acumen to ensure engineering decisions are informed by both system performance and lifecycle affordability considerations.  Candidate should have a foundational understanding of Systems Engineering and require knowledge or applied experience in the following analyses: Should-cost, Life Cycle Cost (LCC), Design to Cost (DTC), and Cost Reduction Initiatives (CRI).

For this position, we are especially looking for a technical subject matter expert on Should-cost estimation for aerospace and defense statements of work or analogous commercial program experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Should-cost analysis & decision support
• Lead should-cost engineering analyses efforts for supplier statements of work using tools such as SEER-H, SEER-M, and other similar tools.
• Perform should-cost analysis by research of analogous products and systems
• Analyze supplier bills of materials and estimate material and labor cost organically, with minimal supplier data input to be able to challenge supplier-produced estimates.
• Support Global Supply Chain discussions and negotiations with recommendations for should-costing of supplier statements of work.
• Perform similar should-cost estimates for hardware produced internally by Northrop Grumman Defense Systems.

• Cost estimating & modeling (development / production / sustainment)
• Develop and/or validate cost estimates using appropriate methods (analogous, parametric/CER-based, bottom-up), including data normalization and documentation of assumptions, ground rules, and basis-of-estimate
• Build, maintain, and improve cost models and estimating relationships; incorporate historical actuals, learning/improvement curves, and technical/production data
• Collect and synthesize cost inputs from engineering, manufacturing, subcontractors, and vendors; maintain historical cost data for reuse