SDS Director of Sentinel Systems Integration and Sustainment- Systems Engineering Director 2

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.

Northrop Grumman’s Defense Systems sector is looking for a Director of Sentinel Systems Integration and Sustainment- Systems Engineering Director 2 in our SDS Division headquarters in Roy, Utah. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You Will Get To Do:

Lead the Sentinel Systems Integration and Sustainment (SIS) Operating Unit, reporting to the Vice President for Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT).

The Sentinel strategic missile program is one of the largest and most complex system integration projects in history, with hundreds of missiles, hundreds of operating facilities, millions of lines of code, thousands of support equipment and training devices, and hundreds of technical training programs to enable industry and USAF operate and maintain the system without fail in the most challenging conditions. A successful SIS Director will provide the experience and vision to drive extremely diverse system-level integration and sustainment plans for hardware and software delivered by dozens of product teams, and the mature judgment to navigate complex technical and program interfaces across NG system segments, the acquisition customer, and other government mission partners. Responsibilities include the following areas:

• Systems Integration and Sustainment Operating Unit Leadership

  • Build and manage a 250+ person team distributed across multiple national sites

  • Lead workforce, cost/schedule, and technical functions - Profit & Loss accountability

  • Partner with senior Air Force officers to jointly manage priorities

  • Lead and execute special assignments and internal R&D projects

• System Functional Capability Integration

  • Oversee strategic roadmap and system engineering definition translating abstract mission functions to incremental Integrated Functional Capabilities combining flight, ground, and test hardware and software developed by federated product teams.

• Design Integration

  • Oversee strategy and execution of product lifecycle data standards and management of massive design data and end item data sets across product teams and suppliers – effective for EMD, production, and sustainment extending decades into the future

  • Build a team to facilitate product design package release process, product effectivity, and interfaces with production scheduling

  • Oversee configuration data and change management teams to control complex technical and compliance baselines across multiple product segments and suppliers

• Enterprise Integration

  • Oversee collaboration with Government program office, mission partners, and other contractors in enterprise-level CONOPS maturation and joint risk management

  • Collaborate with the USAF customer and other Government mission partners to define and drive interoperability development of external national systems interfacing with Sentinel, from requirements to successful multi-segment operational testing.

  • Orchestrate formal operational certification strategy across engineering, infrastructure, manufacturing, deployment, test, and field support teams.

• Support & Training Integration

  • Oversee joint Product Support planning with USAF, spanning interim contractor support enabling early operational capability, through transition to USAF sustainment over a decades-long life cycle. Work with Northrop Grumman product teams to validate support equipment designs from missile transporters to ground testers.

  • Oversee development of training programs, technical orders, and training devices from launch console simulators to weapon system mockups to train field maintainers.

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