Senior Principal Reliability Systems Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

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.

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.
 
We are looking for you to join our team as a Senior Principal Reliability Systems Engineer to join our Airborne Multifunction Systems (AMS) organization. This position is based out of Linthicum, MD and will be 100% on-site.

What you’ll get to do: 

The Senior Principal Reliability Engineer will define and implement reliability engineering programs to achieve Customer (both internal and external) and program reliability objectives. 

• Develop, coordinate, and conduct reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design for development, production, and sustainment phases.

• Support requirement allocations and flow down to lower assembly levels.

• Develop reliability analyses (e.g., reliability predictions and complex system modeling, FMECAs, de-rating, RBD development, Fault Tree). 

• Working knowledge of reliability technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and statistical concepts.

• Define and implement reliability FRACAS (failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system) programs to prioritize opportunities for affordability improvements.  

• Chair/organize Failure Review Boards (FRBs), completing data mining, identifying trends, prioritizing failure modes, investigating, and ensuring effective corrective action closure. Provide feedback into root cause and correct analysis (RCCA) initiatives.

• Develop plans and lead reliability growth programs (including reliability growth analysis, scoring conference support, etc.).

• Support subcontractor evaluation, selection, and coordinate activities with respect to reliability needs.

• Prepare, present and participate in design reviews.

• Effectively engage with external customers and internal stakeholders to generate high quality work products on-schedule and on-budget.

• Generate high quality work products on-schedule and on-budget.

• Identify continuous improvement efforts as reliability engineering tasks are performed.

• Support program Engineering Configuration Change Board (CCB) and Corrective Action Board (CAB).

• Interpret Engineering drawings/schematics.

 
This position is contingent upon contract award and the ability to obtain an active DoD Secret Clearance or the successful transfer of an active DoD Secret Clearance prior to start. 
 
Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience, master's degree with 6 years of experience or a Ph.D. with 4 year of experience in Physics or related Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics technical fields; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• U.S Citizenship required.

• A final DoD Secret Clearance. 

• 5 years of experience collaborating across functional teams, including systems engineers, design engineers, component engineers, mission assurance, manufacturing, test, and program management, resulting in successful project outcomes.

• 5 years of experience performing reliability predictions utilizing standards such as Mil-Hdbk-217, VITA 51.1, physics of failure (PoF),