Sr Principal Chief Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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 Payload and Ground Systems (PGS) division, Mission Enabling Products (MEP) Business Unit is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of products including spacecraft panels, lasers, spacecraft bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, antenna reflectors, aircraft and missile components. Our products have applications in air, naval, weapons, laser, and space products that power and enable satellites of all classes and have been on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years.  

The Structures Operating Unit within the MEP Business Unit designs, manufactures, and tests composite structures for air and space products and is seeking an experienced, highly motivated Chief Engineer for the Aircraft & Missiles Product Line/Value Stream to join our team. The representative candidate will have demonstrated strong and successful leadership abilities. This position is required to be onsite with a primary office location in San Diego, CA (Miramar). 

Roles and Responsibilities (What You'll Get to Do):

The chief engineer is responsible for the technical direction and execution of all aspects of engineering on a program including design, development, implementation, integration, testing, and delivery of product to the customer. The chief engineer is the senior technical leader for the program engineering team, and also serves as technical advisor and delegate to the program manager.  The chief engineer ensures that all engineering teams adhere to sound engineering processes, in accordance with company policies, procedures, and quality standards. This includes maintaining cognizance over technical activities within program's Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and ensuring horizontal integration of the best engineering practices across the company. The chief engineer may also perform systems engineering and program management related roles and functions as necessary.

• Exemplify NG’s Values and Leadership Behaviors as a senior technical leader
  • Sets a Vision
  • Builds a High Performing Team
  • Takes Ownership
  • Leads with Courage
  • Responds to Challenges with Resilience
  • Acts with Speed
• New business development
  • Engage customers and guide technical spec and requirements evolution to better position business for technical success
  • Serve as technical lead for proposals providing technical input, risk assessment, and performing initial requirements compliance matrix assessment
• Customer support and value
  • Be the voice of the customer
  • Communicate NG’s technical value to the customer
  • Perform or lead architecture trade studies, early program technical interaction, communicate customer goals (written or implied)
  • Serve as technical representative for customer and beyond including site management through proposal and all engineering phases
• Resolve technical issues
  • Guide technical decisions and arbitrate conflicts
  • Acts as chair for program and product value stream design control during developmental phase of the program
  • Participate in and or lead FRB/MRB activities
  • Provide escalation following established tiered Escalation Process
• Support IRAD and product technology development to support current and long-term business needs
  • Maintain an awareness of customer needs, market / industry trends, and latest tech developments
  • Represent the product line and advocate for IRAD and tech developmen