Sr Staff Engineer Electronics

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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for Senior Staff Electronics Engineer to join the team of qualified individuals on our Avionics organization. This leadership role is located onsite in Palmdale or Rancho Bernardo, Ca

The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct. This position will be within our Avionics Integration Organization.

Roles and Responsibilities will include:

• • Drive issue resolution in the field pertaining to complex data center and communication systems
• • Manage Root Cause Corrective Actions, drive root cause analysis and their associated resolutions for field technical issues
• • Technical execution of maintenance and sustainment support of ground segment systems in the field
• • Provide performance status, drive execution and facilitate all associated communications with key stakeholders to include Field Response IPT leadership, enterprise liaison engineers and Mission Engineers
• • Manage Integrated Functional Capability of fielded systems
• • Responsible for Operational Configuration Control (OCC) and Configuration Change Board (CCB) for all fielded systems, ensuring that proposed changes are properly reviewed, authorized, implemented, and documented to maintain the integrity of the operational baseline
• • Review technical information prior to submission to the Configuration Change Board (CCB)
• • Ensure thorough technical CCB package generation and provide technical oversight (expertise to RE’s)
• • Deliver presentations and technical packages to customers, management and program stakeholders
• • Manage cross engineering function action items
• • Approve modification implementation management
• • Measure and report status relating to modification performance
• • Serve as change agent for change Implementation process & culture
• • Coordinate with multiple stakeholders; including responsible engineers, program leadership and the customer community regarding technical, staffing resources and schedule pertaining to your statement of work
• • Produce, review, and coordinate technical change documentation
• • Champion and defend priorities for resolution of deficiencies through Technical and Software Review Boards
• • Review and develop technical publication material
• • Define, deliver and implement monthly cyber patches
• • Support Maintenance Review Boards
• The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 14 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 10years of related engineering experience
• Must have experience in troubleshooting of small to large scale infrastructure
• Must have experience in managing projects from concept through implementation
• Must have solid understanding of engineering process with execution experience across the program lifecycle
• Must have experience in conducting Root Cause Corrective Action analysis and the subsequent execution of a timely Corrective Action Plan
• Must have leadership experience leading a technical team
• At minimum, an active U.S. Government Secret Clearance is required to apply and to start the role with, with the ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the Company to meet its business needs and
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