Director of Sentinel Systems Integration

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

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 Defense Systems sector is looking for a Director of Sentinel Systems Integration in our SDS Division. This leadership role is located in Roy, UT. 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. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You Will Get To Do:

Lead the Sentinel System Integration and provide support to the Sentinel SEIT Segment’s Software and System Integration Team (SSIT) IPT Director. Responsibilities include leadership over the following areas:

The SI Director leads the integration of Weapon System Life Cycle Cost, System Design Integration, Configuration and Data Management, and Liaison Engineering. The SI Director's priorities will be focused on Sentinel program execution and Systems Engineering products developed and delivered with high standards of quality and according to the contract.

• Leadership of a matrixed technical organization

  • Responsible for cost (CAM), schedule and technical performance of work execution

  • Responsible for your team’s technical planning of work and task integration across the program for agile execution

  • Responsible for work prioritization and its communication and management to enable effective and efficient work execution of your team and the interaction across segment and IPT boundaries

• Weapon System Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis

  • Weapon System level characterization for system performance optimization and predictions

  • Sub-system and element level MS&A compilation and integration for full System representation and realization

• Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability

  • Reliability allocation and full decomposition to support design solutions and system integration

  • Reliability basis for transitioning from design reliability to the Aging & Surveillance probability predictions for Weapon System operation and sustainment

• Life Cycle Cost

  • Oversee a team determining and managing the lifecycle costs of system design maturation through operational support and sustainment.

  • Directing the life cycle cost team through estimating for engineering, building/constructing, delivery, installation/deployment, operations, sparing strategy, maintenance, and full system sustainment activities for the life of the system

• System Design Engineering

  • Develop governance and guidance for design engineering across a broad program

  • Integrate the workflow of hundreds of designers into a single weapon system solution

  • Lead the stress analysis governance for the program including establishing a fracture control program

• Interface Development

  • Oversee team’s development of interface requirements and verification plans between segments of the weapon system and between the Sentinel weapon system and external Government systems

  • Coordinate interface test and qualification with product and system test organizations

  • Oversee development of multiple cost reports to inform government stakeholders

• Configuration and Data Management

  • Oversee all tools and processes for data item and product end item configuration control, identification, and delivery

  • Oversee team responsible for program engineering board administration

• Liaison Engineering

  • Lead team integrating the work of manufacturing with engineering across