SMC2 Manager Systems Engineering 3

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.

Northrop Grumman’s Command and Control & Weapons Integration (CWI) Division, delivers innovative and advanced Command and Control (C2) capabilities, full life-cycle platform and mission systems modernization, to maximize weapon systems effectiveness through its Weapons Integration & Mission Solutions (WIMS) and Global Command and Control Solutions (GC2S) Business Unit (BU).   Within the GC2S BU, the Strategic & Mobile C2 (SMC2) Operating Unit (OU) provides solutions for tactical mobile C2, global situational awareness, joint and offensive fires, and strategic nuclear C2 and C3 capabilities.  Northrop Grumman is seeking a Functional Engineering Department Manager for the SMC2 OU. 

The selected candidate will report direct to the GC2S Engineering Director and will be part of the GC2S Engineering Leadership team.  This position will have functional responsibility to grow and develop the SMC2 engineering staff and collaborate with their SMC2 OU functional counterparts to drive and ensure successful program, IRAD, Capture and Proposal execution.   The primary place(s) of performance for this position will be in Bellevue, NE, Huntsville, AL, Newport News, VA, and Space Park, CA.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Accountable for engineering execution on programs and NCTA-funded efforts, to include support for solving execution concerns, establishing engineering foundations and technical baseline management, and supporting engineering reviews, such as BOE, startup, proposal color team, SAARRs and independent reviews.
• Supports the BU Engineering Director for implementing common processes, tools and predictive metrics aligned to sector, division and site-specific PrOP
• Accountable for engineering management oversight, to include implementation of common processes, tools and predictive metrics aligned to sector, division and site-specific PrOP
• Responsible for conducting OU-level engineering reviews, IAW C101, reviewing proposal BOEs requiring OU-level approval, SPW capture and DPW capture that originate from within the SMC2 OU
•  Responsible for confirming technical solutions for all proposal originating from the SMC2 OU, to ensure the solution is architected IAW NG policies and guidance, uses enterprise solutions appropriately and conforms to applicable industry standards and best practices
• Advocates, champions and leads Engineering Focus Area Priorities and Initiatives across all disciplines of engineering, both within and across programs
• Accountable for assigning qualified engineer on programs and NCTA activities including proposals, RCCAs, RTG activities, startup reviews, color review teams, SAARR, and overall fulfillment of staffing demand as identified by program demand planning POCs
• Accountable for monitoring staffing assignment end dates with sufficient time to redeploy employees to their next assignment without gaps in direct charge coverage
• Accountable for ensuring Functional Managers on-board new hires and providing forecast demand for staffing needs and reporting progress towards targeted goals
• Responsible for assessing staff and determining focus areas to address monthly promo/equity/reclass cycles to synchronize with division
• Responsible for maintaining technical talent plan and succession plan for key roles and critical skills.
• Responsible to develops staff to ensure quality program execution and prepare for future execution
• Responsible for executing performance management duties that, e.g., working with the employees to ensure their success, one-on-one engagement meetings, assisting with goal development, working, helping to ensure employees have engaging assignments, etc.
• Responsible for managing indirect labor budgets and other indirect controllable costs to assigned targets
• Accountable for ensuring FMs and individual contributors’