Design Engineering Manager 1

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

TRAVEL: No

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.

The Deployables operating unit within Northrop Grumman’s Payload and Ground Systems (PGS) division Mission Enabling Products (MEP) business unit specializes in deployable systems for spacecraft such as solar arrays, instrument booms, extendible support structures, and reflector antennas. We are looking for a Design Engineering Manager 1 to lead our Deployable Structures and Mechanisms team in Goleta, CA.

Learn more about Deployables at https://www.northropgrumman.com/space/spacecraft-products 

As a key strategic member of the Northrop Grumman Deployables leadership team, the Design Engineering Manager 1 is responsible for leading the Deployable Structures and Mechanisms team through conceptualizing, designing, building, and testing space flight systems such as coilable booms, telescoping booms, and specialty mechanisms. This manager serves as a central design authority to ensure all programs in the Deployable Structures and Mechanisms value stream are following the most up-to-date processes and best practices and is a major contributing member to all process and design improvements affecting the value stream. The manager also participates in Failure Review Boards (FRBs) and assists in identifying Root Cause and Corrective Actions (RCCA) to prevent failures from reoccurring and helps disseminate all lessons learned on programs to the entire team. This manager occasionally works with Business Development in reviewing bids and proposals for new programs in the Deployable Structures and Mechanisms value stream and is responsible for estimating engineering efforts for new business costing activities. The manager may also serve as a Technical Director (TD) for specific programs within the value stream.

Through collaboration with Engineering product team leads and other functional managers, the Design Engineering Manager 1 is responsible for resource management and prioritization to provide prompt response and situational resolutions to meet all value stream goals and objectives. The manager also supports team member growth and advancement activities such as one-on-one discussions, mentoring, and performance reviews, as well as overall team management activities such as interviewing and hiring new team members. This manager is also responsible for maintaining high performance metrics for engineering on time delivery (OTD) and first pass yield (FPY) as they relate to the release of engineering documents for the value stream.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Guide the technological development of state-of-the-art deployable structures and mechanisms for space applications

• Provide technical oversight and serve as a subject matter expert on deployable structures and mechanisms engineering projects

• Meet engineering safety, quality, delivery and cost expectations of internal and external customers for the deployable structures and mechanisms value stream

• Ensure plans are developed and executed to meet internal and external customer requirements

• Support site goals of high on time delivery and first pass yield by assigning appropriate resources to priority projects and monitoring progress

• Participate in failure review boards and identify root causes and corrective actions to fix issues and prevent them from reoccurring

• Share lessons learned with team members and ensure program teams are informed of current best practices

• Participate in next level leadership reviews and execute improvement actions identified

• Develop and review engineering estimates for new program proposals

• Support team member growth and development, and track team member proficiency in skills critical to engineering execution

• Allocate personnel r