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 Defense Systems is seeking a Sr Staff Electrical Components Engineer. This position is located in Huntsville, AL or Manhattan Beach, CA and supports the Sentinel program. 

What You’ll Get To Do: 

As a section manager you will manage a team of individual contributors within PM&P, these individuals may support one or more programs within SDS.

• Provide performance feedback, training, mentoring and coaching to your employees. 

• Support workforce planning and maintain sufficient depth and breadth of skillsets within your teams core discipline to meet program needs. 

• Responsible for employee performance reviews and supporting employee career development.

• Support development and refinement of processes and tools that support business areas and programs in achieving their missions.

• Support proposal work, independent technical reviews, program standup and audits, and special assignments on an as needed basis.

• Support employee engagement, hiring, development, training, attraction, and retention of top talent.

• Provide technical support to Sentinel program ensuring integration and effective collaboration with design teams to achieve program objectives, including but not limited to:

- Reviews and analyzes released engineering change data and coordinates changes with engineering, quality, support, manufacturing, and engineering data control activities.

- Lead EEEE PM&P engineers in selection and application of Electrical, Electronics, Electro-Mechanical, Electro-Optical (EEEE) parts, including Microcircuits, Connectors, Passive Devices, and Printed Circuit Boards

- Oversee development of Component Specifications or Source Control Documents to meet Program Requirements

- Oversee development and execution of qualifications of new EEEE components for use in new Circuit Card Assembly designs

- Work with manufacturing and Component vendors to resolve qualification, producibility, and test issues with parts and Circuit Card Assemblies

- Familiar with management of new part requests, part objects, and part attributes in a Product Lifecycle Management System.

- Interface with program office on CDRLs, requirement tailoring, and other PM&P issues

- Oversee and adjudicate resolution of issues with interfacing disciplines/functions

- Tailoring and allocating EEEE Part and Circuit Card Assembly requirements to System, Subsystem, and Unit Level Specifications.

- Oversee EEEE PM&P engineers in supporting Program Subcontractors with EEEE Part requirements interpretation and review of Subcontractor Data Requirements Lists (SDRLs)

- Provide mentoring and coaching on technical issues within your area of expertise. 

- Perform risk analysis, trade studies, process improvement analysis, cost estimates, as applicable.

- Tracking to completion tasking and assignments for the team, assisting with workload balancing across team members, collecting metrics, and performing other project management functions for the team as applicable.

- Ensure team members have the required tools and access to perform PM&P responsibilities.

- Collaborate with other engineering assignment managers/leads to align priorities and support overall execution of program objectives.

 

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:  
- Medical, Dent