Principal Reliability Engineer-OKC
Northrop GrummanAbout the role
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.Our Aeronautics Systems Sector is seeking a Principal Reliability Engineer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for support projects associated with the design and development of communication, navigation, radar, avionics, power and/or electrical systems architecture, components, circuits, and products or aircraft maintenance. The employee will research, develop, design, and test electrical components, equipment, systems, and products for defense systems or commercial purposes.
You will become part of Northrop Grumman’s Lifecycle Sustainment and Modernization Solutions (LSMS). LSMS provides sustainment support for the US Air Force B-1 and B-2 Bombers, E-3 Sentry, Airborne Warning and Control System, and numerous other Government platforms. Our team members complete engineering, reverse engineering, and logistics solution efforts to solve complex obsolescence problems and ensure warfighter supportability.
This Reliability Engineer will help develop, coordinate and conduct reliability, maintainability and availability studies and evaluations of engineering designs throughout the program life cycle (business capture, development, production and sustainment). This person will help support efforts within our LSMS area, to include technical planning, system integration, ground and flight testing, verification and validation, airworthiness, cost and risk, reliability / maintainability, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.
Responsibilities:
Develop, coordinate and conduct reliability, maintainability and availability studies and evaluations of engineering design throughout the program life cycle (business capture, development, production and sustainment
Provides reliability, availability, and maintainability guidance and leadership/support to various IPTs, ensuring program requirements and performances are understood
Understand Statement of Work/program specification content and applicability to program implementation, e.g., reliability and availability requirements, requirement allocations and flow down to lower assembly levels
Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving the required levels of product reliability
Develops, coordinates, and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts
Develops reliability math models and allocations, Reliability Block Diagrams, Reliability and Maintainability Program Plans
Performs parts derating, reliability parts count/stress and process grades analysis and reliability simulations
Assesses reliability data of fielded systems for the purpose of assessing and documenting RAM and Logistics metrics and reliability (cumulative and instantaneous) growth trends
Performs reliability (MTBF, MTBCF, MTBUR, Ao, Am) analysis, maintainability and logistics (LRU, MTBM, MTTR, MDT, LDT, TAT) analysis, sparing analysis, and simulations which support military and industry standards
Recommends design or test methods and statistical analysis (AMSAA Planning Model and Reliability Growth Curves, Bayesian, Weibayes, Monte Carlo, Exponential, Poisson, Binomial, Weibull, Duane, Crow-AMSAA, etc.) for achieving required levels of product and system reliability
Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting reliability and maintainability
Develop mathematical models to identify items posing excessive failure risks
Propose changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or reliability processes
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