Platform Vehicle Lead (Manager 3)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top 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.

This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems (NGAS) sector has an opening for a Platform Vehicle Lead (Manager 3) for a new program within Multi-Domain Command and Control (MDC2), a sub-IPT within the of the Global Surveillance Division part of the Aeronautics Sector.  This role is located in Melbourne, Florida and is fully onsite with no remote work available.

Job Summary: The Vehicle Lead will report to the Chief Engineer, support the Program Manager, and lead a cross-disciplinary Vehicle Engineering (VE) team inside the Air Vehicle IPT responsible for the development and integration of the Air Vehicle design. This role will work within the program IPT structure to perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.  The role will have a key role in working with major suppliers for airframe manufacturing and design and will have technical oversight of all vehicle engineering (VE) activities ensuring that the program is adhering to sound principles in the development, production, test and sustainment of products.  The VE lead will ensure work products are thorough, of a high quality, and are compliant with project contract requirements and NGAS processes and procedures.

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong excellent communication, mentoring, interpersonal skills, and the ability to collaborate with senior management, peers, and employees to work with the cross-function engineering team. 

Additional responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements / drawings into requirement and drawing systems to control the vehicle configuration. 

• Acts as the key approver for program and technical review boards representing Vehicle Engineering requirements, highlighting impacts and risk to the Vehicle scope of work. 

• Understands the application and development of functional and physical architectures, interfaces, and requirements in large systems, using SysML/UML and the linkage with the drawing environment to set a technical baseline

• Overall execution, staffing, performance (cost, schedule, and technical), and reporting (technical and program).

• Develop VE metrics to support program and technical status (staffing, technical, supplier)

• Working in conjunction with the Chief Engineers and Program managers to support a robust Risk and opportunity program, provide Vehicle risk, and impacts and work planning and mitigation with the vehicle team.  

• Work with all Vehicle supplier responsible REs to understand supplier impacts to plan

• Serve as a Cost Account Manager (CAM) and oversee all VE CAMS to support the IPT Program Manager, ensuring proper planning and execution within an established cost and schedule baseline.

• Generate Basis of Estimates (BOEs) in support of future proposal efforts and coordinate approval and associated reviews

• Coordination and management of resources requirements with VE area Leads in support of program execution based on the detail plan

• Coordination with downstream disciplines such as procurement and manufacturing.

• Strategic planning for future program phases for Vehicle areas

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 10 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience