Systems Engineering Manager 2 (IPT Lead) – OneSat Boom Assembly

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

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.

An organization within Northrop Grumman’s Payload and Ground Systems (PGS) division, Mission Enabling Products is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, and antenna reflectors. Our products are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years. Our facility in Oxnard, CA is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager (IPT Lead) to support one of our major programs within the Deployables Operating Unit.

Learn more about Mission Enabling Products at: https://www.northropgrumman.com/space/spacecraft-components

Overview

The Systems Engineering Manager (IPT Lead) will be part of the Mission Enabling Products Business Unit Systems Engineering Organization and serve on the OneSat Program team.  Programmatically reporting to the OneSat Program Manager.  The Systems Engineering Manager 2 (IPT Lead) is responsible for overseeing the design, analysis, manufacturing and delivery of the Boom Assembly for the OneSat program. The successful individual will lead a cross-functional organization aligned to common program performance goals for the Boom Assembly product line and sub-assemblies to include in Boom Segments, Drive, Hinge, and Harnesses. 

The Systems Engineering Manager (IPT Lead) may also support other operating units with subsystems such as optics, thermal, structures, propulsion, power management and control, and lasers. Work is performed at all levels of total system product including concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, in-orbit deployment, and operation. The successful candidate will ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. The Systems Engineering Manager (IPT Lead) will also perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, change management, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware specifications along with reviewing and overseeing design tailoring to meet specification requirements. The successful candidate will be able to communicate the required inputs and resulting outputs along with the associated context to team members, individual contributors, program management senior leadership and the customer.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership to a cross-functional Integrated Product Team (IPT) to meet program cost, schedule, and technical execution for the Boom Assembly build and delivery

• Coordinate with Business Management for review of Earned Value metrics and Control Account Management

• Coordinates work statements and specifications, operating budgets and financial terms/conditions of contract to meet contractual deliverables

• Lead the development and execution of project budgets and schedules, including Earned Value Management System (EVMS), critical path management, and workload forecasts

• Provide regular schedule execution inputs to Scheduling

• Manage multidisciplinary teams in Systems Engineering, Design and Analysis during design, analysis, manufacturing, and delivery phases of products in development and production phases

• Coordinate with Value Stream Leader for overall production efficiency and needs from Manufacturing Technicians

• Interface with cross-functional teams to include Quality, Assembly and Test and monitor execution

• Interpret statements of work assigned by program leadership

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