Senior Principal SEIT Engineer (IPT Lead)
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.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 Senior Principal SEIT Engineer (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-products
Overview
Reporting directly to the Director of Engineering, the Senior Principal SEIT Engineer (IPT Lead) will be part of the Mission Enabling Products Business Unit Systems Engineering Organization and serve on the Speargun Program team. They are responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team in the areas of Requirements, Verification & Validation, Radiation, Reliability, Configuration Management, Test Engineering, Test Set Design, Test Software, and Parts, Materials & Process (PM&P) engineering.
Work is performed at all levels of total system product including requirements definition, preliminary to final design, fabrication, test, and installation. 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 Senior Principal SEIT Engineer (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 Top 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
Lead multidisciplinary teams in Systems Engineering, Design and Analysis during design, analysis, manufacturing, and delivery phases of products in development and production phases
Coordinate with the Program Chief Engineer to resolve technical issues, and maintain the technical baseline through ERB/CCB
Interface with cross-functional teams to include Quality, Assembly and Test and monitor execution
Interpret statements of work assigned by program leadership
Interface with functional departments to secure team staffing
Assist the Program Office in briefing internal and customer leadership on progress of work assigned
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in a STEM disci
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