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Sentinel Nuclear Hardness & Survivability (NH&S) Systems Engineering Manager 2 - 12730-1

Northrop Grumman
UTRO03, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 28 Oct 2025
💰 $202,700/yr($135,100/yr$202,700/yr)

About the role

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 Nuclear Hardness & Survivability (NH&S) Systems Engineering Manager 2 to be located in Roy, UT.

This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You’ll Get To Do:

The selected candidate will be serve as the Nuclear Hardness & Survivability (NH&S) Design Support Manger for the Command and Launch (C&L) Segment. The candidate should be a self-starter and possess strong interpersonal, and leadership skills with the ability to work independently or as part of a team. In this role, the candidate would be responsible for the following NH&S scope of work:

1. Design Support for the Command and Launch (C&L) Segment. This encompasses leading a team that supports requirement decomposition and derivation, trade support, and hardness design analysis. This position will facilitate cross-segment integration by ensuring the system design is hardened to the applicable hostile nuclear environments (radiation, electromagnetic, and mechanical).

2. Derivation of the induced hostile nuclear and non-nuclear weapon environment definitions for the weapon system. This will include the radiation, electromagnetic and mechanical free field and induced requirements for all equipment within the C&L and AVE Segments.

The NH&S C&L Design Manager will have the responsibility for delegation of tasks, overseeing the quality of developed artifacts, and leading a team of engineers. The role works closely with program leadership, the technical leaders, and functional subject matter experts within the NH&S Team. This position is a combination of program management and functional (personnel) management.

Specific duties to include, but are not limited to the following:

• Lead a diverse engineering team to execute technical scope while complying with the program schedule and budget.

• Coordinate Nuclear Hardness and Survivability (NH&S) analysis for facility, infrastructure, and command and control systems.

• Review data deliverables from other teams and subcontractors to include: test plans, test reports, verification methodology, and design analysis reports for hardening of components against requirements on hostile environments.

• Communicate effectively and report regular status to Program Managers, IPT Management, and the government customer.

• Develop and support consistent execution of standard practices, best practices, methods, software and tools across programs.

• Implement lessons learned and continuous improvement plans.

• Lead projects and plans to improve technology, strategic capability, overall design, analysis and production capacity.

• Provide functional management to a team of NH&S engineers. This is includes career development, mentorship, and performance accountability for direct reports.

Position Benefits

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

  • Medical, Dental & Vision coverage  

  • 401k  

  • Educational Assistance  

  • Life Insurance  

  • Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions   

  • Paid Time Off   

  • Health & Wellness Resources   

  • Employee Discounts  

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.   

You'll Bring These Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) and a minimum of 8 years of related experience

• Experience managing people preferred

• Must be a US Citizen with an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of applic

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