Sentinel - Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - Emergency Response Coordinator

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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 Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - Emergency Response Coordinator. This position will be in Roy, Utah and will support the Sentinel program. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

The system safety team executes to a vast scope of work, interacting with a broad range of stakeholders internally and externally. The team ensures environmental safety and occupational health compliance, identifies hazards and associated causes and mitigations, inputs data into a hazard tracking system, identify safety critical items, identifies and tracks hazardous materials, ensures explosive safety and appropriate hazardous risk communication, supports government safety review boards and audits, and plays a pivotal role in test range safety as focal point between program and Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) Space Launch Delta 30 (SLD 30).

The key processes, regulations, and requirements key to the system safety team include but are not limited to:

• MIL-STD-882E, DoD Standard Practice – System Safety o AOP-52, Allied Ordnance Publication 52 JSSSEH, Joint Software Safety Engineering Handbook
• AFI 91-208, HERO certification and Management
• DESR 6055.09 AFMAN 91-201, DoD Explosive Safety Program Plan
• AFMAN 91-203, Air Force Occupational Safety, Fire, and Health Standards
• 29 CFR 1910, Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
• AFSPCMAN 91-710, Range Safety User Requirements Manual
• AIAA S-113A, Criteria for Explosive Systems and Devices on Space and Launch Vehicles
• RCC 319-19, Flight Termination Commonality Standard
• RCC 324-11, Global Positioning and Inertial measurement Range Safety Tracking Systems Commonality
• SAE-AS50881 Rev F, Wiring Aerospace Vehicles

The selected candidate will have the opportunity to work all aspects of the system safety engineering discipline. This will include analyzing and recommending design features to meet safety criteria in system design to control or eliminate hazards, active participation in design of products/systems, support equipment and facilities. The creation of functional specifications and establishing safety requirements for assigned systems, developing documents, as required, to support customer and test/operational range requirements, performing audits of operational areas and observing procedures to report on effectiveness of the system safety program are also within scope to this role. This individual will also be instrumental in guiding the system safety team through writing requirements for incorporation into DOORS, working in and maneuvering in CAMEO, and verification and validation efforts.

Additionally, the Sr. Principal Engineer is expected to coach and mentor fellow team members to successful program execution, while working toward long-range goals and objectives without appreciable direction. Serving as a representative on the project for the System Safety team, the Sr. Principal Engineer will act as an advisor to management and customers/stakeholders on significant technical matters often requiring coordination between organizations. The selected candidate should demonstrate a proactive approach to problem solving by identifying issues effecting the team and program then voluntarily working to resolve through innovative solutions and applying advanced technical principles, theories and concepts. The Sr. Principal Engineer will help drive execution to the program schedule within cost and time constraints as a technical lead for the team.

Finally, the selected candidate for this role will fill the Emergency Response (ER) Coordinator position. This position requires extensive experience in explosive ordnance emergency response, familiarity with mishaps and mishap recovery involving the Department of Defense and civil agencies, and familiarity with Northrop Grumman b