Manager Specialty Engineering 2

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.

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field or an industry thought-leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security.  Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.  Come be a part of our mission!

The Navigation, IMU, and Specialty Engineering team is looking for you to join our team as a Specialty Engineering Manager 2 based out of Woodland Hills, CA.

The Specialty Engineering team supports all product areas across the Navigation and Cockpit Systems (NACS) business unit encompassing specialty engineering areas such as reliability, maintainability, logistics, and systems safety.  This role will focus on management of functional subject matter expertise associated with programs ranging from early development through production.  The functional department manager provides personnel management to the team including career development, goal setting, performance reviews, salary planning.

This position is 20% functional management and 80% direct program support.  This is a 100% onsite role.

What You’ll get to Do:

• Assist in the development and implementation of department vision and strategies to drive employee engagement; improve hiring, development, training, and retention of top talent; balance process compliance against innovation; and reduce bureaucracy
• Staff resource planning
• Lead a team comprised of reliability, safety, logistics, maintainability, cybersecurity, and other specialty engineers supporting multiple programs
• Conduct performance and salary reviews
• Mentor and challenge team members to develop skills and provide career planning/development paths
• Develop and implement strong processes with emphasis on quantitative management and continuous improvement
• Ensure organizational compliance with corporate/sector/organizational policies/procedures
• Drive continuous process improvement and usage of common processes across programs, as appropriate
• Provide management guidance and earned value reporting to achieve outstanding cost, schedule and technical performance on programs supported
• Responsible for technical guidance and oversight in developing technical and cost proposals
• Manage personnel assignments in a highly dynamic and demanding engineering environment

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Science in a STEM discipline and a minimum of 8 years of progressively increasing responsibility and engineering experience or a Masters of Science in a STEM and a minimum of 6 years of progressively increasing engineering experience
• Experience in one or more specialty engineering areas, including principles, analyses, and procedures
• A proven track record of leading a team of engineers and of establishing strong relationships with other functional organizations and Program Offices
• Experienced in cost estimating us