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Reliability & PHM Manager Systems Engineering 2

Northrop Grumman
CASDRB08, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Apr 2026
💰 $241,700/yr($161,100/yr$241,700/yr)

About the role

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Manager Systems Engineer 2 (Reliability and Fault Diagnostics Manager) to join our diverse team of professionals. This leadership position will be full time in the office and located in San Diego, CA, El Segundo, CA, or Palmdale, CA.

This role will support the Product Support EI&E (Engineering Integration and Execution) and lead the Reliability and Fault Diagnostics team and SOW (Statement of Work) execution. This role will be responsible for coordinating the priorities between multiple OU (Operating Units), ensuring high quality engineering analyses, talent development and management, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and CAM (Control Account Manager) duties for both teams. The Reliability team is responsible for analyzing/determining predicted reliability at various system levels, characterizing field failures, determine trending factors, and work with adjacent engineering functions to propose and prioritize improvement efforts. The Fault Diagnostics team is responsible for analyzing operational logs and maintenance logs to continuously improve the maintainer helping tool to optimize maintenance activity and minimize downtime.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support the Product Support EI&E Director and OU Program Manager objectives

  • Serve as the technical authority on Reliability and Fault Diagnostics

  • Provide technical leadership, direction, and mentoring to engineering team members

  • Coordinate with other Reliability and Fault Diagnostics leaders across the company to ensure sharing and alignment of best practices

  • Maintain cognizance of shifting best practices, procedures, and USG guidance documents to generate opportunities and influence SOWs and ensure Northrop Grumman is a leader in the fields of Reliability and Fault Diagnostics

  • Coordinate with other Engineering, Field Support, and other functions as needed to ensure the teams generate high quality and technically sound analyses that drive leadership/customer action

  • Support SMTs (Supplier Management Teams) as necessary to address relevant technical issues with supplier systems

  • Formally present technical status and solutions to leadership and the customer

  • Act as the CAM for Reliability and Fault Diagnostics work packages as needed

  • Support and shape proposal activities

We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.

Our Leaders at Northrop Grumman live our values daily and encourage our teams to do the same. We do the right thing: upholding the highest ethical standards and facilitating a safe and respectful environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. We do what we promise: holding yourself and others accountable to meet predictable and balanced results. We commit to shared success: operating as OneNG and removing barriers for our teams. Finally, We pioneer; setting a vision that shapes the future and inspires others.

We offer flexible work arrangements, 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.

As a leader, you always act with integrity, and the highest ethical standards characterize everything you do. You enable your team to achieve predictable and balanced results, while satisfying the needs of internal and external partners. You treat all people with respect, and you model personal growth and continuous development.

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