Staff Systems Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 50% 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 Space Systems (NGSS) seeks to fill the position of Staff Engineer Systems leading a diverse team of NGC and sub-contractor personnel with the Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and Sustainment Contract in support of the Missile Defense Agency.

The qualified applicant will perform as the Sites Lead for the GMD team, the position is in Huntsville Alabama. In this role, you are responsible for oversight of all fielded site maintenance and scheduling for the IFICS Data Terminal, Ground Fire Control, and Ground Node Equipment systems, technical guidance for any anomalies, assisting with and coordinating site upgrades. You will support staffing and professional development the team. The qualified applicant will manage internal as well as customer deliverables and will support process development and improvement. Be responsible to the Program Manager supporting Program development activities as well as assisting with understanding field contractual requirements. This position requires collaboration and teambuilding across multiple program IPTs, sub-contractors, and extensive customer interface.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate success in applying leadership characteristics to achieve sustainable top performance, a commitment to ethics and integrity, and the capability to innovate while challenging traditional ways of doing business. In this role, the ideal candidate will possess the ability to balance programmatic needs to deliver results within cost, schedule, and quality parameters while encouraging and rewarding innovative behaviors through all levels of the organization.

Additional Responsibilities include:
 

• Interface with the MDA customer at each site
• Maintain GMD assets in a manner of system availability over 99% to the customer
• Provides performance evaluation input for sub-contractor evaluations, property control, facility, safety, security, and daily production and directs the work of employees assigned from technical, manufacturing, and administrative areas related to the GFC, IDT, and GCN.
• Report all anomalies/ incidents IAW standard maintenance policy and procedures
• Provides remote management oversight to remote site teams
• Support customer site visits and provide briefings on upgrades and obsolescence issues.
• Attend site and program specific meetings, develop slides, charts, and white papers for decision making.
• Support the Ground Weapons Systems (GWS) products hardware / software integration, upgrades and repair requirements
• Ensure Cyber requirements such as software patching and anti-virus updates according to contract and SOW requirements are completed in a timely manner
• Provides personnel and resource management of each of the site teams
• Travel will be required approximately 40% of time.

Basic Qualifications - To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical Engineering or related discipline with 12 years of related experience. Master’s Degree in technical Engineering or related discipline with 10 years of related experience.
• 4 years of leadership as a technical lead or related team leadership role or 2 years experience as a manager in a related discipline
• Active Secret Security Clearance and ability to obtain COMSEC and TS/SCI Clearance required.
• Knowledge of local area networking (LAN) fundamentals with specific experience working with Ethernet routers, switches, and protocols in TCP-IP based communications system.
• Experience with Earned Value Management or leadership with program budget/ cost execution
• Experience with contract proposals, statement of work development and negotiations
• Experience with Risk and Opportunity Management
• Experience with Supply Chain