- Category: Engineering
- Location: Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Clearance Type: Top Secret
- Telecommute: No - Teleworking not available for this position
- Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
- Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
- Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
- Positions Available: 1
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.
The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills and 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!
Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) is looking for you to join our team as a Sr Principal Systems Engineer – Deputy IPT Lead based out of Aurora, CO.
What You’ll Get to Do:
This position will serve as Deputy Common IPT Lead and will be supporting staffing, cost account management, planning across multiple programs and missions within the programs, reporting IPT status, and coordinating cross IPTs for travel and resource agreements. Additional responsibilities may include performing technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal. Ensuring the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Performing functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. Maintaining existing operations procedures up-to-date to include lessons learned from real-time performance. Developing new procedures as required. Interfacing with program and customer personnel.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; Master's with 6 years of relevant experience; or 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD.
- Position requires an active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application.
- Must be willing to submit to a polygraph.
- Experienced in leading large, geographically dispersed teams.
- Experienced in building teams.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with Agile methodology.
- Experience with effectively managing, communicating, and presenting staffing, cost account management, planning, travel, and resource reporting to leadership and customers.
- General understanding of Software Engineering Plans and Processes.
- General understanding of Systems Engineering Integration & Test Plans and Processes.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience as a Control Account Manager.
- General understanding of Agile Earned Value Management planning, tools, and execution.
- Experience managing dependencies across Integrated Product Teams.
The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions.
Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
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