Sr Staff Engineer Electronics - Sustainment Lead

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

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 Senior Staff Electronics Engineer – Sustainment Lead to join our team of qualified individuals on our Avionics Engineering organization. This role is located onsite in Oklahoma City, OK.

In this role, you will provide technical and execution oversight for avionics sustainment solution activities, collaborate across engineering disciplines and technology areas, and support customer programs for obsolescence, repairability, spares buys, and form/fit/function replacements. You will primarily work with systems, hardware, and electrical engineers to collaborate with technical suppliers to develop avionics sustainment solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee and provide technical direction for sustainment programs, including form/fit/function replacements, spares buys, obsolescence resolution, and repairability
• Provide program technical status, progress, challenges corrective actions, risks, and mitigations to engineering and program leadership
• Serve as primary contact between Chief Engineer and Avionics Department
• Maintain awareness across contracts for adherence to electrical/hardware design and qualification activities, ensuring adherence to NG processes and achieving first time quality in all engineering generated products
• Develop strong technical relationships with multiple suppliers and oversee joint design operations between NG and supplier engineers
• Be present and champion onsite presence at supplier facilities to ensure continued progress, observe critical operations, troubleshoot, and work through technical challenges jointly
• Mentor junior Responsible Engineers while ensuring technical execution stays within cost and schedule constraints
• Support assessment of cost and schedule impacts of technical decisions
• Ensure the program is adhering to processes and best practices of products for both internal and external customers and is compliant with policies, procedures, and quality standards.
• Coordinate with responsible engineers and engineering management to ensure execution of program statement of work and technical program requirements are met
• Drive process development, continuous improvement, and affordability initiatives
• Coordinate with the Technical Review Board regarding upcoming and current change packages
• Support business development and shaping through white paper and engineering estimate development for identified candidate programs
• Research, design, develop, integrate, and test a variety of electronic equipment (such as communications, flight controls, networks, radar, navigation, weapons systems, etc.)
• Support technical interchange meetings/program reviews and assist in resolution of technical program engineering challenges
• Coordinate across programs and functions for common efficiencies and operational gains
• Comprehend and analyze complex problems and develop solutions

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 14 years of related experience; OR a Masters degree in a STEM discipline and 12 years of related experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline with 10 years of related experience

• Must have a strong understanding of electronics/avionics systems

• Must have experience with sustaining engineering, change management, and design process tailoring

• Must have the background in form, fit, function replacement programs

• Ability to obtain an active U.S. Government Secret Clearance level with the ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the Company to meet its business needs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience with qualification and environmental testing required for flight equipment

• Familiarity with Nuclear, EMI, Reliability, and/or Logistics technical disciplines

• Airborne platform requirements, integration, and verification experience

• Strong understanding of nuclear and radiation hardening requirements and testing

• Experience with LabView or other data collection and electronic modeling tools

• Active DoD SECRET clearance, within 5 years of last investigation

• Existing special access program clearance

• Working knowledge of Earned Value, with exposure to Cost Account Management principles

• Experience in an Agile development environments and other communications equipment and systems; circuitry components; analog and digital computers; and control and test equipment

Primary Level Salary Range: $157,800.00 - $236,600.00

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.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.