Electronics Engineer Manager 3 - Communications and Payloads

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.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add an Electronics Engineer Manager 3 - Communications and Payloads Manager to join our team in Rancho Bernardo, CA or Palmdale, CA. This position will be in our Avionics Integration Organization.

This Engineering Manager and Cost Account Manager (CAM) will manage a large diverse multi-disciplinary team consisting of approximately 80 engineers and field service representatives and help coordinate between other teams internal and external, internal leadership, and the customer to ensure proactive management, execution, risk reduction, and opportunity capture in support operations as directed by the customer and internal leadership. This candidate will also coordinate and lead preparation of presentation materials to support customer status review, Program Integration Reviews, and proposal efforts.

Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Drive the development of technical solutions, lead the effort with Responsible Engineers (REs) to prepare the change request packages and lead the effort from approval to completion.

- Ensure all change requests meet technical requirements to progress through the change management lifecycle to include presentations at Enterprise Technical Change Boards.

- Lead a multi-disciplinary team to:

• Develop new projects for approval, including development of the statement of work (SOW) and schedule.

• Coordinate gathering of impacts and estimates for the proposal.

• Develop and adhere to the budget baseline using the Earn Value Management (EVM) process, including development of discrete work packages, providing weekly status of IMS tasks, and providing input to monthly Estimate at Complete (EAC) updates.

• Manage execution of projects and technical tasks to completion and provide regular status updates to leadership.

- Assess, track, and mitigate technical, cost and schedule risk.

- Representing the Systems organization in Integrated Master Schedule working group meetings and meeting or beating Avionics Systems milestones

- Identifying and managing Comms and Payloads risks, issues, and opportunities, including representing Avionics Systems in Risk Board meetings

- Communicate prioritization from program leadership to technical execution teams

- Collaborate with GSC and your SMTs to ensure supplier deliveries align with the needs of the program in cost, schedule and technical.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility.  There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position.  An occasional travel requirement up to 10% may be needed.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 9 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 7 years of related engineering experience

• 5 or more years of leadership experience and managing engineers

• Familiarization with the Technical Change Management Process

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary technical teams.

• Hands on experience in electronics engineering, systems engineering and/or aerospace engineering

• Experience and knowledge of Project/Program Management processes to include Control Account Management (CAM) Earned Value Management (EVM) , Risks – Issues - Opportunities (RIO)  processes, project planning and scheduling, staffing, coordination and oversight of technical work effort

• Experience in communication technologies to include but not limited to RF and digital system design & analysis, Wideband and Narrowband integration and testing, and Antenna theory and operation or experience in optical sensors, RADAR or electronic warfare technologies

• Microsoft Office skills (Power Point, Word, Excel)

• Must have an Active in-Scope, DoD Top Secret clearance

• Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Program Access (SAP/PAR). This SAP/PAR must be obtained prior to commencement of employment and must be obtained within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs. (Of note: SAP/PAR will be upgraded once selected candidate is in role. Therefore, candidate must also be able to obtain and maintain upgraded SAP/PAR.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current Special Program Access

• Experience as a cost account manager or similar

• Experience working technical manuals, system maintenance or creating engineering dispositions

• Cross-discipline & Cross-lifecycle engineering experience

• Experience with software and hardware engineering

• Experience with supplier management

• Previous experience coordinating aspects of program execution including planning, baselining, and implementation across multiple teams.

• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.

Salary Range: $187,000.00 - $280,600.00

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.