Manager Systems Engineering 1

Description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, 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!

We are looking for you to join our team as a dual-role technical manager position based out of Buffalo, NY. At Northrop Grumman, you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation and where we focus on the development and production of state-of-the-art Simulation Systems solutions.

What You'll Get to Do:

For this dual-role technical manager position your management duties will require tasking and coordination of approximately 6-10 engineers, and process and resource coordination with functional homeroom management. The position will also have 75% of his/her time allocated to technical responsibilities. This candidate will demonstrate a broad skill set that is balanced between interpersonal, leadership, and technical capabilities. He/she must be a self-starter, able to efficiently operate in a team environment, and collaborate across the sector business areas as required to accomplish the team goals. The candidate will work closely with other managers, and engineering disciplines. The manager will be required to communicate with internal customers as well as external customers and suppliers. He/she must be able to work as part of a multifunctional team working within schedule and budget constraints.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Management and execution of employee performance review processes
• Create and support department policies, procedures, and budgets
• Provide flow-down and direction from upper management and the organization
• Provide employee mentoring, career development, and training opportunities
• Creating an inclusive and engaging environment that promotes employee retention
• Support to hiring, staffing and workload forecasting including identification and training of skills required to execute on programs

• Support/lead project execution over the whole product lifecycle, with foremost emphasis on meeting or exceeding customer and stakeholder requirements
• Revises and manages both original and revised specification/interface definition document and expedites documents through signature approval process.
• Identify risks, suggest mitigations, track defects, develop resolutions, and track and report status
• Supports trade studies, system performance assessments, system design assessments, timelines and concept of operations development.
• Supports system design, data analyses, interface verification, testing, failure/anomaly resolution and mission operations.
• Supports the testing and/or evaluation/validation of one or more components of a system or subsystem analytical model or actual system implementation.
• Provide technical contributions on assigned programs, including subject matter expert reviews for major milestone events (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.).
• Facilitate and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Oversight of cost, schedule, and technical quality for SEIT execution on supported programs
• Technical lead for proposal (Formal and ROM) efforts including Basis of Estimate generation

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) and a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience
• Understanding with Electronic Warfare simulation of threat radar systems.
• Knowledge of radar signal characteristics.
• Experience performing functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Experience analyzing complex problems and developing solutions.
• Experience with DOORS requirements management tool.

• Experience with design reviews.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills for technical audiences.
• Ability and willingness to travel to domestic and foreign locations up to 15% based upon need.
• U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) Secret security clearance and ability to obtain special access programs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in a relevant technical or management specialty

• Proven demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Demonstrated capability to make difficult decisions that impact team direction and team performance outcomes
• Active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret security clearance with the eligibility to obtain a Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and special access programs.
• Electronic Warfare (EW), or EW Threat experience
• Experience with Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) concepts and tools (Cameo and Rhapsody).
• Experience in an integration and test environment for complex electronic systems evaluation
• Experience in development and earned value management of cost accounts and schedules as related to Systems Engineering tasks
• Expertise using various types of RF test equipment, such as spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes and time-domain analyzers to measure and verify interpulse and intrapulse modulations, radar scan patterns.