RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
DescriptionNorthrop Grumman Space Systems, Multi-Domain Operations, and Missile Defense Integration Business Unit (BU) has an exciting career opportunity for a Principal Mechanical Engineer Level 3 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in Huntsville, AL.
Position Overview:
As a Mechanical Engineer you will support the GMD Weapon System (GWS) Hardware Engineering team's design efforts working within an Agile environment. Your core tasks will entail developing detailed mechanical drawings per ASME.Y14 standards and peer reviewing mechanical drawings. Additional responsibilities include maintaining design drawings for multiple Ground Systems (GS) IPT hardware systems and their interfaces with facilities.
Essential Functions:
- Under the direction of your program leadership, responsibilities include performing analyses IAW industry and military standards.
- Develop design drawings, maintaining drawings, evaluating hardware design efforts, scheduling, and planning required tasks.
- Accountability and active participation in team meetings and internal/external demos, and documenting progress on team dashboards is expected.
- Generate engineering documentation including technical drawings, specifications, and test reports.
- Mentoring and cross-training junior engineers in analysis work, reviews, and approving their analysis results to meet customer requirements.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree and 3 years of related experience, or 1 year of related experience with a PhD.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% of the time.
- Applicants must have a current active in-scope U.S. Government issued Secret security clearance at the time of application which is required to start.
- Must be able to support an in-office / closed-area work environment full-time.
- Experience using a 3D CAD Package such as SolidWorks, Creo, or NX
- Experience reviewing 2D mechanical drawings per ASME standards
- Prior experience with engineering PLM systems such as Teamcenter and MRP system such as SAP.
- Understanding and application of industry engineering technical standards; demonstrated structural design experience and impact assessment.
- Experience in evaluating vendor documents to ensure specifications and datasheet meets requirements.
- Familiarity with MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-1366, MIL-STD-1472, ASME Y14.5, ASME Y14.100, MIL-STD-31000
Preferred Qualifications:
- BS in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
- Experience using analytical software tools, to analyze and reduce data to identify key characteristics and trends.
- Familiarity with Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Core Standards: MDA-QS-001-MAP, MDA-QS-003-PMAP, MDA Instruction 5000.20-INS (ETR Process)
- Familiarity with the GMD domain and GMD Launch Support Systems hardware
- DOORS and/or CAMEO exposure
Primary Level Salary Range: $98,900.00 - $148,300.00
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.
