The Staff Mechanical Lead Engineer reports to the Director of Infrastructure and is responsible for ensuring robust, timely, and well-coordinated technical products within the Infrastructure scope of work; identifying, actioning, and measuring technical process improvements and optimization; and working with other technical leaders across the Sentinel program to represent Infrastructure work products and dependencies.

Roles and Responsibilities

Technical Excellence:

• Review INF work products via peer reviews, Design Reviews, and various board meetings to ensure adherence to the Sentinel technical baseline and associated requirements and processes.
• Balancing stringent quality standards for technical artifacts (e.g. Technical Data Packages, Product Data Packages) with the rapid pace of procurement, fabrication, and construction of test assets and early prototypes.
• Presenting sufficient information to Program Management to make informed decisions between conflicting technical approaches based upon program and IPT-level cost, schedule, and technical impacts and risk.
• In coordination with the Office of the Chief Engineer, championing process improvements that allow the systems engineering, design engineering, and analysis teams to define and board high quality products in a cost and time efficient manner.

Cross-Element Coordination:

• Working closely with technical leadership and contributors across the program to identify impacts on INF work scope resulting from external changes or impacts on external stakeholders resulting from INF artifacts.
• Developing joint solutions to cross-segment or cross-element technical challenges, balancing impacts, risks, and opportunities to identify the best overall options for the Sentinel program.

Communication:

• Decomposing direction from INF leadership and Office of the Chief Engineer to technical teams performing work and ensuring understanding and adherence to that direction.
• Negotiating competing priorities and interests across a wide range of internal and external stakeholder communities to pursue the best course of action for the Sentinel program.
• Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with a wide range of distinct internal organizations, customer communities, subcontractors, and industry partners.
• Providing regular briefings, reports, and other communications to executive leadership.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with 12 years of related experience; a Master's degree with 10 years; or a PhD with 8 years
• Must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance at time of application, current and within scope (awarded or renewed in the last 6 years), with the ability to obtain a U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need
• Requires a minimum 6 years of experience leading Mechanical design efforts on Aerospace and Defense programs and/or major infrastructure/building projects
• Requires experience with the design and development of large mechanical or structural equipment
• Requires a minimum 3 years of experience with component or subsystem-level testing or analysis
• Requires the ability and willingness to travel 25% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in STEM, preferably an Engineering degree
• An active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance with an active Special Access Program (SAP)
• ICBM experience
• Experience with CAD modeling software, especially NX, and analytical modeling software, especially Abaqus and Ansys
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) experience
• Strong understanding and broad application of engineering systems (engineering standards, configuration management, material review board, process control, tooling, facilities, software, etc.)
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated experience with high value customer presentations, with ability to focus on multiple projects with competing priorities
• Demonstrated experience in making sound decisions in uncertain and difficult situations

Position Benefits

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Employee Discounts

This position’s standard work schedule is 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

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