We at Aeronautics Systems are reshaping our Engineering organization to drive stronger execution and faster decision making, while equipping our teams with the processes, tools, and technical training needed to succeed and grow. As a leader in the Product Support Center of Technical Excellence (CoTE) team you will be at the heart of this transformation, driving relentless improvement and ensuring that our technical capabilities stay ahead of emerging challenges and opportunities.

The Aeronautics Engineering organization is seeking a Staff Logistics Planner - Provisioning to be the Provisioning Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the Support Hardware technical discipline within the newly established Product Support CoTE. This key leadership role reports to the Product Support (PS) Logistics Support Manager S02 and is responsible for defining strategy to elevate technical excellence across the Product Support Hardware technical discipline.

The Product Support CoTE Staff Logistics Planner - Provisioning will unite programs, engineers, and technical experts under a shared set of tools, processes, and practices to ensure a consistent, cohesive, and collaborative approach across all AS sector programs. This position partners closely with leads to empower, equip, and train Training professionals to support current program and capture execution, NCTA efforts, and long-term business needs.

The selected candidate must demonstrate deep technical knowledge and expertise in Provisioning to serve at the focal point for Independent Reviews and proposal support.  The Logistics Planner will also support the execution of technical Product Support NCTA projects. The role requires an understanding of the following related Product Support technical disciplines: Prognostic Health Management, Supportable Low Observables (SLO), Technical Data, Support Hardware, Fleet & Field Support, and Product Support Management. They will own processes, tools, and training for the Support Hardware discipline, ensure process excellence and compliance in collaboration with program technical leaders spanning the full product life cycle across the portfolio of NGAS. 

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Support staff development, including skill training and career support; contributing to performance evaluations, overseeing the salary review process, and supervising employee development and mentoring efforts (including engagement strategies for higher performers and corrective actions for lower performers) and issue resolution (as needed)

• Provide leadership and define strategic vision for technical priorities within Support Hardware (Provisioning focus) discipline in the Product Support CoTE, aligned to long-term sector strategy.

• Partner with program discipline leads to understand program critical skill needs and gaps in engineering tools, processes, digital solutions, and technical training

• Own all technical processes and manuals aligned to the discipline area, ensuring technical excellence and technical compliance

• Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of new/modified discipline processes with a goal to strengthen technical excellence and workforce capabilities that result in improved business results.

• Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of discipline tools, ensuring tools are integrated into the discipline processes, support overall digital solutions, are relevant, scalable, and interoperable across programs and associated training material to support effective usage

• Develop discipline training framework and technical content to enable a prepared and high performing work force. Develop metrics and monitor training effectiveness in collaboration with program execution teams.

• Collaborate with Sector Integration and Operations organizations to translate tool, process and training needs into funded initiatives and frameworks and to monitor and measure effectiveness

• Partner with programs for adoption of tools, processes, digital solutions and training

• Oversee and allocate the Support Hardware discipline’s NCTA and indirect budgets to strengthen technical excellence; advance tools, processes, and workforce capabilities; and generate measurable impact on program performance and future competitiveness.

• Represent the Support Hardware discipline in sector-wide and enterprise-wide technical development efforts related to technical development, technical career pathing, technical training, and critical skills investment.

• Participate in sector-level talent reviews and succession planning to maintain discipline-wide visibility into talent strengths, gaps, and growth opportunities.

• Partner with leads to understand program critical skill needs and collaborate with SI&O to translate skill needs into funded technical training programs and onboarding frameworks.

• Build and sustain a strong discipline Community of Practice (CoP), ensuring alignment of sub-CoPs, strategies, and priorities while fostering collaboration across programs and sub-disciplines.

• Contribute technical expertise and process leadership in major proposal reviews, program reviews, independent technical reviews, program stand-up reviews, NCTA and indirect activities, and other sector-wide improvement efforts.

• Act as a trusted advisor to help resolve technical performance shortfalls through root cause analysis, corrective action planning, long-term verification of improvement.

• Capture, share, and embed lessons learned and best practices across programs to continuously raise the bar for technical performance.

• Promote Knowledge Management and Transfer

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with 12 years of military and/or professional experience OR Master's Degree with 10 years of experience OR PhD with 8 year of experience. 

• Must have an active DoD Secret clearance that is in-scope (granted or renewed in the last 6 years) and eligibility for Top Secret/SCI

• Must be able to attain and maintain Special Program Access (PAR)

• The candidate must possess excellent leadership skills and written communication skills.

• Expertise in establishing engineering standards, tools, and processes at scale.

• Possess a working knowledge of all twelve Product Support technical disciplines

• Working knowledge of DoD Logistics / Sustainment / MRO customers and Northrop Grumman military aircraft types and mission and execution

• Participated as a key team member in a major technical milestone review to include: Independent Review Teams (IRTs), Non-Advocate Reviews (NARs), or color team reviews

• Ability to travel as needed (approx. 25%)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current Special Program Access (PAR)

• MS or MBA degree

• Program management experience

• Experience working across the total program lifecycle with emphasis on influencing design to optimize the fielded support solution

• Experience with or exposure to digital design initiatives and solutions to include Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Model Based Sustainment (MBS)

• Continuous improvement mindset with experience leading process optimization.

• Strategic, systems-level thinker who can build alignment across functional and program boundaries

• Experience providing International Product Support solutions

• Experience in or engaging with the DoD Logistics / Sustainment / MRO customer community and/or supporting military aircraft missions

This position supports all the Aeronautics Systems business divisions, at all of the Aeronautics Systems primary geographic sites including: Melbourne, FL; Palmdale, CA; Rancho Bernardo, CA; El Segundo, CA; or Oklahoma City, OK. This position is geographically flexible and can be based out of any one of the 5 locations listed above.