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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: SAP

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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.

This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

**Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems (NGAS)** sector has an opening for a **Manager 3 Process, Execution, and Metrics (PEM)** on the **Avionics Integration East** team. This role is located in **Melbourne, Florida** . This role reports functionally to the Director of Avionics Integration East and programmatically to the Engineering, Integration & Execution (EI&E) Avionics & Software Engineering Director for the assigned program.

**Job Summary:** In this leadership role, you will be responsible for managing staffing requirements and serve as the primary interface to Avionics Integration to ensure staffing needs are met. You will help establish and monitor engineering metrics to ensure technical rigor and continuous improvement. You will provide mentorship and guidance to the avionics staff and section managers based on program and engineering goals, objectives, and company policy. In collaboration with engineering leads, the Avionics PEM lead also helps ensure that technical, cost, and schedule performance measures are being met. Additionally, you will ensure that avionics design and development approaches comply with sector processes, procedures and best design/architecture approaches and drives reuse of design concepts from across the sector while meeting first time engineering quality and affordability objectives. The successful candidate will demonstrate leadership skills including the ability to work effectively in a team environment and possesses effective communication and presentation skills at all levels.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

+ Act as a primary entity for all avionics disciplines across all IPTs and SMTs

+ Ensure technical quality of products and deliverables

+ Identify and manage resources and staffing to ensure successful execution of program and technical baselines

+ Review and analyze released engineering change requests for approval

+ Present technical and program information to internal and external stakeholders including NGC and customer leadership

+ In cooperation with other engineering disciplines and leadership within and external to the program, ensure that relationships are developed to manage interfaces across project activities and across subcontractors

+ Contribute to the resolution of critical/urgent program/technical issues

+ Support supplier and program deep dives

+ Responsible for avionics discipline technical and cost inputs for all new proposals and Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs)

+ Ensure that earned value management (EVM) techniques and other tools are applied to deliver predictable financial results

+ Collaborate with other engineering and program leads in a team-oriented environment to achieve program goals

+ Establish, maintain, and ensure adherence to functional process and procedures

+ Support strategic planning for future program phases

+ Support generation/definition of TPMs for the program

+ Supports/identifies/Updates R&O definition and mitigation discussion

+ Perform team performance management tasks such goal setting, providing feedback, coaching, mentoring, rewards and recognition.

+ Mentor, develop, and train avionics discipline personnel and collaborate with FHR management on team member professional development including training needs

Basic Qualifications:

+ Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline AND 9 years of related professional/military engineering experience, OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline AND 7 years of related professional/military engineering experience

+ Strong technical understanding of mission systems (such as radars, flight avionics, data displays and controls, mission computing, communications)

+ Experience in requirements definition, derivation, and management

+ Experience in planning staffing requirements

+ Knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques

+ Experience with supplier management

+ Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of all phases of a product development life cycle

+ Excellent communication, mentoring, interpersonal skills, and the ability to collaborate with senior management, peers, and employees

+ Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance (DoD must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Master's degree in a related STEM discipline or MBA

+ Experience in technical problem solving, to include decomposition, root cause analysis, solution development, implementation and monitoring

+ Experience with leading, preparing, reviewing and approving technical and cost inputs for proposals and ECPs

+ Experience collaborating with other technical leads in a team-oriented environment to achieve program goals

+ Experience on development and production programs

+ Experience with Agile development

+ Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of NGAS Engineering processes

+ Ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance

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Salary Range: $161,500.00 - $242,300.00

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.

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.