Sentinel – Aerospace Vehicle Systems Engineering & Integration Director 1

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Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems sector is looking for a Director of Aerospace Vehicle Equipment (AVE) Systems Engineering & Integrationfor the Sentinel program. This position will be located in Roy, Utah or Redondo Beach, CA. Northrop Grumman Strategic Systems Division supports the Air Force’s sustainment, modification, development, production, and deployment of strategic systems. Division program portfolio includes the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Ground Sustainment Support Contract (GSSC), Advanced Programs, Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) Programs, and the Sentinel Program.

What You Will Get To Do:

Be the lead for the Sentinel AVE Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) Team, reporting to the SDS Division Sr Director of Systems Engineering and supporting the Sentinel AVE Segment’s executive leadership team. Responsibilities include leadership over the following areas:

• The AVE SE&I Director's priorities will be focused on Sentinel AVE program execution and Systems Engineering products developed and delivered with high standards of quality and according to the contract.

• Leadership of a matrixed technical organization
  • Responsible for cost account management (CAM) and schedule of technical work execution
  • Responsible for technical planning of work and task integration
  • Responsible for work prioritization, communication and management to enable effective and efficient work execution of your team and the interaction across segment and IPT boundaries
  • Leadership of technical expectations, behaviors, and quality of systems engineer’s performance
  • Exemplify leadership in developing effective relationships across the program and divisional functional homeroom to ensure your team has the skills required to perform
• AVE Requirements, Interfaces, and Architecture, and Model Compliance
  • Requirements model development, integration, and management
  • Architecture model development, integration, and management
  • AVE level verification model development and management
  • Interface requirements, design definition development and verification of internal and external AVE interfaces as shared responsibility with SEIT
  • Model Governance Council participation for effective segment integration and product quality
• AVE Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis
  • AVE level characterization for system performance optimization and predictions: fluid dynamics, structures, thermal, dynamics, flight analysis, and targeting
  • Model verification and validation
  • Element level MS&A compilation and integration for subsystem representation and realization
• AVE Mechanical Design Integration
  • Develop and release AVE models and drawings for operational and test configurations
  • Develop Interface Control Models (ICMs) in support of interface definition
• AVE Mass Properties
  • Develop, integrate, and manage operational and test configuration mass properties
• AVE Electrical Design Integration
  • Develop, integrate, and manage system wiring diagrams / layouts / roadmaps
  • Perform and assess signal quality analysis

In addition to the direct responsibilities outlined above, the Director of Aerospace Vehicle Equipment (AVE) Systems Engineering & Integration for the Sentinel program drives their teams by establishing effective partnerships across the program for leveraging specialty engineering expertise for AVE in terms of requirements development/decomposition, analysis, and design implementation. This coverage includes:

• Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability
• System Safety
• Humans Factors Engineering
• Electromagnetic Environmental Effects
• Parts Materials & Processes
• Nuclear Hardness & Survivability
• Cyber Security
• Nuclear Surety
• System Security Engineering
• Life Cycle Cost

Ensure effective partnership with the Integration & Testing (I&T) organizations across the program in support of:

• Integrated Test Plan development and execution
• Development and operational testing preparations and artifact development
• Applicable post-test analysis and reporting

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These positions will have a standard work schedule of 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.
Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) STEM with 10 years of progressive related engineering experience, or Master’s in STEM and 8 years’ of related experience.
• Minimum of 3 years in formal management
• 3 years experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Active DoD Secret clearance, investigation must have been completed within last 5 years

Preferred Qualifications:

• ICBM experience
• Prior experience interfacing with prime contractor site leads and USAF leadership personnel
• Active DoD TS/SCI clearance
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated experience with high value customer presentations, with ability to focus on multiple projects with competing priorities
• Experience leading the performance of tasks on schedule, at cost, and achieving all requirements as either project lead, integrated program team or cost account manager
• Demonstrated experience in making sound decisions in uncertain and difficult situations
• Strong sense of urgency and work ethic in ensuring engineering meets customer and program expectations in a timely and efficient manner
• Demonstrated effectiveness in achieving results through technical quality and understanding and management of internal processes and customer/supplier relationships.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in coordinating joint integration efforts across contractors, Government program office, and Government partner agencies.
• Strong understanding and broad application of engineering systems (engineering standards, configuration management, material review board, process control, tooling, facilities, software, etc.)

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