SDS Systems Engineering Department Manager 3 (9320-2)

Systems Engineering Department Manager 3

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.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is currently seeking a Systems Engineering Department Manager 3 to join our Engineering and Manufacturing team within Strategic Deterrent Systems (SDS) Division in Roy, Utah.

This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You'll Get To Do

This selected candidate will be responsible for a department within the Systems Engineering organization and will report directly to the SDS Systems Engineering Director. You will set operating objectives and provide mentorship to Functional Home Room (FHR) Section Managers (SMs) based on Engineering goals, objectives, and company policy. Provide oversight and assistance to multiple business areas within the division portfolio (Sentinel / GBSD, ICBM Sustainment and Advanced Programs); to provide the people, skills, and processes for successful achievement of program goals.

As the Department Manager you will be responsible for managing career and personnel development, enabling program success through people, processes, tools, and training, and providing program and business support where needed to help ensure overall success. You will also have frequent contact with equivalent level managers and programs to maintain and exceed health and performance across the organization for all programs.

The successful candidate will be the functional / managerial leader of a team of engineers focused on Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (MS&A). This team is focused on design analysis & optimization, technical performance measure (TPM) reporting, and weapon system assessment for systems in all phases of the lifecycle. The ability to understand this scope is essential.

Essential Functions

• Excellent communication, mentoring, interpersonal skills, and the ability to collaborate with senior management, peers, and employees.
• Provides ownership for the people, processes, and tools that support business areas and programs in achieving their missions.
• Accountability for recruiting, staffing and retaining talent to deliver on the objectives.
• Supporting proposal work, independent technical reviews, program standup and audits, and special assignments on an as needed basis.
• Owning and leading improvements across employee engagement, hiring, development, training, attraction, and retention of top talent.
• Mentor, develop, and train your section managers, and overall employee base.
• Reviews and analyzes released engineering change data and coordinates changes with engineering, quality, support, manufacturing, and engineering data control activities.
• This position's standard work schedule is a 9 / 80. The 9 / 80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

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