Senior Principal SEIT Engineer (IPT Lead) (Oxnard)

Senior Principal SEIT Engineer (IPT Lead)

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.

An organization within Northrop Grumman's Payload and Ground Systems (PGS) division, Mission Enabling Products is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, and antenna reflectors. Our products are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years. Our facility in Oxnard, CA is seeking a Senior Principal SEIT Engineer (IPT Lead) to support one of our major programs within the Deployables Operating Unit.

Reporting directly to the Director of Engineering, the Senior Principal SEIT Engineer (IPT Lead) will be part of the Mission Enabling Products Business Unit Systems Engineering Organization and serve on the Speargun Program team. They are responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team in the areas of Requirements, Verification & Validation, Radiation, Reliability, Configuration Management, Test Engineering, Test Set Design, Test Software, and Parts, Materials & Process (PM&P) engineering.

Work is performed at all levels of total system product including requirements definition, preliminary to final design, fabrication, test, and installation. The successful candidate will ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

The Senior Principal SEIT Engineer (IPT Lead) will also perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, change management, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware specifications along with reviewing and overseeing design tailoring to meet specification requirements. The successful candidate will be able to communicate the required inputs and resulting outputs along with the associated context to team members, individual contributors, program management senior leadership and the customer.

Roles & Responsibilities :

• Provide technical leadership to a cross-functional Integrated Product Team (IPT) to meet program cost, schedule, and technical execution for the Top Assembly build and delivery
• Coordinate with Business Management for review of Earned Value metrics and Control Account Management
• Coordinates work statements and specifications, operating budgets and financial terms / conditions of contract to meet contractual deliverables
• Lead the development and execution of project budgets and schedules, including Earned Value Management System (EVMS), critical path management, and workload forecasts
• Provide regular schedule execution inputs to Scheduling
• Lead multidisciplinary teams in Systems Engineering, Design and Analysis during design, analysis, manufacturing, and delivery phases of products in development and production phases
• Coordinate with the Program Chief Engineer to resolve technical issues, and maintain the technical baseline through ERB / CCB
• Interface with cross-functional teams to include Quality, Assembly and Test and monitor execution
• Interpret statements of work assigned by program leadership
• Interface with functional departments to secure team staffing
• Assist the Program Office in briefing internal and customer leadership on progress of work assigned

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Salary Range : $137,400.00 - $206,000.00 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.