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Engineering and Strategic Planning Director

Engineering and Strategic Planning Director

Clearance JobsLinthicum Heights, MD, US
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Director, Engineering Strategic Planning

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.

The Strategy & Engineering Excellence (S&EE) organization is a trusted partner in Engineering Performance, Technology Leadership and Technical Talent and helps drive innovation and strategy for Engineering & Sciences. The Director, Engineering Strategic Planning, is responsible for leading strategy development in line with the Engineering & Sciences and Mission Systems sector's strategic objectives. This critical role requires extensive collaboration across a diverse group of sectors, division, internal stakeholders and external industry partners and is responsible for identifying and driving innovation to prepare E&S for the future. The preferred candidate will have a solid technical background, strategic mindset and ability to influence multiple levels of leadership and customers to drive cost, performance, schedule and improvement to innovate and execute engineering activities.

Specific Responsibilities Include (But Not Limited To) :

  • Leads collaborative partnership endeavors with stakeholders across the Sector and company to understand key drivers to business success and enhance the probability of meeting E&S longer-term goals. Focus on teamwork and collaboration across the Strategic Growth community.
  • Develops coordinated efforts for new and emerging markets and collaborates with strategic investment to ensure the strategic plan has appropriate funding in place to support E&S and Mission System's goals.
  • Fostering collaboration through groups such as reusable asset authorities, advisory boards, communities of practice, and centers of excellence.
  • Partner with other functional organizations (manufacturing, supply chain, program management, etc.) to enable competitive engineering design and performance.
  • Act as E&S primary interface to internal, cross-functional and external partnerships to include but not limited to :

EELT initiatives (Sector Operating Objectives : Improve Product Delivery & Engineering Process Initiatives)

  • Cross Sector Engineering Initiatives (Technical Bi-Lats; Test Engineering; ECD (Product Lines))
  • Identify Industry Partnerships externally, both aerospace and commercial to solve problems (Design to Cost, SE Copilot...)
  • Drive E&S long term strategy by completing market assessments, technology roadmaps, and identification of opportunities in support of market strategy to support growth and profitability. Maintain 10-year pipeline roadmap, including emerging market opportunities and upcoming tool / system integration
  • Support impact and growth in engineering for informed cost and performance decisions, ensuring seamless, data-driven optimization for scalable delivery across environments.
  • Provide leadership for the team's sector-wide strategic actions to improve engineering competitiveness and sustained growth through strong internal and external partners, aligned roadmaps and cross-functional partnerships, with reusable engineering assets and workflows enhancing efficiency and agility and cost.
  • Partner with CIDO to execute E&S Strategy, integrations and future technologies to build out engineering ecosystem
  • Implementing Mission Product Lifecycle Management (MPLM) infrastructure to enable digital thread

  • Prioritize Digital Transformation and AI Assistance to improve productivity and cycle times and for realized results
  • Identify future skills needed that strengthen E&S ability to be competitive, evolve technical skills and establish role-based development tracks aligned to the mission needs
  • Create & deploy targeted training & development aligned to critical skills and technical leadership needs
  • Ensure workforce is developing to execute engineering strategy and prepared for innovation
  • Location

    Preferred Location Baltimore, MD but will consider candidates located at or near any of the following major NGMS facilities : San Diego, CA, Rolling Meadows, IL, or Woodland Hills, CA

    Travel

    Position requires travel up to 30% of the time to support distributed team

    Reporting

    Solid-line report to the Director of Strategy & Engineering Excellence

    Basic Qualifications :

  • Bachelor's degree with minimum of 10 years of experience, or a Master's degree with minimum 8 years of experience, or a PhD with minimum 6 years of experience in STEM related technical fields
  • A minimum of 5 years demonstrated success leading and managing diverse technical teams that work on large and / or complex systems
  • Prior experience in strategy and market development and driving engineering partnerships required
  • A broad skill set that is balanced between technical, interpersonal, and business capabilities
  • Experience working across multiple lines of business and functional disciplines (e.g. manufacturing, supply chain, business management, strategy & business development)
  • Ability to operate independently based on strategic objectives, work in a team environment, and collaborate across the corporation as required to accomplish team goals
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to innovate and implement change while challenging traditional ways of doing business
  • Technical experience in any combination of Systems, Software, Hardware, or Cyber engineering within the defense or aerospace industries
  • Demonstrated knowledge of engineering processes, engineering metrics, hiring, staffing, tools and training resources
  • Solid understanding of engineering process with execution experience, including working familiarity with ISO 9001, AS9100, and CMMI
  • U.S. Citizenship is required.
  • A current / active DoD Secret Clearance is required
  • Preferred Qualifications :

  • Advanced degree(s) in STEM technical fields
  • Active Top-Secret Clearance or higher and the ability to obtain and maintain a TS / SCI and Special Access Clearance
  • Program management experience, with profit and loss accountability - preferably leading large or complex programs
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with other stakeholders to achieve an optimum balance between project-level execution and enterprise-level efficiencies that improve overall sector performance and competitiveness
  • Demonstrated success in championing change within the organization to achieve competitive advantage for the business
  • Experience leading geographically dispersed functional teams, including team members working remotely
  • Experience engaging with and briefing all levels of management - from CEO, to front-line leadership
  • Proven success in creating and executing affordability initiatives
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