Director 2 - Systems Engineering Discipline Lead
Northrop Grumman · Redondo Beach, CA · 4 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$266k–$400k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- Description: includes overview of company, role location, reporting, responsibilities.
- Job Responsibilities list (bulleted). So we need a Responsibilities section with
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- Basic Qualifications list: bullet points.
- Preferred Qualifications list.
- Skills? Not explicitly separate; maybe we can include under Qualifications or Skills. The instruction: Use headings for sections like Skills if there is content. The posting mentions "Exceptional oral and written communication skills..." etc under Preferred Qualifications. Could treat as Skills section. But we need to decide.
- Benefits: posting mentions "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." Also mentions Long Term Incentives for VP/Director positions. Also mentions overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonus, annual bonuses. So we have benefits content.
- Pay: posting includes "Primary Level Salary Range: $266,300.00 - $399,500.00". Also mentions salary range guideline, factors, overtime etc. So we have Pay.
- Schedule: Not mentioned explicitly. There's travel 25% of time, but schedule not given. So we should not create Schedule section.
- About the role: Could be a section summarizing role description. The description includes overview of role location, reporting, responsibilities. We can put that under About the role.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc.
We must remove boilerplate: EEO, application period, etc. Also remove "Click the link below" etc. Also remove "U.S. Citizenship is required..." maybe that's part of Requirements? It is a requirement for clearance positions. Could include under Requirements or Qualifications. But it's a requirement: U.S. Citizenship required for all positions with a government clearance. Since clearance is required, we could include that as a requirement. However we must not invent details; we can include it as a bullet under Requirements or Qualifications. The posting says: "U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions." Since this role requires Top Secret SCI clearance, we can include that as a requirement.
Also "Active Top Secret and SCI clearance at time of application, with a recent Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI)." That's under Basic Qualifications.
Thus we need to capture all substantive info.
Let's outline sections:
About the role
Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Director 2 – Systems Engineering Discipline Lead located in Redondo Beach, CA, reporting to the Vice President of Western Region Engineering. The role leads a growing Systems Engineering organization across Western Region locations (Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach, CA; Azusa, CA; Commerce, CA; Goleta, CA; Oxnard, CA; San Diego, CA; Gilbert, AZ). Responsibilities include strategic leadership, people management, day-to-day operational oversight, aligning technical capabilities with program requirements, long-range sector priorities, and corporate objectives.
But we must not duplicate responsibilities list; we can keep a brief overview then list responsibilities in Responsibilities section. Better: About the role could be a short paragraph summarizing role and location. Then Responsibilities section with- each bullet from "Job Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:" list.
Let's extract those bullets:
- Provide technical and people leadership, strategic direction, and oversight of all major disciplines/functions within the Systems Engineering organization.
- Drive long‑range strategic planning, ensuring organizational alignment with sector goals, program needs, future technology requirements, and the continued critical skill/infrastructure build‑up for the Western Systems Engineering organization.
- Lead efforts to optimize people, processes, and tools to support successful captures and program execution activities across the full lifecycle, including development, qualification, manufacturing, integration, test, and flight operations.
- Provide ownership for the people, processes, and tools that support SE recruiting, employee development and engagement, skills development, NCTA efforts, staffing, and process and product development.
- Ensure application of sound System Engineering processes during capture, conceptual, design, qualification, manufacturing, integration and test of systems in the Space Systems portfolio.
- Oversee program/project reviews, including leading Independent Review Teams for key customer milestones such as SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, and drive SE process improvement plans, proposal review, and commitment authority for SE scope of work.
- Quickly engage to identify and diagnose program challenges across their full lifecycle, including development, hardware/software integration, production, and test phases, enabling decisive resolution.
- Oversee special assignments such as proposal development, independent technical reviews, program standup reviews, anomaly resolution, and technical audits.
- Drive innovation and support advanced research and technology development in systems engineering disciplines to align with long‑range sector priorities (LRSP) and Space Systems strategic roadmaps.
- Champion risk, issue, and opportunity management strategies to ensure operational success and proactively mitigate technical and execution risks.
- Manage and optimize budgets, including direct, indirect, NCTA, and capital resources, to achieve organizational objectives efficiently and support sector and corporate priorities.
- Foster a culture of high performance, inclusion, continuous improvement, and disciplined execution, with an emphasis on communication, collaboration, and employee engagement.
That's a lot; we keep them.
Now Requirements/Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) discipline.
- Twelve (12) years of engineering, project management, and/or functional management experience.
- Demonstrated experience in Systems Engineering, including system architecture, SEIT leadership, and development programs through system integration and test, verification and validation.
- Experience in leading large SEIT teams.
- Proven ability to lead and develop high‑performing teams and collaborate across organizations to achieve shared objectives.
- Active Top Secret and SCI clearance at time of application, with a recent Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI).
- Ability to travel 25% (maybe under Requirements? It's mentioned under CLEARANCE REQUIRED etc. Actually travel is separate: "TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time". That's a requirement; we could include under Requirements or maybe under Schedule? But schedule not present; travel is not schedule. Could include under Requirements as bullet.
Also U.S. Citizenship required.
Now Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in Engineering or another STEM field.
- Fifteen (15) years of experience in engineering, project management, and/or functional management roles.
- Significant experience leading a large functional or program organization (on the order of 1,000+ personnel) and successfully implementing strategic goals.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills with experience preparing and delivering executive‑level presentations and briefings.
- As a leader with integrity, you ensure ethical conduct, balanced results, and partner satisfaction. You respect and nurture growth, fostering a culture of excellence.
- Skilled in building collaborative teams and customer trust, you communicate well, foster strong teams, and embrace change.
These are more like skills/qualities. Could go under Skills section.
But we also have Skills heading; we could put those bullet points under Skills.
Benefits:
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Long Term Incentives (for VP/Director positions)
- Overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonus (eligibility)
- Annual bonuses (reward individual contributions and share in company results)
Pay:
- Primary Level Salary Range: $266,300.00 - $399,500.00
- Note: salary range is a guideline; factors considered; overtime etc.
We should not include fluff like "Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay." That's part of Pay/Benefits.
We need to avoid boilerplate: EEO, application period, etc.
Now construct HTML.
We'll have sections:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
Requirements
- ...
Qualifications
Maybe we can put Preferred Qualifications here? Or we could have Qualifications for basic and Preferred for extra? But we already have Requirements for basic qualifications. Qualifications could be for preferred qualifications. However the instruction says use headings for sections like Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can have Qualifications for preferred qualifications, Skills for skills/competencies. Thus:
Qualifications
- ... preferred qualifications bullets ...
Skills
- ... maybe the bullet points about integrity, communication, building teams, etc. But some of those overlap with preferred qualifications. Actually the preferred qualifications list includes those soft skills. We could merge them; but we need to avoid duplication. Perhaps we treat Qualifications as preferred qualifications (advanced degree, years experience, leading large org). Skills as the soft skills (communication, integrity, team building). Let's extract.
From Preferred Qualifications paragraph:
"Advanced degree in Engineering or another STEM field.
Fifteen (15) years of experience in engineering, project management, and/or functional management roles.
Significant experience leading a large functional or program organization (on the order of 1,000+ personnel) and successfully implementing strategic goals.
Exceptional oral and written communication skills with experience preparing and delivering executive‑level presentations and briefings.
As a leader with integrity, you ensure ethical conduct, balanced results, and partner satisfaction. You respect and nurture growth, fostering a culture of excellence.
Skilled in building collaborative teams and customer trust, you communicate well, foster strong teams, and embrace change."
We could split: Qualifications: advanced degree, 15 years experience, leading large org (1000+). Skills: communication skills, integrity/ethical conduct, building collaborative teams.
Thus:
- Advanced degree in Engineering or another STEM field.
- Fifteen (15) years of experience in engineering, project management, and/or functional management roles.
- Significant experience leading a large functional or program organization (on the order of 1,000+ personnel) and successfully implementing strategic goals.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills with experience preparing and delivering executive‑level presentations and briefings.
- As a leader with integrity, you ensure ethical conduct, balanced results, and partner satisfaction; you respect and nurture growth, fostering a culture of excellence.
- Skilled in building collaborative teams and customer trust, you communicate well, foster strong teams, and embrace change.
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Long Term Incentives (eligible for Vice President or Director positions)
- Overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus eligibility
- Annual bonuses to reward individual contributions and share in company results
Qualifications
Skills
Benefits
Pay
Primary Level Salary Range: $266,300.00 - $399,500.00 (guideline; base salary determined by scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills, and market conditions; eligibility for overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonus, and annual bonuses).
We should not include
- each bullet from "Job Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:" list.
Let's extract those bullets:
- Provide technical and people leadership, strategic direction, and oversight of all major disciplines/functions within the Systems Engineering organization.
- Drive long‑range strategic planning, ensuring organizational alignment with sector goals, program needs, future technology requirements, and the continued critical skill/infrastructure build‑up for the Western Systems Engineering organization.
- Lead efforts to optimize people, processes, and tools to support successful captures and program execution activities across the full lifecycle, including development, qualification, manufacturing, integration, test, and flight operations.
- Provide ownership for the people, processes, and tools that support SE recruiting, employee development and engagement, skills development, NCTA efforts, staffing, and process and product development.
- Ensure application of sound System Engineering processes during capture, conceptual, design, qualification, manufacturing, integration and test of systems in the Space Systems portfolio.
- Oversee program/project reviews, including leading Independent Review Teams for key customer milestones such as SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, and drive SE process improvement plans, proposal review, and commitment authority for SE scope of work.
- Quickly engage to identify and diagnose program challenges across their full lifecycle, including development, hardware/software integration, production, and test phases, enabling decisive resolution.
- Oversee special assignments such as proposal development, independent technical reviews, program standup reviews, anomaly resolution, and technical audits.
- Drive innovation and support advanced research and technology development in systems engineering disciplines to align with long‑range sector priorities (LRSP) and Space Systems strategic roadmaps.
- Champion risk, issue, and opportunity management strategies to ensure operational success and proactively mitigate technical and execution risks.
- Manage and optimize budgets, including direct, indirect, NCTA, and capital resources, to achieve organizational objectives efficiently and support sector and corporate priorities.
- Foster a culture of high performance, inclusion, continuous improvement, and disciplined execution, with an emphasis on communication, collaboration, and employee engagement.
That's a lot; we keep them.
Now Requirements/Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) discipline.
- Twelve (12) years of engineering, project management, and/or functional management experience.
- Demonstrated experience in Systems Engineering, including system architecture, SEIT leadership, and development programs through system integration and test, verification and validation.
- Experience in leading large SEIT teams.
- Proven ability to lead and develop high‑performing teams and collaborate across organizations to achieve shared objectives.
- Active Top Secret and SCI clearance at time of application, with a recent Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI).
- Ability to travel 25% (maybe under Requirements? It's mentioned under CLEARANCE REQUIRED etc. Actually travel is separate: "TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time". That's a requirement; we could include under Requirements or maybe under Schedule? But schedule not present; travel is not schedule. Could include under Requirements as bullet.
Also U.S. Citizenship required.
Now Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in Engineering or another STEM field.
- Fifteen (15) years of experience in engineering, project management, and/or functional management roles.
- Significant experience leading a large functional or program organization (on the order of 1,000+ personnel) and successfully implementing strategic goals.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills with experience preparing and delivering executive‑level presentations and briefings.
- As a leader with integrity, you ensure ethical conduct, balanced results, and partner satisfaction. You respect and nurture growth, fostering a culture of excellence.
- Skilled in building collaborative teams and customer trust, you communicate well, foster strong teams, and embrace change.
These are more like skills/qualities. Could go under Skills section.
But we also have Skills heading; we could put those bullet points under Skills.
Benefits:
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Long Term Incentives (for VP/Director positions)
- Overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonus (eligibility)
- Annual bonuses (reward individual contributions and share in company results)
Pay:
- Primary Level Salary Range: $266,300.00 - $399,500.00
- Note: salary range is a guideline; factors considered; overtime etc.
We should not include fluff like "Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay." That's part of Pay/Benefits.
We need to avoid boilerplate: EEO, application period, etc.
Now construct HTML.
We'll have sections: