Manager Systems Engineering 3

About the role

The Discipline Execution lead for Systems Engineering is responsible for ensuring systems engineering organizations across the sector are operating with predictable, repeatable rigor. They perform analysis to understand process differences between sites and implement change to achieve commonality for business outcomes. They define oversight methods and implement methods to drive systems engineering program performance and engineering organizational performance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure systems engineering organizations across the sector are operating with predictable, repeatable rigor.
• Perform analysis to understand process differences between sites and, in collaboration with site leaders, implement change that achieves commonality to achieve business outcomes.
• Define oversight methods (e.g., metrics).
• Implement methods to drive systems engineering program performance and engineering organizational performance across cost, schedule, technical, quality, critical skills and staff, and various other areas.
• Collaborate on engineering long-term vision and strategic alignment.
• Execute strategy and collaborate with organizational peers to stay ahead of industry trends and opportunities for innovation and engineering differentiation.
• Partner with division engineering teams to improve systems engineering competitiveness.
• Leverage sector reusable engineering assets (processes, guidance, tools, templates, and training) to design affordable systems at the speed of customer need.
• Provide support to program and product line teams through coaching and mentoring on the use of these sector assets.
• Partner with other organizations to enhance systems engineering, mission engineering, digital design and product line engineering processes across programs.
• Partner with other organizations to establish metrics and other measures focused on execution.
• Improve engineering through updated, automated, and efficient processes.
• Act as a sector interface to corporate, cross-sector, and/or intra-sector teams.
• Foster collaboration through groups such as reusable asset authorities, advisory boards, communities of practice, and centers of excellence.

Requirements

• 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.
• Good general knowledge of Northrop Grumman portfolio of products, technologies and customers.
• Experience working across multiple lines of business and functional disciplines (e.g. manufacturing, supply chain, business management, strategy & business development).
• Demonstrated experience leading systems development across the product development lifecycle (from design – to - systems deployment), either as a lead systems engineer, chief engineer, product IPT leader or program manager.
• Demonstrated ability to innovate while challenging traditional ways of doing business.
• Demonstrated success in championing change within the organization to achieve competitive advantage for the business.
• Technical experience in any combination of Systems, Software, Hardware, or Cybersecurity engineering within the aerospace & defense industry with direct and tangible Systems Engineering experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of hiring, staffing, engineering metrics and training resources, processes, and tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Solid understanding of engineering process, including a working familiarity with ISO 9001, AS9100, and CMMI.

Qualifications

• Active Top-Secret Clearance or higher and the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI and Special Access Clearance.
• Strong experience in Systems Engineering.
• 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.
• Proven success in creating and executing affordability initiatives.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed functional teams, including team members working remotely.
• Engage with and brief all levels of management - from CEO, to front-line leadership.

Skills

• 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.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Pay

$184,300.00 - $289,600.00

Schedule

Position requires travel up to 25% of the time to support distributed team.