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Sentinel Director of Sentinel Systems Engineering- Systems Engineering Director 2
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Sentinel Director of Sentinel Systems Engineering- Systems Engineering Director 2
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United States of America
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Full time
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Yesterday
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Description
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’s Defense Systems sector is looking for a Director of Sentinel Systems Engineering- Systems Engineering Director 2 in our SDS Division headquarters in Roy, Utah. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.
What You Will Get To Do:
Lead the Sentinel Systems Engineering (SE) Operating Unit, reporting to the Vice President of Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT).
The Sentinel strategic missile program is one of the largest and most complex system integration projects in history, with hundreds of missiles, hundreds of operating facilities, millions of lines of code, thousands of support equipment and training devices, and hundreds of technical training programs to enable industry and USAF to operate and maintain the system without fail in the most challenging conditions. A successful SE Director will provide the experience and vision to drive weapon system level engineering and development of the war fighter mission and will have mature judgment to navigate complex technical and program interfaces across NG system segments, the acquisition customer, and various government enterprise partners.
Responsibilities include the following areas:
Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE),
Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (MS&A),
system architecture development and management,
technical baseline management,
system optimization and trades,
engineering metrics and data analytics,
systems engineering process development, execution, and audit
Parts, Materials, and Process (PM&P),
Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Cost (RAM-C),
Nuclear Hardness and Survivability (NH&S),
system safety for hardware and software,
Environment, Health, Safety, and Sustainability (EHS&S)
electromagnetic effects and environments and TEMPEST
Human Systems Integration (HSI) and Human Factors Engineering (HFE)
The System Engineering Director is responsible and accountable for profit and loss (P&L) performance against the program plan, technical performance and credibility of the team, technical competencies developed within the team, and the technical quality of the weapon system products.
As a senior leader, you act with integrity, and the highest ethical standards in everything you do. You enable your team to achieve predictable and balanced results, while satisfying the needs of internal and external partners. You treat all people with respect, and you model personal growth and continuous development. You know how to build an inclusive environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. You develop trusted and valued customer relationships and communicate effectively, so that personnel throughout the organization are engaged, motivated, and connected to their work. You deliver excellence, strive for continuous improvement, and respond vigorously to change.
Northrop Grumman’s Defense Systems sector is looking for a Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test Business Unit Deputy Programs Director 2in our SDS Division headquarters in Roy, Utah. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.
What You Will Get To Do:
Lead technical and business integration of the Sentinel Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Business Unit, reporting to the Vice President for Sentinel SEIT.
The Sentinel strategic missile program is one of the largest and most complex system engineering and integration projects in history - with hundreds of missiles, hundreds of operating facilities, and millions of lines of code that must operate without fail in the most challenging conditions. You will provide the experience and vision to partner with the SEIT Vice President in leading a 1,000+ member national SEIT team to deliver an extremely broad scope of requirements, verification, certification, configuration control, enterprise integration, and operational sustainment deliverables. Your proactive collaboration across NG flight and ground segments, the USAF acquisition customer, and other government mission partners will be critical to successful delivery of this national-priority weapon system. Responsibilities focus in the following areas:
· Programmatic integration
o Lead BU business and operations teams to drive accurate planning and execution to deliver predictable Profit & Loss across multiple SEIT Operating Units.
o Lead workforce and facility / resource actions to enable team performance in collaboration with division Engineering and Operations homerooms,
o Ensure contractual closure and communication of program-level requirement updates and directed scope often negotiated by SEIT on behalf of the program.
o Partner with senior Air Force officers to jointly manage and track priorities.
· Technical orchestration
o Collaborate with the Chief Engineer’s office to align SEIT plans with program technical priorities and issues.
o Lead technical action plans, milestone roadmaps, and progress metrics to drive execution and effective executive communication of system-level work threads.
o Negotiate handoffs with other NG teams and USAF for joint work products and lead across organizations to assure timely and high-quality integrated deliverables.
o Drive proactive opportunity and risk management, including negotiation of “enterprise risk” recognition by the customer for issues outside NG’s span of control.
o Lead efficiency initiatives and corrective action plans.
· Strategic leadership
o Collaborate with the SEIT VP and leadership team to set long-range business unit strategy, growth targets, and resource plans across all program phases
o Prepare and present executive briefings to explain system-level plans and progress.
o Represent the SEIT VP as an executive delegate at high-visibility NG and government events.
Position Benefits:
As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including
Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
Educational Assistance
Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
Paid Time Off
Health & Wellness Resources
Employee Discounts
This positions 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. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) and a minimum 10 years of engineering experience or MS degree and 8 years of related engineering experience.
- Minimum of 5 years in leadership.
- Experience with Profit & Loss accountability and earned value management
- Experience in Agile development, processes, and tools
- Active DoD Secret clearance, investigation must have been completed within last 5 years
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in Systems Engineering of ICBM’s, missile programs, and/or BMC2 systems.
- Top Secret clearance
- People skills include effective listening, persuasion, mentoring, coaching, & an ability to attract and sponsor talent.
- Experience interacting and communicating at the senior manager level with government counterparts and distinguished visitors.
- Working knowledge of systems engineering, particularly Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) and/or Model Based Test and Evaluation (MBTE)
- Earned value management system, supplier management, and risk/issue/opportunity management system experience.
- A record of leading large teams to successfully deliver first time quality on schedule affordably.
