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Civil/Structural Design Engineer / Principal Design Engineer- 17704
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Utah-Roy
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time 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. The selected candidate will become a Civil Design Engineer. This role supports the design, modeling, and integration efforts for Civil/Structural elements for Sentinel Launch Facilities, Launch Centers, or Test Facilities. This position will be located in Roy, UT. Specific duties to include, but are not limited to the following: • Responsible for overseeing and coordinating civil/structural systems design for the Sentinel infrastructure and facilities. • Subject matter expert supporting the design of high complexity civil/structural systems, including structural steel design drawings, concrete forming and reinforcing design drawings. • Review structural design/selection/engineering for modularized fabrication. • Interpret and verify industry standards, guidelines, and codes for project deliverables. • Participate in project design/model reviews. • Review subcontractors design product quality/accuracy by reviewing civil/structural designs and validating that current standards are applied and integrated into the design solution. • Support the delivery of Civil/Structural facility design Technical Data Packages, Issue-for-Construction (IFC) packages, as-built TDPs, PDPs, interface models, and additional design artifacts. • Supporting structured trade studies to evaluate alternative design solutions to resolve technical issues • Developing and presenting design change requests, coordinating with impacted internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring configuration control of the technical baseline. • Identifying risks and opportunities associated with or driven by design factors and executing handling/mitigation/capture actions to reduce risk or realize opportunities. • Developing and maturing Civil/Structural facility designs that meet Weapon System requirements, UFC, MIL-STD, and other applicable codes and regulations. Basic Qualifications: • Design Engineer: Bachelor's degree with 2 years’ experience; 0 years’ experience with a Master’s degree • Principal Design Engineer: Bachelor's degree with 5 years’ experience; 3 years’ experience with a Master’s degree; or 1 year’ experience with a PhD. • Active DoD Secret security clearance at the time of application with the most recent investigation completed in the last 5 years. • Must be able to obtain and maintain Special Access Programs (SAP) clearance as a condition of continued employment. • Experience with site development, grading, utilities, stormwater management, operations and property description • Extensive knowledge of cost estimation of site civil improvements • Expertise in project design/model reviews. • Experience reviewing design products, data packages, issue-for-construction packages, and/or as-built data and models for quality/accuracy by reviewing civil designs and validating that current standards are appl