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Principal Production Systems Engineer Level 3 (AHT)
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-California-Northridge
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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. Northrop Grumman is currently seeking a Principal Production Systems Engineer to support the Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) Production program with our talented Advanced Weapons team. The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility in Northridge, CA. Relocation assistance, although not guaranteed, may be available. The ideal candidate will have experience in systems engineering lifecycle of missile / weapon system development program(s) and production experience. They will have technical knowledge in one or more of the subsystems of missile/weapon system, e.g., RF/sensors, guidance, navigation, control, telemetry/communication, and airframe. This candidate will work directly with the program’s Systems Engineering Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead, supporting the production cadence and projects for the Guidance Section. In this role, the selected candidate will (but not be limited to): • Provide systems engineering support as part of a trouble shooting team with systems matter expertise on other areas, e.g., sensor/radar, software, mechanical, electrical, and material properties). • Provide engineering solution to a variety of technical problems and projects. • Developing/updating requirements, test plan, test procedures, etc., to support Production Engineering projects. • Perform data mining for both failure database (TipQA) and Acceptance Test Procedure (ATP) data variability analysis. • Support efforts for Failure Trend Analysis, Root Cause and Corrective Action investigations on RF / electronics sensor systems with exposure to hardware, software, and various applications used on the projects. • Generate and present data analysis results in vu-graphs to support internal and external meetings. • Interface with team members, supervisor, project leads, and external customers in a methodical, detailed and process-oriented fashion to communicate technical briefing and program status. • Support systems engineering metrics and technical performance measurement tracking. • Support the preparation of system engineering materials during System Requirements Review, System Functional Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, System Verification Review, Test Readiness Review, and other program reviews as needed. • Support Program Management activities to ensure cost and schedule objectives are met; support program status efforts including Earned Value Management System (EVMS) tracking and Control Account Management (CAM) activities. • Partner with Global Supply Chain to manage the technical, schedule, cost, and quality of the missile components from our subcontractors. Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor of Science in an Engineering discipline and a minimum of five (5) years of systems engineering or related engineering experie