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Sr Staff Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Arizona-Gilbert
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Top 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. Northrop Grumman Space Systems Sector is seeking a Sr. Staff Systems Engineer to serve as a Sr Staff Producibility Architect in Gilbert, Arizona. The ART operating unit (OU) within the Space Superiority Division seeks a senior engineer with spacecraft systems experience to lead our new deliverable producibility initiative. As the OU’s Productibility Architect, this engineer will work with teammates across the entire development lifecycles of our products to identify opportunities to increase production rates while maintaining a focus on quality. The Producibility Architect will be located in our Gilbert, AZ facility, and will report to the OU Office of the Chief Engineer and OU Profit and Loss leaders. Specific duties include, but are not limited to: • Maintaining product lessons learned databases, establishing actionable plans for implementation of process enhancements to incorporate lessons learned, collaborating across the engineering, manufacturing and AI&T teams to ensure plans are executed and maintaining metrics that capture quantitative measures of enhancement effectiveness • Working with systems engineering and AI&T teams to identify opportunities for testing automation based on cost-benefit analysis and developing detailed roadmaps for implementing the automation • Collaborating with Mission Assurance and Systems Engineering Functional Groups to develop detailed mission risk classification tailoring plans for OU products, based on Government standards, and performing as the liaison to customer engineering leadership to help ensure our approach meets customer mission risk classification needs per our contracts • Working with NG Division, Sector and Corporate groups to explore use of AI/ML across the development lifecycle of our OU products in order to reduce touch labor and shorten production timelines • Coordinating with manufacturing work centers to execute value stream mapping events and internal audits to enhance producibility • Audit of OU program processes with focus on streamlined execution, culminating with functional and mission assurance leadership to codify approved, rapid development and manufacturing processes for OU products • Independent reviewer of OU program system engineering processes, supporting appropriate tailoring of program System Engineering Management Plans (SEMPs) to facilitate rapid design cycles and more efficient verification and validation of products. Basic Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 14+ years of engineering experience, or Master’s degree in a STEM discipline with 12+ years of engineering experience • Full lifecycle Systems Engineering experience as applied to spacecraft development • Experience with spacecraft subsystem design and test • Familiarity with Go