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Mission Operations Development Lead - Level 4 - Gilbert

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Arizona-Gilbert

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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI 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. The Mission Operations Development group is looking for a Lead Mission Operations Engineer to join a growing team. This position is for a full time technical role located on our Gilbert, AZ campus. The successful candidate will be expected to: • Provide mission operations support to NGSS Satellite programs. • Lead on orbit script and procedure development effort based off of operational procedures • Testing on orbit operational products using simulators and resolve discrepancies. • Lead development and test command procedures, telemetry pages, and other products derived from vendor provided documentation. • Make modifications to existing operations procedures to incorporate lessons learned from in-flight performance. Develop new procedures as required. • Support system development activities such as requirements management, architecture development, integration and test and formal program milestones. • Work with systems engineers to develop operational documentation for use during on-orbit checkout and commissioning of satellites. • Participate in mission readiness activities including mission rehearsals, mission timeline development, and post launch test development. • Participate in on orbit anomaly resolution efforts. • Provide status reporting through both the functional and program reporting branches. • Provide additional support to multiple programs in the same product line. • Maintain standards associated with the established Integrated/Developmental Operations functional group processes. • Support internal and external customer meetings through proficient verbal and documented (MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel) communications. • May require shift work and travel ~ 20% of the time for simulation/rehearsal and launch support. • Candidate will require a polygraph interview to participate in rehearsals and launch activities. Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or related discipline and 8 years’ experience; 6 years with Masters; 0 years with PhD Prior experience conducting on-orbit mission operations or resolving satellite/ground system anomalies. • Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application. • Experience with at least one S/C Subsystem (ADCS/GNC, command and data handling, communications, power, Thermal, flight software, orbital planning and dynamics, etc.) • System engineering experience or significant classwork in system engineering or system design • Experience writing technical documents for internal or external customers • Outstanding verbal and written communications skills, including ability to make persuasive presentations to external customers at milestone reviews. • Experience with or writing of PERL script. Preferred Qualifications: • Ability to work within a group of diver

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