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On-Orbit Execution & Planning Engineer
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Colorado-Colorado Springs
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI TRAVEL: No 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 Space Sector is seeking a On-Orbit Execution & Planning Engineer Level 3 or Level 4 to join our team in Colorado Springs, CO. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. This candidate will be a part of the Execution Planning Team working collaboratively with government customers and operators to demonstrate and develop plans to increase the effectiveness of the capabilities. This candidate will have basic knowledge of dynamic satellite operations and Rendezvous Proximity and Operations (RPO) with preferred experience executing the missions on orbit. This candidate will closely work with the On-Orbit Test Team, Systems Engineering and Integration IPT lead, and nominal and campaign operations team to plan, deconflict, and execution risk reduction activities for system effectiveness. This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off. Your mission, should you choose to accept: • Provide technical solutions to enable the end state of the Mission Execution Planning Team against dynamic priorities and objectives in support of system effectiveness evaluations • Contribute to design, planning, and execution of mission enabling risk reduction activities with customer and end user community • Support the design, planning, and execution of activities within the end user community • Support modeling and simulation of risk reduction activities with simulation capabilities and generate reports and assessments in support of on-orbit execution • Contribute as a subject matter expert in space vehicle hardware configuration and trajectory flight safety in support of activity readiness reviews and recommendations • Support assessments of systems effectiveness based on constellation design, space vehicle capability, ground system capability, and enterprise integrations • Perform system-of-system trades, modeling, simulation and analysis to assess space mission architecture alternatives for delivering a customer mission effect, data or capability as it fits within a broader campaign This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company. This position can be filled at either a Level 3 or Level 4. Basic Qualifications for Level 3 • Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience or Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience or PhD with 1 year of professional experience • Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application • Basic understanding of rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) and the design of dynamic satellite trajectories against constraints, restraints, and objectives • Experience operating satellite systems in a dynamic environment Basic Qualifica