Principal Systems Engineer - F35 Project Engineer

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Redondo Beach, CA +1 · Systems/Architecture/Test

Principal Systems Engineer for the F35 Project Engineering role at Northrop Grumman, focusing on planning and executing change packages, maintaining technical integration, cost, and schedule. Requires coordination with customers and internal IPTs, driving change execution across departments, and presenting status to leadership. The role demands strong communication, organization, and the ability to manage multi-disciplinary projects in a dynamic environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Plan and execute change packages
  2. Maintain technical integration, cost, and schedule, and support organization impacts associated with each unique package
  3. Drive change execution between Engineering, Global Supply Chain and Production to completion
  4. Present status and issues to Program Leadership
  5. Coordinate with the customer as well as the internal Integrated Product Teams (IPT)s

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors degree in a STEM field and at least 5 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 3 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 1 year of relevant military / professional / academic experience
  • active DoD Secret or higher clearance
  • Technical knowledge and practice in design, analysis, cross-functional integration, or on-aircraft experience with Subsystems, Composites, or Metallic Structures
  • Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills
  • Experience in managing the implementation of multi-disciplinary projects and stakeholders
  • Customer facing and leadership facing presentation experience
  • Ability to distill complex issues and convey to a wide audience
  • Knowledge with Configuration Management
  • Ability to excel in a fast paced environment

Nice to have

  • Final DoD security clearance Secret or above
  • Experience with leading Root Cause Corrective Actions (RCCA)
  • Government Contracts experience
  • Team leadership and technical delegation experience highly desired
  • Experience with Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing and Test documentation
  • Familiarity with Cost/schedule/budget concepts and tools (EVMS, SAP, etc.)
  • Experience with production rate vehicle development

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret or higher clearance
  • Secret
  • Secret or above