Sentinel Director of Sentinel Systems Engineering- Systems Engineering Director 2

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Roy, UT +1 · Systems/Architecture/Test

Director of Systems Engineering for the Sentinel strategic missile program, responsible for leading the Systems Engineering Operating Unit. This role involves overseeing MBSE, MS&A, system architecture, technical baseline management, and P&L performance for a highly complex, large-scale defense system. Requires significant leadership experience and a strong understanding of defense systems engineering processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the Sentinel Systems Engineering (SE) Operating Unit, reporting to the Vice President of Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT).
  2. The Sentinel strategic missile program is one of the largest and most complex system integration projects in history, with hundreds of missiles, hundreds of operating facilities, millions of lines of code, thousands of support equipment and training devices, and hundreds of technical training programs to enable industry and USAF to operate and maintain the system without fail in the most challenging conditions.
  3. A successful SE Director will provide the experience and vision to drive weapon system level engineering and development of the war fighter mission and will have mature judgment to navigate complex technical and program interfaces across NG system segments, the acquisition customer, and various government enterprise partners.
  4. The System Engineering Director is responsible and accountable for profit and loss (P&L) performance against the program plan, technical performance and credibility of the team, technical competencies developed within the team, and the technical quality of the weapon system products.
  5. As a senior leader, you act with integrity, and the highest ethical standards in everything you do.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in STEM
  • minimum 10 years of engineering experience or MS degree and 8 years of related engineering experience
  • Minimum of 5 years in leadership
  • Experience with Profit & Loss accountability and earned value management
  • Experience in Agile development, processes, and tools
  • Active DoD Secret clearance, investigation must have been completed within last 5 years

Nice to have

  • Experience in Systems Engineering of ICBM’s, missile programs, and/or BMC2 systems.
  • Top Secret clearance
  • People skills include effective listening, persuasion, mentoring, coaching, & an ability to attract and sponsor talent.
  • Experience interacting and communicating at the senior manager level with government counterparts and distinguished visitors.
  • Working knowledge of systems engineering, particularly Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) and/or Model Based Test and Evaluation (MBTE)
  • Earned value management system, supplier management, and risk/issue/opportunity management system experience.
  • A record of leading large teams to successfully deliver first time quality on schedule affordably.

What the JD emphasized

  • Active DoD Secret clearance
  • Profit & Loss accountability
  • earned value management
  • systems engineering process development, execution, and audit