Sentinel Principal/sr Principal Mechanical Engineer -*17696

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Roy, UT +1 · Mechanical

Mechanical Engineer role at Northrop Grumman focused on the Sentinel Program, involving collaboration on Environmental Control System hardware requirements, specifications, designs, and analyses. Responsibilities include developing requirements, generating specifications, performing heating/cooling calculations, and selecting HVAC equipment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with stakeholders to decompose technical requirements, develop complete and verifiable requirements, and conduct trade studies
  2. Generate and update specifications as part of a Systems Engineering framework for the purpose of releasing to suppliers and supporting the procurement process
  3. Develop design and analysis artifacts to support design reviews, customer deliverables, and hardware procurement workflows
  4. Perform heating and cooling calculations to size HVAC equipment
  5. Select appropriate HVAC equipment to meet size and system requirements

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related STEM field
  • Minimum of 5 years (level 3) or 8 years (level 4) of relevant experience
  • U.S. Citizen
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain Special Access Programs (SAP) clearance
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools - PowerPoint, Excel, Word
  • Ability to understand and interpret requirements
  • Must be able to work independently, function in a dynamic environment, and be flexible to changing direction

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • Experience with Environmental Control Systems (ECS) and Heating, Ventilation, and Air conditioning (HVAC) system design and verification
  • Experience with producing construction drawing packages
  • Experience with Revit
  • Experience with Carrier HAP, NX, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software
  • Familiarity with Systems Engineering and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) processes
  • Professional Engineer (PE) license
  • Experience with estimation, bidding, proposals, or RFPs
  • Experience managing a subcontractor

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret security clearance
  • Special Access Programs (SAP) clearance