Staff Chief Engineer/hardware Ipt

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Baltimore, MD +1 · Engineering Mult-Func

Northrop Grumman is seeking an Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead with a mechanical engineering background to lead a team in transitioning designs to production for a Chilled Water program. The role involves interfacing with various departments, briefing leadership, and managing project schedules and status reporting. Requires an active Secret government clearance and experience in hardware design, integration, and test, as well as Control Account Manager (CAM) activities and Earned Value Management systems (EVMS).

What you'd actually do

  1. lead an engineering team working to transition designs to production for the Chilled Water program with many time-critical elements and high management visibility.
  2. interface with personnel in Engineering & Program Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Mission Assurance.
  3. brief internal, and potentially external customer, leadership on progress.
  4. perform in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative/team settings.
  5. be self-motivated, highly organized, detail oriented and possess effective verbal and written communication skills.

Skills

Required

  • Active and current Secret government clearance
  • hardware design and/or hardware integration & test and/or experience moving hardware through the BWI factory
  • Control Account Manager (CAM) activities and the Earned Value Management system (EVMS)
  • developing and executing project schedules
  • reporting project status to program, functional management and/or customers
  • leadership skills with 1.5 years minimum experience as an Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead, program manager or other leadership position leading engineers supporting a program or business function
  • Available onsite at the BWI facility during first shift
  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, or STEM-related degree, with 12 years of industry experience, or master’s degree and 10 years of industry experience
  • Mechanically focused engineer with experience making drawing updates, pushing drawings through HWE process, and conducting design reviews.

Nice to have

  • Demonstrated ability to plan, execute and lead a hardware team to meet cost, schedule and technical performance
  • Experience identifying and quantifying risks/opportunities
  • Experience working with Global Supply Chain and Manufacturing Material Processing
  • Experience with the Root Cause Correction Action (RCCA) process
  • Experience managing products in the critical path of a program
  • Experience with LRU/LRM Integration and testing for an EMD product transitioning to production
  • PMP certification
  • Expert on NGMS production drawing process, can execute drawings reviews and manage updates to meet all NGMS requirements, able to push through blockers
  • Strong RF and Thermal background
  • Knowledgeable on SEWIP/ SEWIP family of systems, prior work on SEWIP inTOP or other shipboard RF systems

What the JD emphasized

  • Active and current Secret government clearance
  • required to lead an engineering team
  • high management visibility
  • brief internal, and potentially external customer, leadership on progress
  • high expectations