Manager 3 Avionics Engineering - Process Execution & Metrics

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE TYPE: SAPTRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time 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.This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.
Northrop Grumman's Aeronautics Systems (NGAS) sector has an opening for a Manager 3 Process, Execution, and Metrics (PEM) on the Avionics Integration East team. This role is located in Melbourne, Florida. This role reports functionally to the Director of Avionics Integration East and programmatically to the Engineering, Integration & Execution (EI&E) Avionics & Software Engineering Director for the assigned program.
Job Summary: In this leadership role, you will be responsible for managing staffing requirements and serve as the primary interface to Avionics Integration to ensure staffing needs are met. You will help establish and monitor engineering metrics to ensure technical rigor and continuous improvement. You will provide mentorship and guidance to the avionics staff and section managers based on program and engineering goals, objectives, and company policy. In collaboration with engineering leads, the Avionics PEM lead also helps ensure that technical, cost, and schedule performance measures are being met. Additionally, you will ensure that avionics design and development approaches comply with sector processes, procedures and best design/architecture approaches and drives reuse of design concepts from across the sector while meeting first time engineering quality and affordability objectives. The successful candidate will demonstrate leadership skills including the ability to work effectively in a team environment and possesses effective communication and presentation skills at all levels.
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

Act as a primary entity for all avionics disciplines across all IPTs and SMTs

Ensure technical quality of products and deliverables

Identify and manage resources and staffing to ensure successful execution of program and technical baselines

Review and analyze released engineering change requests for approval

Present technical and program information to internal and external stakeholders including NGC and customer leadership

In cooperation with other engineering disciplines and leadership within and external to the program, ensure that relationships are developed to manage interfaces across project activities and across subcontractors

Contribute to the resolution of critical/urgent program/technical issues

Support supplier and program deep dives

Responsible for avionics discipline technical and cost inputs for all new proposals and Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs)

Ensure that earned value management (EVM) techniques and other tools are applied to deliver predictable financial results

Collaborate with other engineering and program leads in a team-oriented environment to achieve program goals

Establish, maintain, and ensure adherence to functional process and procedures

Support strategic planning for future program phases

Support generation/definition of TPMs for the program

Supports/identifies/Updates R&O definition and mitigation discussion

Perform team performance management tasks such goal setting, providing feedback, coaching, mentoring, rewards and recognition.

Mentor, develop, and train avionics discipline personnel and collaborate with FHR management on team member professional development including training needs

Our leaders at Northrop Grumman live our values daily and encourage our teams to do the same. We do the right thing: upholding the highest ethical standards and facilitating a safe and respectful environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. We do what we promise: holding yourself and others accountable to meet predictable and balanced results. We commit to shared success: operating as OneNG and removing barriers for our teams. Finally, We pioneer: setting a vision that shapes the future and inspires others.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science (BS) in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 9 years of related professional/military engineering experience; OR a Master of Science (MS) degree in a STEM discipline and 7 years of related professional/military engineering experience

Strong technical understanding of mission systems (such as radars, flight avionics, data displays and controls, mission computing, communications)

Experience in requirements definition, derivation, and management

Experience in planning staffing requirements

Knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques