Manager Electrical Engineering 2

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE TYPE: SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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.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.
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems sector is looking for you to join our team as an Electrical Engineering Manager 2 - Section Manager based out of San Diego, CA.

Location: You will work onsite with your team daily in San Diego CA.

Environment: You will get to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment in the Navigation, Intelligence, and Connectivity Division's Engineering and Sciences functional homeroom collaborating with profit & loss, quality, mission assurance, global supply chain, and business management.

Impact: The engineering you create delivers critical mission capabilities to our customers. The team that you manage, mentor, challenge, and grow is our future talent!

New Tools: You will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to implement product lifecycle management upgrades and adopt AI, Model-based Engineering, and Agile toolsets.

Leadership: You will strengthen our team's continued growth based on agility, accountability, and speed to meet engineering and business objectives.

Fit: You have a sense of pride when you develop employee career and technical skills and find solutions to complex cross-engineering-domain problems.

What You'll Get to Do
Team Size: You will functionally manage a team of 12 - 15 engineers in the San Diego Hardware Engineering Department who are matrixed to support programs in the Connectivity and Networked Solutions Business Unit.
You will be responsible for functional management and program engineering work (average split of 20% FHR and 80% program-direct across the year).
Functional Management:

Develop your team team's careers and empower them to achieve engineering rigor, program milestones/goals in alignment with company policies and best practices.

Perform workforce planning, staffing, recruiting, and onboarding based on business pipeline and talent goals.

Execute FHR department-developed initiatives at the section level to improve agility, accountability, and speed in areas such as training and process tailoring for shorter engineering release cycle time.

Electrical Engineering: Your electrical engineering design and technical support is approximately 80% directly on programs involving Communications Navigation Identification (CNI) systems within our Fighter Networked System (FNS) Operating Unit (OU). It will align with our program needs and your electrical engineering background (digital, RF, mixed-signal, HW systems, HW I&T, Platform integration, HW test engineering - are examples).