GN&C Engineering Manager for Weapons Prime Initiative

Northrop Grumman; United States; Sur place; USD 115 000 - 172 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Total Rewards package

Relocation assistance

Résumé du poste

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector in Chandler, AZ, seeks a GN&C Manager – Level 1 to lead a GN&C engineering group focused on missile-based systems. The role emphasizes leadership, technical mentorship, and program execution in a 9/80 schedule with onsite work only.

You will guide navigation models, sensor performance, and verification strategies while coordinating with systems, flight software, and test teams to support strategic initiatives and ensure mission success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience.
• Requires an active U.S. Government Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope.
• Demonstrated experience leading, supervising, or directly managing engineering personnel and delivery of technical work.
• Demonstrated professional GN&C experience for missile-based systems, including meaningful depth in guidance, autopilot/control, and tracking or state estimation.

Responsabilités

• Lead daily execution for a GN&C engineering work group, aligning staffing, assignments, recruiting, retention, and development with program priorities.
• Provide performance management, coaching, mentoring, training, and career-development support for assigned engineers.
• Lead and technically mentor teams performing missile-based GN&C system development, including guidance, autopilot/control, tracking, state estimation, modeling, simulation, analysis, and verification.
• Manage delivery of complex GN&C tasks; establish priorities, resolve execution risks, and communicate results, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineering and program leadership.
• Partner with systems, flight software, test, digital engineering, and program teams to integrate GN&C products and support verification campaigns.
• Support programs spanning advanced weapons, tactical strike systems, missile-defense interceptors, and related space-flight applications.
• Build team integration during the first 6–12 months through clear operating rhythms, technical mentorship, and workforce-health actions.
• Act as a technical contributor, working directly with teams to define and assess navigation models and simulations, evaluate sensor and algorithm performance, support mission analysis, and shape verification approaches for critical programs
• Other duties as assigned

Connaissances

Leadership

GN&C engineering

Missile-based systems

Staff management

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Master’s degree (preferred)

Outils

MATLAB/Simulink

Flight software

Description du poste

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector in Chandler, AZ, seeks a GN&C Manager – Level 1 to lead a GN&C engineering group focused on missile-based systems. The role emphasizes leadership, technical mentorship, and program execution in a 9/80 schedule with onsite work only.

You will guide navigation models, sensor performance, and verification strategies while coordinating with systems, flight software, and test teams to support strategic initiatives and ensure mission success.