Launch Vehicle Systems Safety Engineer

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector seeks a Systems Safety Engineer at Level 2 or Level 3 to join our Chandler, AZ team, on-site. You will define safety requirements, analyze launch vehicle and ground support safety, and engage with customers and partners to ensure mission success and safety. The role requires STEM degrees, related experience, and the ability to obtain a U.S.

Secret clearance. This on-site position emphasizes collaboration across systems and operations to deliver safe, robust

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM with 2 years of related engineering experience for Level 2, or a Master's in STEM with no professional experience.
• Level 3 requires Bachelor's in STEM with 5 years of related engineering experience; or a Master's with 3 years, or a PhD with 1 year.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance.
• Experience with launch vehicle or similar system design, testing, or mission operations.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and verify System Safety requirements to mitigate risks.
• Apply the systems engineering process to define and verify launch vehicle and ground support equipment requirements to ensure safe operations and conduct system safety analyses.
• Understand the entire mission, including the launch vehicle, payload, ground support equipment, range infrastructure, and safety interfaces.
• Interact with key internal and external customers and partners regarding system safety topics.
• Support launch vehicle design and development to ensure safety, mission success, and performance goals are met.
• Analyze and explain launch vehicle designs to external customers to explain how safety requirements are met.
• Interface with customer safety and launch integration personnel and support ground operations and launch mission working groups.
• Analyze integration and test processes to demonstrate safety and mission requirements are met at various sites and facilities.
• Review product systems and establish safety requirements for assigned systems.
• Independently analyze and recommend safety criteria in design, equipment, and procedures to control hazards.
• Develop safety documents to support customer and test/operational range requirements.
• Perform audits of operational areas and report on the effectiveness of the system safety program.
• Participate in accident investigations and identify causes and corrective actions.
• Evaluate the interrelationship of system safety requirements with design and development requirements.

Skills

System Safety

Launch vehicle experience

Engineering analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Job description

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector seeks a Systems Safety Engineer at Level 2 or Level 3 to join our Chandler, AZ team, on-site. You will define safety requirements, analyze launch vehicle and ground support safety, and engage with customers and partners to ensure mission success and safety. The role requires STEM degrees, related experience, and the ability to obtain a U.S.

Secret clearance. This on-site position emphasizes collaboration across systems and operations to deliver safe, robust