Manager Engineering 2

Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU); Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 126,600 - 189,800; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Melbourne, FL seeks a Section Manager, Engineering 2 to lead the Reliability & Diagnostics section on the E-130J program. This on-site role reports to the PS Engineering Department Manager and oversees staffing, governance of logistics requirements, and MPC alignment with program needs.

The position requires a STEM degree with 7–9 years of relevant experience, ability to obtain Secret/TS clearances, and travel up to 10%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM and 9 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering OR Master’s degree with 7 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.
• Willingness to travel to various site locations to participate and represent the Product Support IPT.
• Ability to obtain and maintain US Government Secret and Top Secret clearances.
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis, FRACAS, FMEA/FMECA or related Reliability Engineering work.
• Experience reading and understanding technical data (e.g., Technical Orders, Drawings, BOMs).
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Ability to work in a fluid environment with diverse stakeholders.
• Understanding of logistics elements; maintainability, supportability, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Identify and communicate design and issue impacts across the logistics community to drive design changes.
• Prepare and manage project schedule and budgets including EVMS and status reports.
• Identify risks and opportunities and coordinate with teams to mitigate and retire risks.
• Assess issues and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction goals.
• Lead reliability engineering reviews and provide SME advice on RCAs and data analysis.
• Interface with systems engineers and other functional elements of the program.

Skills

Leadership

Reliability Engineering

Root Cause Analysis

Project Management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's in STEM

Master's in STEM

Tools

NX

SolidWorks

CAMEO

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: 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.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Section Manager, Engineering 2 to lead the (E-130J) Reliability & Diagnostics Section. This role reports to the PS Engineering Department Manager on the (E-130J) program. This leadership role is located on-site, based in Melbourne, FL.

The Section Manager provides leadership and oversight for the development, sustainment, and integration of logistics elements across a project, with primary expertise in Reliability, Maintainability, Prognostics Health Management, and Integrated Health Management Systems. This role ensures program objectives for Product Support are achieved by coordinating across engineering, operations, and sustainment disciplines, while providing functional oversight and governance of logistics requirements.

This position will partner closely with PS Department Manager to monitor technical, cost, and schedule commitments through effective alignment of staffing, execution processes, and disciplined use of engineering tools. The Section Manager forecasts staffing needs on a rolling 12-month cycle, ensures staffing requirements are entered into POST, and ensures talent is deployed, transitioned, and onboarded in sync with program demand.

This leader plays a critical role in execution program requirements while aligning functional capabilities with program needs, enabling successful execution across cost, schedule, quality, and technical performance.

Responsibilities

• Identify and communicate design and issue impacts across the larger logistics community on the program to drive design changes and ensure all program and customer requirements are addressed.
• Prepare and manage project schedule and budgets to include EVMS and prepare status reports on the health of the projects.
• Identify risks and opportunities and coordinate with project teams to mitigate and retire risks.
• Assess issues and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Prepare briefings for management/customer and develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and tools for intervention and problem solving with project managers, suppliers and clients.
• Provide reliability subject matter expert advice on assigned program.
• Provide management, guidance and development of the Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Testability Engineering Team.
• Review and disposition (as required) of system drawings in CAD, NX, Solidworks, specifications and other engineering technical data…includes Northrop Grumman, Supplier, and Government furnished technical data.
• Development oversight of model for meeting Reliability mission requirements.
• Interface between the reliability organization and other functional elements of the capture program.
• Provide advice to Systems Engineers regarding their responsibilities in accordance with the Reliability Program.
• Lead reliability engineering reviews.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university AND 9 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering, OR a Master’s degree AND 7 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.
• Must be willing and able to travel to various site locations to participate and represent the Product Support IPT.
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated U.S. government Secret clearance (must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.
• Must have ability to obtain and maintain US Government Top Secret Clearance.
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis, FRACAS, FMEA/FMECA or related Reliability Engineering work.
• Experience with reading and understanding technical data (e.g., Technical Orders, Engineering Drawings, Parts Lists, Bills of Material, Engineering Specifications, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Exercising a high degree of initiative and exhibiting advance organization skills.
• Demonstrated ability to solve a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fluid environment with diverse stakeholders.
• Understanding of logistic elements; maintainability, supportability, and reliability.
• Understanding of CAMEO requirement management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a STEM field (Mechanical or Electrical).
• Final adjudicated U.S. government Top Secret Clearance.
• Recent experience with Cameo, Magic Draw, or other MBSE tools such as Rhapsody, Sparx EA, and Enterprise Architect.
• Experience with military aircraft maintenance, operations, and sustainment.
• Practical hands‑on experience performing: Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, FRACAS, ESS, Reliability Testing, Root Cause Analysis, FMEA/FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis, sparing analysis, and related engineering work.
• Experience with or exposure to digital design initiatives and solutions to include Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Model Based Sustainment (MBS).
• Experience using CAMEO Enterprise Architecture.
• Experience with Life Cycle Cost Analysis and Modeling/Simulation.

Primary Level Salary Range: $126,600.00 - $189,800.00

U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO.