Manager Hardware Engineering 3

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; Presencial; USD 168.000 - 263.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Relocation assistance

Travel opportunities

Descripción de la vacante

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Manager Hardware Engineering 3 (Discipline Execution lead for Hardware Engineering) to oversee sector discipline execution across Linthicum, MD, Rolling Meadows, IL, or San Diego, CA. The role requires up to 25% travel and a Secret clearance.

You'll lead a geographically distributed team, define common hardware engineering practices, and partner with cross‑functional groups to drive cost, performance, and schedule improvements while guiding audits and continuous

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 9+ years of experience, or Master’s with 7+ years, or PhD with 4+ years.
• Experience leading hardware development across the product lifecycle.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to hire and staff engineering teams; manage cross-functional partnerships.
• Demonstrated ability to drive performance improvements and cost/schedule outcomes.

Responsabilidades

• Lead hardware engineering discipline execution across sector sites.
• Define and deploy common tools, standards, and processes for hardware engineering.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, program management and other functions to improve competitiveness.
• Manage audits, independent reviews, and corrective actions; drive continuous improvement.
• Travel up to 25% to support distributed teams and program milestones.

Conocimientos

Communication skills

Project management

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical depth in hardware

Strategic thinking

Educación

Bachelor’s Degree in STEM

Master’s degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Descripción del empleo

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: 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.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission‑enabling solutions for global security. We have a wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi‑domain systems and technologies. Our differentiated battle management and cyber solutions deliver timely, mission‑enabling information and provide superior situational awareness and understanding to protect the U.S. and its global allies. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is looking for you to join our team as a Manager Hardware Engineering 3 (Discipline Execution lead for Hardware Engineering) based out of Linthicum, MD or Rolling Meadows, IL or San Diego, CA with travel up to 25%.

What You’ll get to Do:

Join the Sector Engineering organization (formerly Strategy & Engineering Excellence [S&EE]) and function as the Discipline Execution lead for Hardware Engineering. This organization enables continuously improving engineering execution and deploys strategy in close partnership with division‑aligned engineering teams. We are a trusted partner in Engineering Discipline Execution, Technology Leadership, Engineering Strategy, Technical Talent, and Advanced Analytics. We create and deliver on initiatives that need a broad sector approach and scale outcomes achieved within a division to the sector. We define and enable commonality in tools and processes. We merge insights across engineering and other functional areas, unify the broad engineering team, and act on near‑, mid‑, and long‑term plans to achieve our strategy. The Discipline Execution lead for Hardware Engineering directly reports to the Director of Engineering Discipline Execution. The role is responsible for seeking and defining commonality in hardware engineering disciplines across the sector’s sites, while enabling site specific approaches necessary for their technology areas. This critical role requires extensive collaboration across engineering disciplines of Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Hardware or Design Engineering, Integration and Test Engineering, and more. The team is responsible for defining common tools, standards, processes, techniques, and oversight methods across sites. The Lead will understand positive and negative trends and create action plans for both. In conjunction with the Engineering Strategy team, the Engineering Discipline Execution team will collaborate on a future vision and employ near‑, mid‑, and long‑term actions to achieve organizational objectives. The Lead will be responsible to source the necessary Hardware Engineering talent for successful audits, independent review teams, root cause and corrective actions, and others. The Lead will also partner extensively with cross‑functional organizations to target improvements that benefit overall business outcomes, e.g., Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality and Mission Assurance, Business Management, Program Management. The Discipline Execution lead for Hardware Engineering will lead a geographically distributed team of engineering professionals aligned across various organizations to accomplish the role. The Lead facilitates the deployment of long‑term corporate, cross‑sector, and intra‑sector system engineering transformation efforts, with focus on continuous process improvement, guidance, coaching, and training. This role is responsible for understanding and applying various engineering lifecycles, defining a future‑state vision for how engineering should operate, and developing practical plans to achieve that state. The position is expected to leverage a strong technical foundation and strategic thinking to influence multiple levels of leadership and customers, driving cost, performance, and schedule outcomes, as well as continuous improvement, to enable innovative and effective execution of engineering activities.

Specific Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Discipline Execution
• Ensure hardware engineering organizations across the sector are operating with predictable, repeatable rigor
• Perform analysis to understand process differences between sites and, in collaboration with site leaders, implement change that achieves commonality to achieve business outcomes
• Define oversight methods (e.g., metrics)
• Implement methods to drive hardware engineering program performance and engineering organizational performance across cost, schedule, technical, quality, critical skills and staff, and various other areas
• Collaborate on engineering long‑term vision and strategic alignment
• Execute strategy and collaborate with organizational peers to stay ahead of industry trends and opportunities for innovation and engineering differentiation
• Partner with division engineering teams to improve hardware engineering competitiveness

Includes:

• Leveraging sector reusable engineering assets (processes, guidance, tools, templates, and training) to design affordable systems at the speed of customer need
• Providing support to program and product line teams through coaching and mentoring on the use of these sector assets
• Partnering with other organizations to enhance hardware engineering, mission engineering, digital design and product line engineering processes across programs
• Partner with other organizations to establish metrics and other measures focused on execution
• Improving engineering through updated, automated, and efficient processes
• When required, act as a sector interface to corporate, cross‑sector, and/or intra‑sector teams
• Foster collaboration through groups such as reusable asset authorities, advisory boards, communities of practice, and centers of excellence

Process & Standards & Audits

• Lead team focused on hardware engineering Principles and Operating Procedures (PrOP);
• Perform analysis on audit results to understand process gaps, process escapes, and implement plans to update processes and/or work with audited groups to rectify any issues

Cross‑Functional Partnerships

• Partner with other functional organizations (manufacturing, supply chain, program management, etc.) to enable competitive engineering design and performance, including changes to engineering processes, tools, data, and workflows
• Coordinating technical SMEs to support critical program milestones such as Hardware Requirements Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, Manufacturing Readiness Reviews, etc.
• Coordinate technical SMEs across organizations in support of other key decision points (e.g. Non‑Advocate Reviews, Independent Review Teams, audits/ technical oversight, etc.)

Travel

• Position requires travel up to 25% of the time to support distributed team

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) and 9+ years of experience, or a Master’s degree STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) and 7+ years of experience, or a PhD STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) and 4+ years of experience
• Experience working across multiple lines of business and functional disciplines (e.g. manufacturing, supply chain, business management, strategy & business development)
• Demonstrated experience leading hardware development across the product development lifecycle (from design – to – systems deployment), either as a lead engineer, chief engineer, product IPT leader
• Demonstrated success in championing change within the organization to achieve competitive advantage for the business
• Technical experience hardware, mechanical or electrical engineering within the aerospace & defense industry with direct and tangible Systems Engineering experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of hiring, staffing, engineering metrics and training resources, processes, and tools
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project management skills
• Solid understanding of engineering process, including a working familiarity with ISO 9001, AS9100, and CMMI

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Top‑Secret Clearance or higher and the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI and Special Access Clearance
• Demonstrated ability to partner with other stakeholders to achieve an optimum balance between project‑level execution and enterprise‑level efficiencies that improve overall sector performance and competitiveness
• Ability to operate independently based on strategic objectives, work in a team environment, and collaborate across the corporation as required to accomplish team goals
• Proven success in creating and executing affordability initiatives
• Experience leading geographically dispersed functional teams, including team members working remotely
• Experience engaging with and briefing all levels of management - from CEO, to front‑line leadership
• Good general knowledge of Northrop Grumman portfolio of products, technologies and customers
• Demonstrated ability to innovate while challenging traditional ways of doing business
• Experience managing people

Primary Level Salary Range:

$167,500.00 - $263,200.00 The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

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

We are a pioneering company. With careers across all areas: air, cyber, land, sea and space – our 90,000 employees work as one to defend and define the future. Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will give you every opportunity to do your best work. Working together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines, we share a drive to push the boundaries of science, technology and engineering to meet the ever evolving needs of our customers worldwide.