Manager Structural Engineering 1

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector in San Diego, CA is seeking a Manager Structural Engineering 1 to lead the Analysis Value Stream for Reflectors & Booms. This role focuses on delivering programmatic and technical leadership with responsibility for quality, schedule, and cost.

You will supervise the analysis team, collaborate with design, manufacturing and program leadership, and perform FE analysis including dynamic, static, and thermo-elastic assessments to support flight hardware from concept

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 5+ years of analysis experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis value stream for Reflectors & Booms; ensure quality, technical execution, schedule and cost.
• Manage resources with analysis manager; oversee assignments, reviews, development, and performance.
• Own program performance; track FPY and on-time delivery; support peer reviews at product level.
• Coordinate static/dynamic test plans with tool design group; ensure compliance with program requirements.
• Standardize analysis processes; propagate lessons learned and continuous improvements.
• Generate FE models and perform analyses for normal modes, static, dynamic, thermo-elastic and hygroscopic effects.
• Support development from preliminary through design, drawing release, manufacture and verification.

Skills

Composite analysis

Material properties

Dynamic analysis

Static analysis

Finite Element Analysis

Program management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Tools

FEA

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

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's Space Sector is seeking a Manager Structural Engineering 1 to join our MEP Team in San Diego, California . This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.

Northrop Grumman Mission Enabling Products (MEP) Business Unit designs, builds, and delivers space, defense and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. Our main products include satellites and associated space components and services, launch vehicles and related propulsion systems, missile products, subsystems and defense electronics, precision weapons, armament systems, and advanced aerospace structures.

Learn more about Mission Enabling Products at our website: Mission Enabling Products | Northrop Grumman

As a Manager you will supervise as the Analysis Value Stream Leader (VSL) for Reflectors & Booms product lines that provide both programmatic and technical Analysis leadership to the PASS Operating Unit (OU). You will have responsibility for quality, technical execution, schedule, and cost. As the leader, you will manage the product value stream analysis team and work closely with program leadership, the manufacturing and testing teams, technical leaders, and functional subject matter experts within the Mission Enabling Products Business Unit. You will be expected to routinely perform analysis tasks in support of programs in conjunction with leadership roles and responsibilities. The product value stream analysis leader will report to the Analysis functional manager. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in analysis engineering and leading analysis activities.

Leadership Role and Responsibilities:

• Analysis authority for value stream - Experience with composite analysis, material properties and allowables, dynamic analysis, static analysis, etc.
• Manage resources in collaboration with analysis functional manager - Escalation, assignments, employee reviews employee development, DLY management, hiring, recruiting, and verification of work completeness and accuracy
• Own program performance - SQDEC daily management. Escalation of technical, schedule, and financial issues. Lead and/or support peer reviews at product level. Track first pass yield (FPY) and on time delivery (OTD) for analysis value stream
• Program execution and support of program requirements - Ensure technical compliance. Manage risk assessment and management across programs in value stream. Identify needs for allowables development. Ensure static/dynamic test plans are properly coordinated with tool design group. BOE's and assumptions in support of proposals
• Standardize, and improve, analysis processes within value stream - focus value stream lessons learned, best practices, and continuous improvement implementations.

Detailed Analysis Roles and Responsibilities:

• Assess structural integrity of metallic and composite structures using traditional closed form solutions, as well as finite element analysis (FEA)
• Interact with design and development teams (teams include specialists in Design, Quality, Materials, Manufacturing) to create and verify creative design solutions that meet all requirements (technical, cost, schedule)
• Generate Finite Element Models and perform FEA for normal modes, linear static stress, dynamic response/stress, thermo-elastic distortion, and hygroscopic distortion
• Support development of flight hardware from preliminary through detailed design, drawing release, manufacturing, integration, verification testing, and transportation
• Plan and oversee material characterization tests of various materials used in the design of composite structures
• Reduce material characterization test data into analysis input properties and material capability properties
• Prepare and make presentations summarizing structural assessment results for internal review boards and external customer design reviews
• Assist in assessment and disposition of discrepant hardware and hardware anomalies

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelors of Science degree in STEM with 5 years working in an e