Principal Systems Engineer / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - Reliability - R10189502

Northrop Grumman; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to enhance system reliability and maintainability. This role involves performing complex analyses and developing strategies to ensure robust engineering solutions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment, collaborating with diverse teams to tackle engineering challenges. With a focus on innovation and excellence, this position offers the chance to contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of technology. Join a forward-thinking organization that values creativity and teamwork, and be part of a mission that makes a real difference in people's lives.

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Life and disability insurance

Company paid holidays

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Reliability and Maintainability engineering.
• Proficient in conducting reliability studies and evaluations.
• Strong communication skills for team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Perform R&M allocations and predictions for system reliability.
• Develop FMECA and BIT testability analysis.
• Collaborate with teams on reliability-related issues.

Skills

Reliability Engineering

Maintainability Engineering

Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

Built In Test (BIT)

Statistical Process Control

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Master’s Degree in STEM

PhD in Engineering

Tools

Reliability Growth Testing (RGT)

Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)

Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)

Job description

Principal Systems Engineer / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - Reliability - R10189502

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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

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.

This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems has an opening for a Principal Systems Engineer / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - Reliability to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located onsite in Melbourne, FL.

Accomplish

You will be assigned work in the Product Support organization performing System Reliability & Maintainability (R&M) Engineering Analysis. Candidate will be responsible for establishing, monitoring, and verifying subsystem R&M performance requirements for all design changes and new development efforts to ensure that R&M program requirements are achieved. The primary responsibility of the position will be reliability, maintainability, and testability.

Essential Functions

• Perform R&M allocations and predictions
• Develop Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) analysis
• Perform Built In Test (BIT) testability analysis
• Develop mission reliability analysis
• Support the development of teams in the investigation of issues
• Familiarity with Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Experience with Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
• Experience with maintainability demonstrations
• Experience with Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), Reliability Growth Testing (RGT), and Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)
• Liaison with Integrated Product Teams (IPT) and suppliers for the R&M of assigned subsystems
  
  

You should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative/team settings across all levels. You must be able to collaborate closely with system engineers, hardware designers, and integration/test engineers. The engineer may develop, coordinate and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs. Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability. Compile and analyze performance reports and process control statistics; investigate and analyze relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes. Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards. Analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives. May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks. As necessary, propose changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability. May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing and specify minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.

These roles may be filled by a Principal Engineer or Sr. Principal Engineer Level.

Succeed

The individual we seek will be self-motivated, proactive, goal-oriented to help us grow our services, become even better at what we do and will possess the following qualifications.

Basic Qualifications Principal Engineer

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of engineering experience OR Master’s Degree in STEM and 3 years of engineering experience OR PhD with 2 years of engineering experience.
• Experience in Reliability and Maintainability discipline
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.
  
  

Basic Qualifications Sr Principal Engineer

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics discipline from an accredited university and 9 years of engineering experience OR Master’s Degree in STEM and 7 years of engineering experience OR PhD with 5 years of engineering experience.
• Experience in Reliability and Maintainability discipline
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Aerospace or Electrical Engineering or similar Engineering Degree.
• Minimum 5 years of experience within Reliability and Maintainability discipline.
• Excellent 2-way communication skills (upward and downward).
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management.
• Active, In scope DoD Top Secret or SCI clearance.
  
  

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Salary Range: $95,300.00 - $142,900.00Salary Range 2: $118,600.00 - $178,000.00

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.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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