Senior Design & Producibility Manager — Advanced Programs

Northrop Grumman

Redondo Beach (CA)

On-site

USD 161,100 - 241,700

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Redondo Beach, CA, seeks an Advanced Design and Producibility Manager 2 to guide early design decisions with manufacturing strategy, producibility, affordability, and credible business cases. This role bridges engineering execution with business strategy and supports proposal development across survivability programs.

The ideal candidate will lead cross-functional teams, evaluate manufacturing feasibility, and ensure cost, schedule, and performance

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in a STEM discipline with 9+ years of relevant experience.
Active U.S. government Secret clearance.
Experience leading technical teams, IPTs, cross-functional or matrixed engineering/manufacturing organizations.
Experience influencing design decisions to improve producibility, affordability, manufacturability, assembly efficiency, testability, production scalability, or risk.
Experience bridging engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, test, operations, program management, and capture.
Experience developing or evaluating manufacturing strategies, build plans, tooling concepts, cost drivers, schedules, or production-readiness plans.
Experience supporting proposal development, capture strategy, basis-of-estimate, price-to-win, affordability analysis, or early technical baseline.
Experience with SAP.

Responsibilities

Manage a diverse set of Survivability CRAD and IRAD development programs.
Oversee cost, schedule, and technical performance of research programs and engineering staff.
Interface with Engineering Organizations for staffing, growth and performance appraisals.
Lead all phases of Survivability Portfolio programs from inception to completion.
Define and integrate survivability designs, concepts, criteria and engineering efforts.
Coordinate requirements with NGAS divisions and technology investments.
Develop and execute Research & Technology roadmaps for internal and external customers.
Prepare proposals, budgets, statements of work and contract terms; participate in contract negotiations.