Senior Principal Reliability Engineer – Onsite, Secret Clearance

Northrop Grumman; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Reliability Engineer or Senior Principal Reliability Engineer to join our Specialty Engineering Team in Woodland Hills, CA. This fully onsite role requires ability to obtain a U.S.

government Secret security clearance and a background in Reliability, Maintainability, and Testability engineering for avionics and navigation systems. You will perform FMEA/FMECA analyses, support FRACAS, BIT Demos, and collaborate with IPTs and customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; Master’s with 3 years of relevant experience; PhD with 1 year relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience in Reliability, Maintainability, and Testability disciplines.
• Ability to read electronic circuit schematics and understand component failure modes/mechanisms.
• Experience developing a Piece-Part FMEA/FMECA.
• Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills to interact with team members, peers and leadership within NGMS and the customer community.
• Innovative mindset with focus on process improvement.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S Government Secret Security Clearance is required within a time frame set forth by management.

Responsibilities

• Perform Reliability and Maintainability allocations and predictions for avionics and navigation systems.
• Conduct Failure Modes Effects Analyses (FMEA), Failure Modes Effects Criticality Analyses (FMECA), and Testability analyses.
• Support Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) as needed.
• Support Built-In Test BIT Design Verification Testing (BIT Demos).
• Utilize knowledge of documents such as MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-2165 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2) to perform engineering analysis and make recommendations to design teams.
• Collaborate with Integrated Product Teams (IPT), program management, customers, and suppliers for the Reliability, Maintainability and Testability (RMT) aspects of assigned systems.
• Support identifying, planning and quoting the RMT tasks for proposals.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Maintainability

Testability

Reading schematics

Communication

Innovative mindset

Education

Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering

Master’s in Electrical Engineering

PhD in STEM

Tools

FMEA tooling

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Reliability Engineer or Senior Principal Reliability Engineer to join our Specialty Engineering Team in Woodland Hills, CA. This fully onsite role requires ability to obtain a U.S.

government Secret security clearance and a background in Reliability, Maintainability, and Testability engineering for avionics and navigation systems. You will perform FMEA/FMECA analyses, support FRACAS, BIT Demos, and collaborate with IPTs and customers.