Senior Program Ops Engineer — Top Secret Clearance

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 104,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems seeks a Principal Operations Engineer to join our Chantilly, VA team. You will troubleshoot complex systems, serve as a liaison between operations and engineering, and lead multi-disciplinary technical trades to meet performance goals.

The role requires a STEM degree with 5+ years of experience (or higher degrees with fewer years) and an active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance, with ability to obtain SAP clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 5+ years related engineering experience.
• Master’s degree in a STEM discipline with 3 years related engineering experience.
• PhD in a STEM discipline with 1 year related engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Able to work non-traditional hours, including nights, weekends and holidays or as directed by the customer.
• Troubleshoot systems to resolve complex issues by interacting and coordinating with responsible Subsystems engineers.
• Serve as an interface between the operations & engineering organization.
• Acts as local on-site representative to customer organization.
• Ensure overall system performance is met and maintained thru lower level functions/subsystems
• Perform troubleshooting, document issues and coordinate field replacements/upgrades of any impacted parts.
• Contribute to improvement of processes, design and future operations efforts.
• Self-directed technical performer with strong communication skills, demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary technical trades, and ability to develop & execute to a strategy.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 5+ years of related engineering experience

Master’s degree in STEM with 3 years of related engineering experience

PhD in STEM with 1 year of related engineering experience

Tools

MATLAB

Python

Java

Job description

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems seeks a Principal Operations Engineer to join our Chantilly, VA team. You will troubleshoot complex systems, serve as a liaison between operations and engineering, and lead multi-disciplinary technical trades to meet performance goals.

The role requires a STEM degree with 5+ years of experience (or higher degrees with fewer years) and an active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance, with ability to obtain SAP clearance.