Sentinel Functional Homeroom Systems Engineering Manager 2 - 19770

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Excellent benefits

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager 2 in Huntsville, AL, supporting the Sentinel Program. The role combines functional leadership of up to 12 systems engineers with hands-on programmatic systems engineering oversight.

You will mentor and coach staff, manage performance, and coordinate across directorates to ensure cost, schedule, and technical objectives are met while upholding the highest ethical standards.

Qualifications

• Leadership and people management experience in complex engineering programs.
• Strong systems engineering leadership, with ability to guide cross-functional teams.
• Proven communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Functionally manage a team of systems engineers with performance reviews.
• Define work scope, assign tasks, and provide career guidance and coaching.
• Review and assure verification products and governance documents for the program.
• Report program status to senior leadership and customers.
• Coordinate with directors and other SDS areas to meet goals.
• Balance functional homeroom duties with technical assignments on projects.

Skills

Leadership

Systems engineering

Communication

Mentoring

Problem solving

Tools

DOORs

Cameo

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

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 Strategic Deterrent Systems Division is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager 2. This position will be in Huntsville, AL , supporting the Sentinel Program.

What You'll Get To Do:

The successful candidate will join the Sentinel Program's System Engineering Team in the development of weapon system interfaces, requirement analysis, verification planning, and programmatic system engineering technical direction.

The selected candidate will clearly demonstrate strong leadership skills with a track record as a motivated leader, an effective communicator and problem solver who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. The selected candidate will demonstrate a commitment to ethics and integrity, and the capability to innovate while challenging traditional ways of doing business. Demonstrated abilities to build diverse and inclusive teams with high levels of engagement, including mentoring and coaching, are a must. The selected candidate will have an ability to operate in a team environment and collaborate across directorate and SDS business areas as required to accomplish team, department, and directorate goals.

This is a dual-role manager position, involving balancing both functional oversight and leadership of up to 12 Systems Engineers as well as responsibility for a part of Sentinel program performance. The selected candidate will also be responsible for a Systems Engineering discipline Section within the SDS Systems Engineering organization and will report directly to an SDS Systems Engineering Department Manager. You will provide career mentorship and operational support to a Functional Home Room (FHR) team (Section) of Individual Contributors (ICs) based on Engineering goals, objectives, and company policy. Key FHR responsibilities will be personnel performance management, process familiarization and training for Section members, as well as staffing roles on projects.

The selected candidate will spend part of their time in support of the organization's Functional Homeroom responsibilities and part of their time on technical assignment on SDS projects or IPT; the technical scope of this role not a part of the requisition and should be part of the candidates' current roles and responsibilities. As a functional homeroom leader, responsibilities include organizational administrative activities and helping employees' performance and career development through guidance and training. The direct program responsibilities, in addition to a current assignment, may include system architecture development, requirements development/management, requirement verification planning, system design/analysis, model-based systems engineering, IPT/product owner leadership, or other appropriate technical functions. This may include, but is not limited to, the following:

• Functionally manage a team of systems engineers, including goal setting, performance reviews, quarterly feedback, pay and promotion recommendations
• Define team members' work scope, assign and evaluate tasks, provide performance feedback and career counseling, ensure traceability of all products to approved baselines
• Review technical content and accuracy of verification products and team member contributions to system verification
• Review technical content and accuracy of weapons system governance and requirements products and team member contributions to governance and requirements
• Collect status and report program status and progress to senior leadership and government customers
• Serve as liaison with employees and supervisors at equivalent levels, up to vice-president and Executive Leadership Team (ELT), if needed
• Ensure projects are completed on cost and schedule following established procedures.
• CDRL and/or metrics owner for DOORs, Cameo, and other weapon system development content.

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including Medical, Dental & Vision covera