Sr. Principal Reliability & Maintainability Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 123,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector seeks a Sr. Principal Reliability & Maintainability Systems Engineer to join our team on-site in Melbourne, FL.

You will lead R&M engineering analysis, set performance requirements for design changes, and ensure program reliability objectives across development efforts. The role emphasizes reliability, maintainability, and testability, with collaboration across system engineers, hardware designers, and test engineers in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in Reliability and Maintainability discipline.
• Ability to transfer and maintain US Government Secret clearance.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform R&M allocations and predictions.
• Develop FMECA analysis and BIT/testability assessments.
• Develop mission reliability analyses and environmental testing plans.
• Collaborate with IPTs and suppliers for R&M activities.

Skills

Reliability engineering

FMECA analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

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.

Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector has an opening for a Sr. Principal Reliability & Maintainability Systems Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located onsite in Melbourne, FL. This is 100% on-site work.

You will be assigned work in the Product Support organization performing System Reliability & Maintainability (R&M) Engineering Analysis. You 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. You 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.

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:

• Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics discipline from an accredited university and 8 years of engineering experience OR Master's Degree in STEM and 6 years of engineering experience OR PhD with 1 years of engineering experience.
• Experience in Reliability and Maintainability discipline
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated US 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 communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management
• Active, In scope US Government Top Secret or SCI clearance

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Primary Level Salary Range: $122,800.00 - $184,200.00

The above salary range represents a general guid