Staff Safety Systems Engineer - DoD Secret, B-2 Program

Northrop Grumman; Palmdale (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Staff Safety Systems Engineer to support the B-2 program in Palmdale, CA or Oklahoma City, OK. The successful candidate will develop and deliver System Safety products using MIL-STD-882 guidance, identify hazards, and coordinate safety requirements across IPTs.

Essential duties include preparing SRR/PDR/CDR packages, flow-down of safety requirements, and mentoring engineers. Must hold DoD Secret/Top Secret clearance or higher.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and a minimum of 14 years of Engineering experience OR at least 12 years with Master’s Degree OR at least 4 years with PhD
• Understanding of and experience with a MIL-STD-882 or ARP4754 safety program
• Experience with interfacing to a military customer or safety counterpart
• Must have an active DoD Secret or Top Secret clearance or higher (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain DoD Secret clearance or higher within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs

Responsibilities

• Identify, classification, adjudication, and management of hazards in a closed-loop tracking system
• Cross-IPT coordination to support hazard and safety requirement adjudication
• Communication of safety risk to the appropriate levels
• Being cognizant of the system design and functions
• Preparing and presenting SRR, PDR, and CDR packages to document hazards and associated safety requirements
• Flow down of derived safety requirements to the appropriate IPTs
• CDRL delivery
• Acquiring design cognizance of the aircraft
• Identification, classification, and documentation of Subsystem Hazards and Critical Safety Items (CSIs)
• Mentoring various experience levels of safety engineers

Skills

System safety engineering

Hazard analysis experience

Interfacing with military customer

Safety requirement adjudication

Education

Bachelors in STEM (14+ yrs) / Masters (12+ yrs) / PhD (4+ yrs)

Mil-Std-882 / ARP4754 safety program

Tools

MIL-STD-882

ARP4754A

ARP4761

DO-178B/C

MIL-HDBK-516C

DO-254

SAE ARP4754A

AOP-52

Job description

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Staff Safety Systems Engineer to support the B-2 program in Palmdale, CA or Oklahoma City, OK. The successful candidate will develop and deliver System Safety products using MIL-STD-882 guidance, identify hazards, and coordinate safety requirements across IPTs.

Essential duties include preparing SRR/PDR/CDR packages, flow-down of safety requirements, and mentoring engineers. Must hold DoD Secret/Top Secret clearance or higher.