Technical Hardware Lead - Hypersonic Vehicle

Northrop Grumman Corp.; Roy (UT); On-site; USD 139,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Corp. is seeking a Technical Hardware Lead in Roy, Utah, to direct a multidisciplinary team for a hypersonic vehicle program.

You will coordinate with the PM to align schedule, costs, and technical requirements, while identifying resource constraints and ensuring performance targets are met. The ideal candidate will demonstrate leadership, strong communication, and a proactive approach in a fast-paced R&D environment, with a focus on manufacturability and interface control

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related STEM field
• Minimum of 12 years of relevant experience
• U.S. citizen
• Active Secret clearance, at time of application, current and within scope, with an investigation date within the last 6 years
• Experience working with Electrical Engineering Teams
• Experience working with Aerothermal teams and Aerodynamicists
• Experience understanding, organizing, distributing and status tasking
• Experience balancing cost, technical, and schedule in coordination with Program Management
• Experience creating and releasing mechanical product definition packages (PDPs)
• Knowledge of typical aerospace manufacturing processes and designing for manufacturability
• Experience designing air vehicle structures
• Experience developing mechanical interfaces and creating Interface Control Models (ICMs)
• Proficiency with GD&T following ASME Y14.5
• Experience managing large system CAD models and mechanical interfaces
• Experience assessing and managing mass properties for large systems (knowledge of AIAA S-120A preferred)
• Experience performing air vehicle static structural assessments including pressure mapping, inertial loading, and buckling
• Experience developing first-order structural sizing tools for quick turn assessments
• Demonstrated technical leadership abilities
• Demonstrated performance executing in a fast-paced R&D environment

Responsibilities

• Lead the Technical Hardware team for a hypersonic vehicle and work with PM to execute the schedule, cost, and technical requirements
• Identify resource constraints or other constraints for executing tasking and support the PM in developing schedule and tasking
• Coordinate with the Office Chief Engineer to ensure technical performance is met
• Demonstrate strong leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills to drive project success

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Communication

Teamwork

Project management

Systems engineering

GD&T ASME Y14.5

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Siemens NX

Siemens Teamcenter

ANSYS Mechanical

Model-based Definition (MBD)

Job description

Northrop Grumman Corp. is seeking a Technical Hardware Lead in Roy, Utah, to direct a multidisciplinary team for a hypersonic vehicle program.

You will coordinate with the PM to align schedule, costs, and technical requirements, while identifying resource constraints and ensuring performance targets are met. The ideal candidate will demonstrate leadership, strong communication, and a proactive approach in a fast-paced R&D environment, with a focus on manufacturability and interface control