Project Engineer 3 / 4

Description

*Please be aware that this position is contingent upon capturing program award(s) and obtaining and maintaining associated business and/or customer funding. Furthermore, this position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company. Continued employment thereafter will be subject to maintenance at the level of clearance and program access required for the position in the future*

Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As a Project Engineer – Level 3 or Level 4 located in Promontory, UT, you’ll be a linchpin in missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one. The preferred location for this role is Promontory, UT. May consider one of the following major Space sector locations: Magna, UT; Clearfield, UT; or Hill Air Force Base, UT.   

The Project Engineer is responsible for establishment and execution of all technical aspects of Development, Qualification, and Production of a Hypersonic rocket motor.  These positions will manage the technical products and aspects associated with the design, engineering & manufacturing development (EMD), qualification, and the follow-on production phases. The Project Engineer may also be responsible for the scale up of products, processes, tooling, and facilities for low rate and high rate production. Fast paced development programs offer the potential for the Project Engineer to work with a variety of resources/teams/divisions and witness the entirety of the programs engineering lifecycle.  Currently there are three potential Project Engineer job openings depending upon the candidates interests and abilities. 

This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Coordinates across IPTs with fellow PEs on design, process, and quality of the product 

• Develop program execution plans and works closely with the Program Office 

• Required to interface with Customer regularly as the technical POC 

• Ability to work with a wide range of positions both within and outside of NGC 

• Supports production operations (manufacturing and quality) 

• Development, coordination, and allocation of requirements 

• Assemble and develop efficient cross functional teams to execute plans 

• Identify design concepts and mature into design solutions that meet the customer needs 

• Develop master schedules, integrated logic flows, work breakdown, and assist in program cost estimates.

• Coordination and implementation of design and analysis activities 

• Development of test plans and coordination of testing with test engineers 

• Identification of risks/mitigations and tracking to closure in Risk Tracker 

• Lead the coordination and conducting of milestones reviews to Senior Leadership and Customers 

• Lead problem and failure investigations 

• Write technical reports 

• Presentations – internal and external 

• Ability to Travel expectation of 5% – 10%

• Other duties as assigned

Why you? You’re the candidate we’re searching for if you are ready to achieve the impossible alongside like-minded innovators.

This position is contingent upon capturing program award(s) as well as obtaining and maintaining associated business and/or customer funding prior to start date.

Basic Qualifications for Level 3:

• Bachelor’s degree (STEM) with 5 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 1 year of professional experience.   

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance

• Ability to perform solid modeling using NX

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance

• Ability to work with energetic materials as a U. S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, firearms and explosives; “Employee Possessor” – required.

 Preferred Qualifications:  

• Strong understanding and broad application of PS engineering systems (engineering standards, configuration management, material review board, process control, tooling, facilities, software, etc.) or equivalent 

• Demonstrated experience in generating technical solutions in the absence of complete customer requirements 

• Management of engineering scope as it pertains to budgeting and participation in EVMS evaluations 

• Experience with the proposal process 

• Knowledge and experience in System Engineering tools and disciplines 

• Knowledge of lean manufacturing and design for manufacturability

Curious about all the exciting developments with the Northrop Grumman Space Sector? Click the link below:

https://www.northropgrumman.com/space

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*Please be aware that this position is contingent upon capturing program award(s) and obtaining and maintaining associated business and/or customer funding. Furthermore, this position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company. Continued employment thereafter will be subject to maintenance at the level of clearance and program access required for the position in the future*