Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Mechanical Engineering Manager to lead a functional team of mechanical design engineers responsible for the design, development, and production support of cutting-edge AESA Radar hardware.
Requirements
- 2 years demonstrated success leading, collaborating, and building teams on complex technical projects.
- Demonstrated success in functional management, project management, or similar technical leadership role.
- Experience with the design and development of ruggedized electronic hardware, in particular antennas, microelectronic packages, and circuit card assemblies
- Familiarity with the processes, roles, tools and facilities related to AESA Radar hardware development at the NGMS BWI facility, including hardware design, systems engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, test, and quality assurance.
- Working experience with Siemens Teamcenter, NX, Xpedition, and Autocad design tools.
- Mechanical engineering degree or similar STEM discipline.
Responsibilities
- Managing a functional group comprised of approximately 8 mechanical engineers of varying experience levels, including performance management, merit planning, job assignment management/prioritization, career development, new employee onboarding and coaching.
- Engaging the functional team with timely flow-down of information and fostering robust collaboration within the team.
- Collaborating with project team leads to support project planning and execution activities, labor and material cost estimation, staffing, design process execution, etc.
- Maintaining awareness of each group member’s project responsibilities and performance, providing guidance, and helping them to identify resources needed to overcome obstacles and meet project objectives.
- Developing and maintaining a working knowledge of applicable design processes, guidelines, policies, and best practices, and ensuring that all functional team members are aware of and are compliant with these items.
- Supporting and leading department initiatives, which could include process improvement, workforce engagement, talent-recruitment and interviewing, training material development, technology roadmap development, cross-organization collaboration, etc.
- The manager will be expected to maintain a technical or project leadership role that comprises the remaining 80%
Other
- RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
- CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
- TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
- Bachelor’s Degree with 5 years of experience, master’s degree with 3 years of experience, Ph.D. with 1 years of experience in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or related technical fields; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
- US Citizenship is required.
