Sentinel - Sr Principal Infrastructure Lead Engineer - Electrical - 13685

Requisition ID: R10172361

• Category: Engineering
• Location: Roy, Utah, United States of America
• Clearance Type: Secret
• Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position
• Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
• Travel Required: Yes, 25% of the Time
• Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
• Positions Available: 1

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking an Electrical Lead Engineer with the background, vision, and people skills to serve as a senior technical leader in the Command & Launch (C&L) Infrastructure (INF) Integrated Product Team (IPT). This position will be located in Roy, UT and will support the Sentinel program.

This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You'll Get To Do:

The Electrical Lead Engineer reports to the Director of Infrastructure and is responsible for ensuring robust, timely, and well-coordinated technical products within the Infrastructure scope of work; identifying, actioning, and measuring technical process improvements and optimization; and working with other technical leaders across the Sentinel program to represent Infrastructure work products and dependencies.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Technical Excellence:

• Review INF work products via peer reviews, Design Reviews, and various board meetings to ensure adherence to the Sentinel technical baseline and associated requirements and processes.

• Balancing stringent quality standards for technical artifacts (e. g. Technical Data Packages, Product Data Packages) with the rapid pace of procurement, fabrication, and construction of test assets and early prototypes.

• Presenting sufficient information to Program Management to make informed decisions between conflicting technical approaches based upon program and IPT-level cost, schedule, and technical impacts and risk.

• In coordination with the Office of the Chief Engineer, championing process improvements that allow the systems engineering, design engineering, and analysis teams to define and board high quality products in a cost and time efficient manner.

Cross-Element Coordination:

• Working closely with technical leadership and contributors across the program to identify impacts on INF work scope resulting from external changes or impacts on external stakeholders resulting from INF artifacts.

• Developing joint solutions to cross-segment or cross-element technical challenges, balancing impacts, risks, and opportunities to identify the best overall options for the Sentinel program.

Communication:

• Decomposing direction from INF leadership and Office of the Chief Engineer to technical teams performing work and ensuring understanding and adherence to that direction.

• Negotiating competing priorities and interests across a wide range of internal and external stakeholder communities to pursue the best course of action for the Sentinel program.

• Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with a wide range of distinct internal organizations, customer communities, subcontractors, and industry partners.

• Providing regular briefings, reports, and other communications to executive leadership.

May be required to travel up to 25% of the time.

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including: 

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

• 401k

• Educational Assistance

• Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions

• Paid Time Off

• Health & Wellness Resources

• Employee Discounts

This position's standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.   

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) with 8 years of experience; or Master's degree with 6 years of experience; or PhD with 4 years of experience

• Must have an active U. S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain a U. S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need

• At least 4 year of experience leading Electrical design efforts on MILCON, major infrastructure/building projects, or Aerospace and Defense programs.

• Relevant experience must include experience with electrical and power systems design, knowledge of cable design/qualification processes, controls systems and/or engine/generator sets.

• Experience in power system studies including load flow, short circuit, arc flash, and relay coordination

• Knowledge of industry codes and standards, including the National Electric Code (NEC), National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), International Building Code (IBC) and/or Unified Facilities Criteria.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in STEM preferably an Engineering degree

• An active U. S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an active Special Access Program (SAP)

• Familiarity with TEMPEST and EMI requirements and design implementations

• Experience with ETAP Electrical Power and EasyPower System Analysis software

• Experience in NX for cable assembly routing or general mechanical design

• Proven performance as an Engineering Leader in all phases of acquisition, design, integration, and execution.

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

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated experience with high value customer presentations, with ability to focus .