Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Test Engineering Manager 2. This position is located in Roy, UT and supports the Sentinel Program.
This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.
The selected candidate will be responsible for a Test Engineering discipline Section within the SDS Test Engineering organization and will report directly to an SDS Test Engineering Department Manager. You will provide career mentorship and operational support to a Functional Home Room (FHR) team (Section) of between 6 and 12 Individual Contributors (ICs) based on Engineering goals, objectives, and company policy. Key FHR responsibilities will be personnel performance management, process familiarization and training for Section members, as well as staffing of roles on projects.
As a Section Manager you will be expected to spend roughly 20% of your effort on Functional Homeroom responsibilities with 80% of your efforts focused on a technical assignment on an SDS project or IPT (80% technical scope not a part of the requisition)
What You’ll Get To Do:
- Grow, develop, and manage a diverse team of network engineers, system administrators
- Develop and deploy a flight test network
- Coordinate with key stakeholders to ensure that requirements and capabilities are captured and implemented
- Interface with internal and external customers
- People leadership for a diverse engineering organizations, to include performance management, career development, staffing, and merit planning
- Working with program leadership to assess issues and developing resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and program cost/schedule objectives as well as developing and maintaining metrics for monitoring the team's progress
- Managing cost accounts associated with assigned statement of work
As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems, 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 positions 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.
You’ll Bring These Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree with 8 years of related work experience: or Masters and 6 years of related experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an 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
- Experience support the development of test networks
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
- Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance at time of application with an investigation completed within the last 6 years.
- At least 1 year leading a project and/or driving performance against schedule
- 3+ years’ experience leading project/program teams/efforts
- Familiarity with network development/deployment
- Subcontract/IWO management experience
- Experience managing teams across multiple states/locations
- Demonstrated ability to lead/manage a project including task development, scheduling, tracking, reporting statu
- Proven capable of being organized, efficient, and handling multiple tasks while paying attention to detai
- Excellent written and oral communication as candidate will be expected to prepare briefings for leadership
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of related work experience, or a master’s degree with 6 years of related experience; an additional 4 years may substitute for the degree.
- Active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at application, current and within scope.
- Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program approval.
- Experience supporting the development of test networks.
- Active DoD Top Secret security clearance with an investigation completed within the last 6 years.
- At least 1 year leading a project or driving performance against schedule.
- Three or more years leading project or program teams or efforts.
- Familiarity with network development and deployment.
- Subcontract or IWO management experience.
- Experience managing teams across multiple states or locations.
- Ability to lead and manage projects, including task development, scheduling, tracking, and status reporting.
- Strong organization, efficiency, multitasking, and attention to detail.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including preparing leadership briefings.
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