RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman’s Defense Systems is looking for a Reliability Engineer Level 3/4 with the ability to obtain a security clearance to work with our talented Advanced Weapons team located in Northridge, CA.

As an integral part of our multi-discipline engineering team in Advanced Weapons, you will be on the forefront of developing next generation solutions to protect technology for our nation’s warfighter. The ideal candidate will be supporting our Advanced Programs for defining and architecting a secured missile weapon system. This position will require close collaboration with team members of other projects within the organization for security architecture designs as well as external partners and customers.

This position requires the selected candidate to work on-site in Northridge, CA. Telework is not available for this position.  Relocation assistance, although not guaranteed, may be available.

What You’ll Get to Do:

Perform reliability and maintainability allocations and predictions for missile systems.Develop/Analyze Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Built-In Test (BIT) and Testability analyses.Develop mission success/reliability analyses.Develop/Analyze Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).Support Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS).Perform Failure Analysis and Risk Assessment.Support BIT Design Verification Testing to evaluate BIT effectiveness.Support Maintainability and Testability Demonstrations.Support Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and Reliability Growth Testing (RGT).Utilize knowledge of documents such as MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-2155 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2).Develop trustworthy customer relationships via excellent communication, technical insight and successful execution of programs.Collaborate with Integrated Product Teams (IPT), program management, customers, and suppliers for the reliability, maintainability and testability (RMT) aspects of assigned systems.Support identifying, planning and quoting the RMT tasks for proposals. 

Basic Qualifications Level 3:

BS in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related STEM discipline with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or MS with 3 years of relevant experience.Demonstrated experience in Reliability and Maintainability disciplines, such as familiarity with MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-2155 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2).Familiarity with electronic circuit schematics and component failure modes/mechanisms.Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills to be able to interact with team members, peers and leadership within NGDS and the customer community.Innovative mindset with focus on process improvement.U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain a Secret DoD Security Clearance within a reasonable period of time to support program needs.

Basic Qualifications Level 4:

BS in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related STEM discipline with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, or MS with 6 years of relevant experience, or PhD with 4 years relevant experience.Demonstrated experience in Reliability and Maintainability disciplines, such as familiarity with MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-2155 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2).Familiarity with electronic circuit schematics and component failure modes/mechanisms.Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills to be able to interact with team members, peers and leadership within NGDS and the customer community.Innovative mindset with focus on process improvement.U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain a Secret DoD Security Clearance within a reasonable period of time to support program needs.

Preferred Qualifications Level 3/4:

Electrical Engineering Degree.Experience with hands-on RMT analysis and modeling skills for electronic and non-electronic systems.Knowledge of reliability techniques including Weibull analysis, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Monte Carlo Simulation and others.Experience with Reliability analysis software and modeling tools.Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees, management and customers .Knowledge of Reliability Maintainability and Testability disciplines.Ability to read circuit schematics and mechanical drawings.Possess active Secret DoD Security Clearance.

Primary Level Salary Range: $100,300.00 - $150,500.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $124,900.00 - $187,300.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.