• Serve as the technical authority and primary decision maker for all milestones, including System Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR), and the subsequent flight-test phases.
• Coordinating test planning, executing hardware and software verifications, managing data-collection efforts, analyzing results, and ensuring that technical deliverables meet performance, safety, and schedule objectives.
• Executing the integration, test, and assembly of the AVE in preparation for developmental flight testing
• Integrate hardware from sub-system teams, interface with other elements teams, and the system and segment level teams
• Interface with software developers and systems engineers in support of integration and test activities
• Write and deliver test presentations in support of program reviews and customer delivery (CDRL) development
• Participate in technical exchange meetings, interfacing with customers (internal/external) and contributing to a broad range of program deliverables

• T06: 14 Years with Bachelors in Science; 12 Years with Masters; 10 Years with PhD.
• Clearance - U.S. citizen eligible for a Secret (or higher) security clearance and able to obtain any program-specific clearance required.
• Requires at least 5 years leading large, cross-functional missile/launch-vehicle programs.
• Identify and escalate nonconformances, test anomalies, and hardware issues; Coordinate root-cause and corrective-action activities with the appropriate engineering teams
• Full-lifecycle execution - Experience driving program execution through various phases of the acquisition lifecycle (System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, or flight-test execution) with experience as a technical-approval authority for drawings, analyses, test plans, or other related work products.
• Technical communication - Strong ability to translate complex technical information into clear briefings for senior leadership, customer partners, and range authorities, enabling rapid and accurate decision-making.
• Leadership & mentorship - Experienced in mentoring junior engineers and leading formal development programs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Missile-system proficiency - Experience designing developing, testing, integrating, and/or analyzing missile systems and subsystems (propulsion, aerodynamics, flight-control, structures, and/or guidance-navigation-control).

• Test-campaign leadership - Experience related to flight-test campaigns, including planning, execution and data capture, and post-test analysis.

• Process-improvement champion - Initiated and institutionalized process improvements that became organization-wide best-practice templates.

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.

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Primary Level Salary Range: $151,400.00 - $227,000.00

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.

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.