iReturn - System Safety and Relibaility Engineer/Principal System Safety and Reliability Engineer

The Northrop Grumman iReturn program provides experienced professionals with internal support, mentors, and connections with other iReturn employees to transition back to a full-time career in one of several fields at Northrop Grumman through training, professional development, and networking opportunities. The iReturn program focuses on providing a seamless transition back into the workforce.

At Northrop Grumman, we understand that sometimes we must pause our professional lives to support our family and loved ones. After taking a career break to care for children, aging parents or other family obligations, the road to return to work can be intimidating. iReturn can be the steppingstone in returning to your career.

We’re seeking applicants with prior work experience in the outlined discipline who have a recent career break of at least 2 years.

Learn more about the iReturn program here.

Job Summary

The candidate will be primarily managing and developing system safety hazards and plans through MIL-STD 882 methods or equivalent. Additionally, assistance in the development and maintenance of reliability analysis will be required. The candidate will provide programs and proposals with system safety and reliability estimates and plans, and represent the company as a premier system safety expert and subject matter expert on our products. The candidate will be trained under an experienced system safety and reliability engineer to help them better understand our product and industry.

Job Responsibilities

Work with integrated product teams in a development environment to define requirements for designing safety and reliability into systems, subsystems, and components. Execute MIL-STD-882 or NASA system safety program, from planning through hazard retirement. Responsible for performing Failure Modes and Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) on new propulsion systems including electrical and mechanical systems.  Experience with reliability calculations and methods. Support failure analysis to determine root cause of failures. Prepare safety and reliability reports both written and verbal. Present at safety boards. Determine and acquire hazard classifications for products. Directs and supports proposal-writing efforts or authors sections/volumes for System Safety Engineering for a project. Provides data to and manages risk management (identifies potential risks and develops mitigation strategies). Leads, prepares and presents System Safety and Reliability materials during System Requirement Review, System Functional Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review and System Verification Review and other formal program reviews. Performs and manages cost estimates and project planning for System Safety and/or reliability. Willingness to learn and perform additional Systems Engineering concepts or practices from the team.

This position can be filled at either the Engineer Systems (2) / Principal Engineer Systems (3) level, depending on years of experience and qualifications.

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Basic Qualifications Engineer Systems 2:

• A career break of at least 2 years.
• Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance, which requires US Citizenship as a pre-requisite
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Mathematics & 2 years of experience or Master’s Degree in Systems Engineering
• Proficient ability to use Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, Power Point, Project)
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, writing, presentation and critical thinking skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel to meet with various customers, in both government and industry, and to interface with suppliers.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more systems safety and reliability engineering job function as described above.
• Analyze requirements at all levels within the system to identify or create safety critical requirements and assign appropriate criticality index and level of rigor to SW requirements.
• Aide developing test cases to satisfy safety requirements.

Basic Qualifications Engineer Systems 3:

• A career break of at least 2 years.
• Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance, which requires US Citizenship as a pre-requisite
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Mathematics & 5 years of experience or Master’s Degree in Systems Engineering & 3 years of experience or a PhD
• Proficient ability to use Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, Power Point, Project)
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, writing, presentation and critical thinking skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel to meet with various customers, in both government and industry, and to interface with suppliers.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more systems safety engineering job function as described above.
• Analyze requirements at all levels within the system to identify or create safety critical requirements, and assign appropriate criticality index and level of rigor to SW requirements.
• Developing test cases to satisfy safety requirements
• Ability to set-up and compute reliability models using either EXCEL or a similar tool.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of energetic and explosive safety.
• Courses in probability, statistics, and basic reliability
• Experience in using probability and statistics in the analysis of test data.
• Experience with the following: MIL-STD-1629A (FMECA), MIL-STD-1543B (Product Reliability) MIL-STD-882 System Safety; MIL-STD-1472 Human Engineering; MIL-HDBK-454
• General Guideline for Electronic Equipment; OSHA Health Standard; MIL-STD-1808; MIL-STD-1901A; AMCOM Policy 385-17.
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-882 analyses.
• 1+ years using model-based approaches and tools with experience (i.e. CAMEO or Rhapsody)
• Experience using DOORS as a part of an integrated systems engineering process that includes system safety engineering.
• Experience with Requirements and Verification and Validation throughout the Systems Engineering Lifecycle.
• Knowledge of the SEBoK Risk Management Process.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.