Principal Operations Engineer (Harrogate, UK)

Strategic Space Systems Division (SSSD) is an industry-leading provider for launch systems capabilities serving national security, military, civil and commercial customers. We are built on a heritage of providing innovative, affordable and reliable aerospace and defense products that our customers rely on to achieve mission success. Join the Space revolution and make the impossible, possible.

Northrop Grumman, Strategic Space Systems Division, is seeking a Principal Operations Engineer looking to work as a member of an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) team member at a field site located in Harrogate, UK.

The Operations Engineering team is seeking an engineer who will be responsible for the following:

• Monitoring system and subsystem operation and performance and preparing periodic status reports

• Investigating and responding to all indications of anomalous system performance

• Assisting in the preparation and review of standard operations procedures and system redundancy management documentation

• Supporting system reconfiguration and mode changes

• Supporting special system operations of a non-routine nature

• Monitoring several real-time systems and implementing procedures required for control and status of these systems in response to anomalous behavior

• Monitoring equipment health and status to ensure the highest possible level of mission readiness

• Continuous core skill improvement training

• Follow-on advanced operator training

• Performing system performance improvement tasks involving scripting and standard operating procedure modifications

• An initial 2-year tour commitment is required

• The engineer will be expected to work a non-traditional workweek that will include occasional 12 hour shifts and weekends

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor of Science Degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline plus 5 years of technical/engineering experience OR Master of Science Degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline plus 3 years of technical/engineering experience

• Willingness to complete a two year overseas tour commitment

• Ability to obtain Top Secret/SCI or DoD Top Secret with an SSBI and counterintelligence polygraph examination

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience executing standard operating procedures to provide mission support during command and control of real-time operations systems

• Active DoD Top Secret Clearance / SCI Access with a counterintelligence (CI) polygraph examination

• Prior operations and/or systems engineering experience

• Experience working in a geographically diverse team and matrix organization

• Experience with Atlassian tool suite (e.g. Confluence, JIRA, etc.)

• Experience with Linux OS and scripting tools

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