Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman 's Space Systems - Propulsions Division is currently looking for a Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer to work in our Promontory, UT location with periodic assignments at our Bacchus (Magna), UT location.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Systems Engineers are responsible to work with the Chief Engineers and Program Leadership to support key program objectives through the development and management of architecture, requirements, verification planning and change integration for our solid rocket motor and booster motor systems.  Systems Engineers actively participate in the development of new systems and system upgrades by managing architecture, requirements, verification, and integrated change control processes in a disciplined, broad reaching process, to ensure our propulsion systems projects perform to specification, satisfy customer needs, and maintain configuration integrity throughout the lifecycle of each product.  Systems Engineering at Northrop Grumman Propulsion Systems are primarily model based and provide support to multiple defense and commercial contracts.

Within Propulsion Systems, systems engineering provides a gateway to many other leadership opportunities within Propulsion Systems.  Roles may include aspects of project engineering, proposal support, and liaison engineering roles which naturally build essential skills necessary for future leadership opportunities.

Job Duties:

The primary responsibility of the systems engineer in this position is to provide leadership in model-based digital capture of architecture and requirements while retrieving compliance data from various sources into the systems engineering model for a defense program.

• Coordinate with customers to understand intent and needs of the integrated system

• Evaluate and manage customer requirements and flow down in specifications and determine implementation approach

• Analyze the needs of the system and translate into verifiable performance and design requirements

• Determine and manage verification methodology and approach for each requirement as it applies to relevant subsystems

• Evaluate results of verification processes (inspection, analysis, test, and demonstration) and provide compliance evidence against system requirements to stakeholders

• Integrate customer directed changes into the system and facilitate implementation of changes within a change management system

• Coordinate and communicate with all stakeholders, including customers, all things related to requirements, implementation of requirements and verification, and resolution of problems and issues

• Develop model architecture for model-based integration of requirements, design, analysis, and verification

• Capture digital thread information to show top to bottom traceability of requirements/compliance information.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Understanding of requirements and basic principles of verification strategies

• Experience and familiarity with model-based systems engineering tools, specifically object oriented tools like NoMagic Cameo or similar

• Experience with architecture diagrams (structural diagrams for physical, functional, and logical relationships), behavior diagrams (activity, use case, etc.), and other MBSE diagrams useful to understand product needs

• Experience with interface management between system elements and teams

• Experience with concept of operations (ConOps) and product related strategy maps

• Experience with digital thread methodology

• Experience with manufacturing and quality control databases and processes

• Ability and skills to work multidisciplined engineering problems

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Excellent time management and organizational skills

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working in Systems Engineering or in Integration Design or a related field in propulsion, preferably in a government contractor environment

• Demonstrated experience in many aspects of aerospace design (or similar) development processes including design, analysis, testing and integration

• Exposure to and familiarity with MBSE approaches and tools (Cameo, Doors, etc.) and some exposure to MBSE languages (SysML or UML) are required

• Familiarity with Model Based Engineering and integration of descriptive and analytical models

• Familiarity with the general requirement sets and system architectural approach necessary for development of a spaceflight system

• General familiarity with structural, mechanical, thermal dynamics, fluid dynamics, electro-mechanical and propulsion technologies

Experience Preferred:

• Assembling plans and detailed schedules to accomplish an engineering effort

• Experience with product testing, preferably system level tests demonstrating interaction between subsystems or major elements

• Participation in developing formal interfaces between parts of a system

• Participation in proposal efforts

• Experience and understanding of the relationships between engineering designs and resulting manufactured products

• Experience directing or leading small teams

• Experience collaborating efforts across multiple teams

• Experience with digital thread methodology

• Experience in at least two different design and/or analysis engineering roles related to propulsion product development and sustainment

• Experience with manufacturing and quality control databases and processes

• Experience with risk management

• Formal education in Systems Engineering principles; a graduate certificate in Systems Engineering is highly preferred

Education/Certifications

• BS degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Physics or Engineering Management is required & 5 years of experience or 3 years with a MS

• Consideration will be given to candidates with a BS or MS degree in other engineering disciplines with strong relevant experience

• Position can be filled at a higher level, 9 years with a BS or 7 years with MS

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