Reliability Engineer/ Principal Reliability Engineer (FL)

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.

At Northrop Grumman, our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, and continuing to push the boundaries of possibilities across land, sea, air, space, and the cyber world. Our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives around the world and for generations to come. Our work preserves freedom, democracy and advances human discovery. Through the development of bold new ideas, exercising courage, and a pioneering spirit we join forces to invent the future and have a lot of fun along the way.

Every day we take pride in creating purposeful work allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals. We offer competitive pay, flexible work arrangements, great learning opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do. We have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career. Join our team today and enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start engaging with a team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges.

Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Reliability Engineer/ Principal Reliability Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in Melbourne, FL, operating on our 9/80 schedule meaning you will get every Friday off. This position has no opportunity for remote or Hybrid work.

The Engineer will be assigned work in the Product Support organization performing System Reliability & Maintainability (R&M) Engineering Analysis. Candidate will be responsible for establishing, monitoring, and verifying subsystem R&M performance requirements for all design changes and new development efforts to ensure that R&M program requirements are achieved. The primary responsibility of the position will be reliability, maintainability, and testability. 

Essential Functions:

• Perform R&M allocations and predictions.

• Develop Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)

• Perform Built in Test (BIT) testability analysis.

• Perform mission reliability analysis.

• Perform failure tracking within the Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)

• Develop and review plans maintainability demonstrations.

• Develop/review/approve Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), Reliability Growth Testing (RGT), and Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)

• Liaison with Integrated Product Teams (IPT) and suppliers for the R&M of assigned subsystems.

Basic Qualifications Reliability Engineer:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 2 years’ relevant experience; OR a Masters’ Degree with 0 years’ experience

• Must have experience in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering discipline.

• Must have the ability to obtain DOD Secret Security Clearance or higher.

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable time as determined by the company to meet business needs.

Basic Qualifications Principal Reliability Engineer:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5 years’ relevant experience; OR a Masters’ Degree with 3 years’ relevant experience; OR PhD with 0 Years ‘relevant experience.

• Must have experience in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering discipline.

• Must have the ability to obtain DOD Secret Security Clearance or higher.

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable time as determined by the company to meet business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering

• 5 years of experience in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering discipline

• Excellent oral and written communication & interpersonal skills

• Experience in the Aerospace and Defense industry

• Active, In scope DoD Secret clearance within the last 5 years with Special Program Access

Benefits:

In addition to a full benefits package with 401k match, PTO, etc. we offer flexible work arrangements, incredible learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, within a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.

Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) provide benefits for the member, our leaders and the company. Our ERGs offer opportunities to be a friend, be active, be a volunteer, be a leader, to be recognized and to be yourself. Every ERG is inclusive of all employees.

Salary Range: $66,600 USD - $99,800 USD

Salary Range 2: $82,000 USD - $123,000 USD

Employees may be eligible for 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 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.