Sds – Test Engineering Department Manager 3
| Company | Northrop Grumman |
|---|---|
| Location | Hill AFB, UT, USA, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, Huntsville, AL, USA |
| Salary | $146800 – $243500 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 8 years of relevant experience with a Bachelors Degree; 6 years with a Masters
- US Citizenship with an Active Secret Clearance or higher (awarded within the past 6 years) with the ability to receive a Special Access Program (SAP) certification.
- Minimum 3 years in a formal management position
- Minimum of 1 year experience leading a test team
Responsibilities
- Excellent communication, mentoring, interpersonal skills, and the ability to collaborate with senior management, peers, and employees.
- Provides ownership for the people, processes, training, and tools that support business areas and programs in achieving their missions.
- Accountability for recruiting, staffing and retaining talent to deliver on the objectives.
- Supporting proposal work, independent technical reviews, program standup and audits, and special assignments on an as needed basis.
- Owning and leading improvements across employee engagement, hiring, development, training, attraction, and retention of top talent.
- Mentor, develop, and train your section managers, and overall employee base.
- Reviews and analyzes released engineering change data and coordinates changes with engineering, quality, support, manufacturing, and engineering data control activities.
- Instill process excellence, communications, training, certifications and continuous improvement across the organization.
- Interpret, execute, and recommend modifications to organizational policies.
- Lead or Manage Special Projects.
- Act as an advisor to staff members to meet schedules or resolve technical or operational problems.
Preferred Qualifications
- US Citizenship with an Active Top-Secret Clearance or higher (awarded within the past 6 years) with the ability to receive a Special Access Program (SAP) certification.
- Master’s Degree with 9 years of experience in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) preferably an Engineering degree
- Proven performance as an Engineering Leader in all phases of acquisition, design, integration and execution.
- Ability to rapidly assess and lend guidance to projects assigned to the organizational group as well as demonstrated mentoring and guidance to engineers.
- Ability to bridge between theoretical concepts and practical implementation, performing associated trade analyses
- Ability to communicate technical analysis to a variety of stakeholders with different backgrounds and expertise
- Working knowledge and/ or experience across engineering disciplines
- Experience on ICBMs
- Experience creating or growing new sections or departments
- Experience managing test teams or organizations
- Familiarity with Agile engineering and JIRA
- SAP Access