Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security.  Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.  Come be a part of our mission!

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal or Senior Principal Logistics Engineer with the ability to obtain a security clearance to work with our Specialty Engineering Team out of Woodland Hills, CA. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation.  The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation. This is an exciting, challenging and specialized role for a talented, energized and innovative individual who wants to pursue growth in Integrated Logistics and Product Support Engineering.

This position is contingent on program award.

What You’ll get to Do:

• Support logistics engineering activities and assist as a technical resource from a program’s concept and proposal phases through development, test, production, and post-production support phases.

• Support logistics design influence efforts and activities necessary to meet system performance requirements.

• Analyze and interpret technical data (e.g., drawings, manuals, specifications, etc.) to develop technical and logistics data

• Create/update relevant reports such as task analysis, maintenance plans, or provisioning requirements reports.

• Perform/develop/update Level of Repair Analysis (LORA).

• Develop maintenance concepts to ensure the most affordable and effective mission readiness solution.

• Support activities that sustain the operation and maintenance of systems to ensure mission readiness.

• Be an engaged and versatile team member of the Integrated Logistics Support team seeking to continuously improve upon existing practices.

• Utilize engineering background and analytical skills and knowledge of a wide array of industry tools used to conduct Logistics analysis and provide status to the Integrated Product Team (IPT) on a regular basis.

Basic Qualifications Principal Logistics Systems Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of relevant experience in logistics or life cycle support environments; Master's degree plus 3 years of relevant experience in logistics or life cycle support environments; PhD. plus 1 year of relevant experience in logistics or life cycle support environments

• Experience in developing/generating various types of logistics supportability analysis in accordance with MIL-STD-1388, GEIA-STD-0007 or MIL-PRF-49506

• Demonstrated knowledge of Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) and Life Cycle Cost Analysis modeling.

• PC mastery with Microsoft Windows Office Products, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is required.

• Demonstrated excellent communication (verbal and written), presentation skills and ability to interface directly with internal program office and external customer.

• U.S. Citizenship is required

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret clearance is required.

• Ability to work full-time onsite at the Woodland Hills, CA facility

Basic Qualifications Senior Principal Logistics Systems Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 8 years of relevant experience in logistics or life cycle support environments; Master's degree plus 6 years of relevant experience in logistics or life cycle support environments; PhD. plus 4 year of relevant experience in logistics or life cycle support environments

• Experience in logistics or life cycle support environments

• Experience in developing/generating various types of logistics supportability analysis in accordance with MIL-STD-1388, GEIA-STD-0007 or MIL-PRF-49506

• Demonstrated knowledge of Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) and Life Cycle Cost Analysis modeling.

• Knowledge of Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) and Life Cycle Cost Analysis modeling.

• PC mastery with Microsoft Windows Office Products, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is required.

• Demonstrated excellent communication (verbal and written), presentation skills and ability to interface directly with internal program office and external customer.

• U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S Government Secret Security Clearance within a timeframe set forth by management.

• Ability to work full-time onsite at the Woodland Hills, CA facility

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university

• Experience in military maintenance and sustainment support

• Engineering design background generating new designs, models, and drawings

• Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives that drive change in an organization

• Experience supporting procurement activities to meet demanding build schedules

• Experience developing LSA products in accordance with MIL-STD-1388, GEIA-STD-0007 or MIL-PRF-49506 in LSA database tools such as EAGLE or SLICwave

• Experience with Packaging, Handling, Storage and Transportation

• Previous experience using LSA data to develop either technical data, technical publications, Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETMs), or training products

• Possess active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance.