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About this Reliability Engineer Level 3/4 role at Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman · Onsite · United States-California-Northridge
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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 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.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is looking for a Reliability Engineer with the ability to obtain a security clearance to work with our talented Advanced Weapons team located in Northridge, CA.

The ideal candidate will have experience in reliability, maintainability and testability engineering processes and standards to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. They will be supporting our programs for defining and architecting a secured missile weapon system. The qualified applicant will become part of Northrop Grumman's Reliability Engineering team within Specialty Engineering.This position will require close collaboration with team members of other projects within the organization for security architecture designs as well as external partners and customers.

This position requires the selected candidate to work on-site in Northridge, CA. Telework is not available for this position.  Relocation assistance, although not guaranteed, may be available.

What You’ll Get to Do:

  • Perform reliability and maintainability allocations and predictions for missile systems.
  • Develop/Analyze Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Built-In Test (BIT) and Testability analyses.
  • Develop mission success/reliability analyses.
  • Support Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS).
  • Perform Failure Analysis and Risk Assessment.
  • Support Built-In Test (BIT) Design Verification Testing to evaluate BIT effectiveness.
  • Support Maintainability and Testability Demonstrations.
  • Support Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and Reliability Growth Testing (RGT).
  • Utilize knowledge of documents such as MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-2155, ANSI/VITA 51.1 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2), IEEE 1633 to perform engineering analyses and make recommendations to design teams.
  • Develop trustworthy customer relationships via excellent communication, technical insight and successful execution of programs.
  • Collaborate with Integrated Product Teams (IPT), program management, customers, and suppliers for the reliability, maintainability and testability (RMT) aspects of assigned systems.
  • Support identifying, planning and quoting the RMT tasks for proposals. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications (T03):

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related STEM discipline with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or MS with 3 years of relevant experience.
  • Demonstrated experience in Reliability, Maintainability and Testability disciplines.
  • Familiarity with electronic circuit schematics and component failure modes/mechanisms.
  • Familiarity with software reliability in accordance with IEEE 1633.
  • Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills to be able to interact with team members, peers and leadership within NGDS and the customer community.
  • U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain a Secret DoD Security Clearance within a time frame set forth by management to support program needs.

Basic Qualifications (T04):

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related STEM discipline with a minimum of 9 years of relevant experience or MS with 7 years of relevant experience.
  • Demonstrated experience in Reliability, Maintainability and Testability disciplines.
  • Familiarity with electronic circuit schematics and component failure modes/mechanisms.
  • Experience with software reliability in accordance with IEEE 1633.
  • Demonstrated experience in Reliability and Maintainability disciplines.
  • Ability to read circuit schematics and mechanical drawings and understand component failure modes/mechanisms.
  • Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills to be able to interact with team members, peers and leadership within NGDS and the customer community.
  • U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain a Secret DoD Security Clearance within a time frame set forth by management to support program needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • BS or higher degree in Electrical Engineering.
  • Experience with hands-on RMT analysis and modeling skills for electronic and non-electronic systems, including experience with reliability analysis software and modeling tools (i.e. PTC Windchill Quality Solutions).
  • Knowledge of reliability techniques including Weibull analysis, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Monte Carlo Simulation and others.
  • Experience developing a Piece-Part FMEA/FMECA.
  • Experience with Reliability analysis software and modeling tools.
  • Demonstrated experience with missile systems.
  • Possess active Secret DoD Security Clearance.

Primary Level Salary Range: $100,300.00 - $150,500.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $124,900.00 - $187,300.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
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About Northrop Grumman

We are a pioneering company. With careers across all areas: air, cyber, land, sea and space – our 90,000 employees work as one to defend and define the future. Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will give you every opportunity to do your best work. Working together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines, we share a drive to push the boundaries of science, technology and engineering to meet the ever evolving needs of our customers worldwide.

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