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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: YesCLEARANCE TYPE: SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescriptionAt 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 seeking a Command Systems Test Engineering Manager 2.This position will be located in Roy, UT and will support the Sentinel program.

This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You Will Get To Do:

Develop customer contractual needs and requirements into test solutions that acknowledges technical schedule and cost constraints. Develop and direct preparation and execution of comprehensive test plans, procedures and schedules. Review and evaluate test requirements for completeness of test program. Coordinate with Subject Matter Experts, Element Test teams, System Test teams, and other stakeholders to identify test objectives, test requirements, and risks that require test to mitigate. Supporting development of instrumentation requirements for Hardware in the Loop testing. Identify test support requirements and coordinate with Design & Integration team for budget and personnel needs. Overseeing test activities in support or requirement verification and validation. Conduct daily briefing and approve test start for each test event. Approve Break of Configuration on the test floor. Conduct tabletop reviews and dry run test procedures with test team prior to execution. Coordinate and conduct Technical and Safety Review Boards, and Test Readiness Reviews. Support customer Test Plan Working Groups. Prepare Test Planning Team charters. Coordinate with Quality organization for test support. Review and approve major test amendments. Utilize excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management. Working well in a team environment, collaborate with multiple engineering teams to define test objectives and requirements for test activities in a hardware in the loop lab.

• Set a Vision: Develop and communicate a clear vision for shaping, growing, and enabling the Command Systems business unit to meet and exceed its obligations.

• Build a High Performing Team: Partner with Functional leadership to build, maintain, and implement mentoring, succession, and development plans. Develop and execute staffing plans that achieve financial and programmatic strategic goals.

• Take Ownership: Drive execution across a diverse, multidisciplinary team, meeting cost, schedule, and technical performance metrics. Communicate progress, challenges, and plans with clarity and conciseness.

• Lead with Courage: Instill a culture of empowerment and accountability that enables the team to efficiently meet or exceed obligations. Build strong partnering relationships with customers, industry partners, and internal organizations and proliferate this partnership across the Command Systems BU.

• Respond to Challenges with Resilience: Perform proactive risk and opportunity management. Leverage strong partnerships to navigate setbacks and implement recovery plans that maintain forward momentum.

• Act with Speed: Leverage leaders within the Command Systems BU. to make timely and credible decisions while performing advocacy across a broad stakeholder community to ensure buy-in and mitigate delays. Implement process improvements and strategic initiatives where necessary to maintain and increase execution velocity.

The CS Test Engineer Manager will report to the CS SEIT Test Planning and Execution Manager. This individual will be responsible for Command Systems System Integration Lab (CSIL) test planning and execution to include test requirements, test plan development, test execution of all assets and delivery to other elements. To succeed in this role, the ideal candidate must be a driver and leader for collaboration across many different sub-IPT teams for a successful integration test of the ground system hardware and software configuration. The candidate must also have familiarity with a lab environment.

In this position, the Test Engineering Manager will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

Technical Leadership

• Lead and manage a diverse group of test engineers across multiple scrum teams. This position leads technical performance in accordance with the Sentinel SOW, and provides functional management for a Section of test engineers.

• Design, develop, and implement testing methods and equipment.

• Ability to navigate requirements in DOORS. Model Based System Engineering with an understanding of DODAF and SysML.

• Compile data and define changes required in test equipment, test procedures, or new test requirements.

• Test planning, execution, reporting, and integration support.

• System integration, regression, and verification/validation testing.

• Collaborate with systems engineers, software engineers and lab users to ensure test requirements are met.

• Develop and release engineering documentation.

• Interface with software developers and systems engineers in support of verification.

• Prepare detailed test reports and support formal verification of the system.

• Product integration, regression, and verification testing including checkout in system test labs.

• Short and long term integration planning and execution of multiple concurrent baselines.

• Integrating subsystem functionality into system capabilities per design with an emphasis on system stability and performance

People Leadership:

• Provide technical oversight and mentorship to staff to ensure engineering projects in portfolio meet performance objectives

• Responsible for direct functional management of staff and providing direction to the staff

• Support organizational engineering initiatives

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

• 401k

• Educational Assistance

• Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions

• Paid Time Off

• Health & Wellness Resources

• Employee Discounts

This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

You'll Bring These Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree with 6 years of related experience.

• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance, current and within scope, with an ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need

• At least 3 years of experience in system integration and test planning, procedure development, execution, and test reporting

• Understanding of systems engineering principles and processes, requirements decomposition and allocation, design and analysis.

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• US Citizenship with an Active Top-Secret Clearance or higher (awarded within the past 6 years

• At least 1 year of experience leading a project and/or driving performance against schedule.

• Current Sentinel Program Access

• Experience leading a team or project; ability to lead and motivate others to meet complex objectives.

• Familiarity with Atlassian applications JIRA and Confluence

• Experience navigating specifications and requirements in DOORS

• Experience applying systems thinking and systems engineering best practices to engineering development programs.

• Previous experience standing up a lab environment/Hardware in the Loop test bed

• Knowledge and experience using CAMEO and/or Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Principles

• CAM/EVMS Experience

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Primary Level Salary Range: $126,600.00 - $189,800.00The 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.