Safety Reliability & Launch Integration Engineering Manager 3 - Space Systems

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. This position is for a Senior Manager of Systems Engineering within the Systems Engineering (SE) Directorate. The selected candidate will be based in Dulles or Gilbert and will lead an SE department, including management of front-line managers, that supports the launch systems integration, reliability and system safety efforts for NGSP Tactical Space Systems Division. The Senior Manager receives general strategic, business, and administrative direction from the Director of Systems Engineering Services and has authority to make engineering decisions and recommendations that have an impact on new business, program performance, design, development, and mission operations. In addition to performing Functional Manager duties, the selected candidate is expected to be mostly self-directed and leverage previous experience to effectively lead a department responsible for launch vehicle integration, reliability and system safety efforts across programs in all TSSD business units. The prospective candidate should have extensive experience in at least launch vehicle integration/operations, reliability engineering or system safety, and have some familiarity with all three, as duties will leading activities in all three areas and performing activities in at least one. The candidate should also have experience across the full program lifecycle. The position includes both functional/personnel leadership duties and direct work in support of programs with an anticipated equal time split.