Electrical Engineer Infrastructure Lead

About This Role

This Staff Electrical Engineer Infrastructure Lead position is a senior technical leadership role within the Launch Systems (LS) Infrastructure (INF) team, supporting the Sentinel program. The role involves ensuring robust and timely technical products, identifying process improvements, and coordinating with other technical leaders across the program. It suits an engineer with strong technical background, vision, and people skills.

Responsibilities

• Review INF work products via peer reviews, Design Reviews, and various board meetings to ensure adherence to the Sentinel technical baseline and associated requirements and processes
• Balance stringent quality standards for technical artifacts (e.g., Technical Data Packages, Product Data Packages) with the rapid pace of procurement, fabrication, and construction of test assets and early prototypes
• Present sufficient information to Program Management to make informed decisions between conflicting technical approaches based upon program and IPT-level cost, schedule, and technical impacts and coordination with the Office of the Chief Engineer
• Champion process improvements that allow the systems engineering, design engineering, and analysis teams to define and board high quality products in a cost and time efficient manner
• Work closely with technical leadership and contributors across the program to identify impacts on INF work scope resulting from external changes or impacts on external stakeholders resulting from INF artifacts
• Develop joint solutions to cross-segment or cross-element technical challenges, balancing impacts, risks, and opportunities to identify the best overall options for the Sentinel program
• Decompose direction from INF leadership and Office of the Chief Engineer to technical teams performing work and ensuring understanding and adherence to that direction
• Negotiate competing priorities and interests across a wide range of internal and external stakeholder communities to pursue the best course of action for the Sentinel program
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with a wide range of distinct internal organizations, customer communities, subcontractors, and industry partners
• Provide regular briefings, reports, and other communications to executive leadership

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science

Important Details

• Travel: Yes, 25% of the time

About the Company

Northrop Grumman provides revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world. The company has been at the forefront of many technological advancements in the nation's history, from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean to stealth bombers and landing on the moon. Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is part of this pioneering and inventive spirit.