About This Role
This Systems Engineering Technician and Engineering Aide role supports the Systems Engineering team by helping with technical meetings and design reviews, managing comments and action items, and collecting and organizing supporting documentation. This position is essential for ensuring that technical decisions, review outcomes, and associated artifacts are accurately captured, controlled, and readily available to the program team.
Responsibilities
- Assist in planning and coordinating technical meetings and design reviews, including schedule tracking and logistics
- Attend technical reviews and working sessions to capture key discussion points, decisions, and follow-up actions
- Work with technical leads and systems engineers to ensure review agendas, entry/exit criteria documentation, and supporting materials are prepared and distributed
- Maintain structured logs of review comments, questions, risks, and action items generated during meetings and design reviews
- Track action-item status, owners, due dates, and closure evidence, and provide regular status updates to the engineering team
- Ensure comment and action-item databases remain current, accurate, and traceable to specific reviews and documents
- Collect, organize, and maintain design review artifacts and supporting documentation (e.g., presentations, reports, ICDs, requirements documents)
- Ensure documents are stored in the appropriate configuration-controlled repositories and follow program-defined naming and versioning conventions
- Assist in preparing review packages and documentation sets for internal and external stakeholders
- Interface with Systems Engineering, Hardware, Software, Integration & Test, and Program Management to obtain and distribute technical review materials
- Support the coordination of review Readiness and Close-Out by ensuring required documentation and action-item statuses are complete
- Help standardize templates and processes for comment capture, action tracking, and review documentation where appropriate
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Ability to obtain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance
- High school diploma or equivalent and 2 years additional education and/or related experience
- Experience working in an engineering, technical, or project-support environment
- Demonstrated ability to take detailed meeting notes and accurately capture technical comments and action items
- Proficiency with common office productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and basic familiarity with shared repositories (SharePoint, Confluence, or similar)
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks
- Clear written and verbal communication skills; comfortable interacting with engineers and managers in structured technical settings
Nice to have:
- Experience supporting technical design reviews (e.g., PDR, CDR) or engineering change boards
- Familiarity with configuration-management practices and document-control processes
- Experience with action-item tracking tools, issue-tracking systems, or requirements-management tools (e.g., IBM DOORS, JIRA, or similar)
- Prior experience in aerospace, defense, or other complex engineering environments
- Willingness to work on fast-paced development programs
- Ability to travel, if required, to support off-site reviews or technical meetings
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus may be available depending on the position
- Annual bonuses designed to reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results
- Long Term Incentives may be available for employees in Vice President or Director positions
Important Details
- Relocation assistance may be available
- Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
- Application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date, but may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates
About the Company
Northrop Grumman employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Their pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled them to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in the nation's history, from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking individuals with bold new ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit to invent the future and have fun along the way. Their culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, and bringing one's whole self to work, with an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Employees are not only part of history; they are making history.
