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Electrical Engineering Manager 1 - Cable Design Group

Northrop Grumman

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$114,900 - $172,300
Unspecified
Engineering - Electrical
Chandler, AZ (On-Site/Office)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

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.

Electrical Engineering Manager 1 - Cables

Northrop Grumman Launch Systems business unit is currently seeking a motivated Electrical Engineering Manager to lead the cable design group in our Chandler, Arizona facility. The cable design group supports all Launch Systems programs with the design, governance, review, and release of flight and ground support electrical cable harnesses integrated into multiple programs including space launch, interceptors, targets, and strike vehicles. Our cable team members work in a diverse set of roles across the lifecycle of each program.

Job Duties:
  • Based on program and department objectives, work with program managers and lead electrical engineers to support the day-to-day activities of the cable engineering teams.
  • Act as a technical lead, technical contributor, or technical consultant on various projects.
  • Focus attention on the career development needs of the team members.
  • Support all aspects of cable design and may support vehicle design, integration, and test using a wide range of avionics electronic assembly products.


Job Responsibilities:
  • Understanding and application of company electrical engineering technical standards.
  • Strong technical expertise and working knowledge of other related disciplines.
  • Ensures standard processes, procedures and command media are followed, including Safety, 5S, Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Control, Electrostatic Discharge Control (ESD) control, Tool Control, among others.
  • Provides formal peer review of engineering designs or analyses.
  • Solicits process improvement ideas from the team and leads to drive those efforts to realization.
  • Working with program managers and engineering leads to ensuring the right people, processes, and tools are in place to meet the business needs.
  • Working with electrical engineering leads to help oversee the supervision of engineering activity and work products, workload management, and the performance management process.
  • Function as a key contributor, managing assigned responsibilities and directing the work of the leads and engineers to accomplish business goals.
  • Plan manpower requirements as well as conduct quarterly and annual performance reviews of staff.
  • Identify, manage and grow the critical skills development process for the engineering team.
  • Motivates team; actively, effectively participates and contributes in a positive manner.
  • Train and mentor early career engineers in Electrical Engineering and test standards.
  • Makes an extra effort to provide quality internal and external customer service.
  • Work with the engineering team to identify causes of problems and develop solutions.
  • Perform data analysis to identify trends in system performance or processes that may indicate poor performance or degradation and then suggest methods to intercept and mitigate the degradation.
  • Act with safety as your number one priority through every aspect of the role.


Desired Experience:
  • Experience as technical manager, lead, or similar leadership role with mentoring, team building, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
  • Design, test, and/or integration and deployment of cable designs for launch vehicles.
  • Release of engineering documentation including technical drawings, specifications, and test procedures.
  • Management or tracking of projects through a product life cycle.
  • Manufacturing support during the production of cable products.
  • Developing schedules, budgets, and requirements with minimal oversight.
  • Problem solving not only for technical issues, but also for schedule, cost, resource and other project challenges.
  • Mentoring and cross-training team members across a diverse set of technologies and equipment architectures used to meet customer requirements.
  • Circuit design and analysis.
  • Siemens Capital Teamcenter Product Lifecycle Management software.
  • Siemens Capital E-CAD Electrical Design software products.
  • Atlassian Jira for task tracking and project management.
  • Contributions to process improvement initiatives.
  • Experience with classified test systems or systems subject to cyber security policies.
  • Experience with MDA, Air Force, NASA, Navy, or other military customer requirements.


Basic Qualifications:
  • Requires 5 years with a bachelor's degree in engineering or 3 years with a master's degree in engineering.
  • Strong leadership, influence, and people management skills. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with an ability to effectively communicate to all levels of employees, management, and customers.
  • Experience managing people preferred.
  • Ability to obtain a DoD Active Secret Clearance is required.
  • U.S. Citizenship is required.


Primary Level Salary Range: $114,900.00 - $172,300.00

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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