Northrop Grumman Hiring For Staff Mechanical Engineer at San Diego County, CA Full Time

US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

**Description**

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our worlds biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our organization is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.

We are looking for you to join our team as a Staff Mechanical Engineer based out of San Diego, CA. As a Staff Mechanical Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

**What Youll get to Do:**

Responsible for the successful development and delivery of a hardware item or system within the constraints established by the Project Plan and the customers systems specification. Has ultimate responsibility for the delivery of technically compliant work products within the resource, cost and schedule constraints established in the projects Hardware Development Plan. Directs and statuses the work of engineering teams as well as that of support staff engaged in planning, project control, configuration management, and subcontract management activities. Shall be the focal point for customer interface and shall be the design review coordinator and presenter. Shall have authority, delegated by the Program Manager, to make decisions and to deliver high quality products using the organizations approved processes for the antenna, RF, digital, infrastructure, and test hardware products, including avionics modules, racks for airborne and ground mobile military applications. Perform mechanical design tasks and thermal/structural analyses. Support electrical-mechanical tradeoffs and physical verification and qualification testing for new designs. Mentor and lead junior engineers and interns.

**Qualifications:**

**Basic Qualifications:**

+ Bachelor of Science (BS) degree inMechanical/Aerospace Engineering or closely related STEM fieldwith a minimum of 14 years experience; OR 12 years experience with a Masters (MS) degree in STEM; OR 9 Years with PhD.
+ Shall have experience with electronics packaging design, including producibility constraints, solids modeling techniques, GD&T, corrosion control, EMI concerns, and thermal/structural analysis methods
+ Shall have effective verbal and written communication skills, the ability to manage a multi-disciplinary engineering team, and the demonstrated ability to manage a project throughout the engineering life cycle.
+ Shall be capable of developing a system in accordance with a system specification and developing the necessary hardware and software requirements specifications.
+ Shall have experience successfully leading a technical team to develop, qualify and deliver a specification compliant product or system within constraints of cost and schedule.
+ Shall have experience with Class 1 and 2 change control and management.
+ Shall have experience developing technical and cost proposals.
+ **CLEARANCE:** Ability to obtain DoD Secret clearance and SAP/SAR.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Experience with airborne and ground-mobile military electronics equipment.
+ Proficiency in the use of the SolidWorks, CATIA V5, NX, Patran/Nastran or Flotherm tools
+ Experience with aircraft integration and airborne environmental requirements analysis and verification, including qualification.
+ Functional or project management experience
+ Active DoD Secret Clearance

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Salary Range: $146,000.00 – $219,000.00

Employees may be eligible for 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 health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority** . The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/ .

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO . U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.

We are a pioneering company.

With careers across all areas: air, cyber, land, sea and space our 90,000 employees work as one to defend and define the future. Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will give you every opportunity to do your best work. Working together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines, we share a drive to push the boundaries of science, technology and engineering to meet the ever evolving needs of our customers worldwide.