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 peoples 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 nations 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, theyre making history.

The Defense Systems (DS) has an opening for a Principal Hardware Mechanical Engineer.  This position is a required on-site position, located at our Defense Systems location in Colorado Springs, Colorado or Roy, UT.

This position will join the Sentinel Programs Command and Control (C2) Hardware Engineering team. This position will support a team of Hardware, Electrical, and Mechanical responsible engineers in the design of a diverse set of custom and commercial-off-the-shelf systems and components.

Responsibilities will include a mix of the following dependent on priorities and skillset:
- Incorporates edits and redlines to existing designs
- Facilitates ingest of supplier drawings into the Sentinel program tool set and workflow.
- Develops basic data and makes preliminary layouts, sketches, and notes necessary to present design proposal.  
- Investigates pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replaceability, strength-weight efficiency, and contractual specification requirements and cost. Coordinates with other organizations affected by design development.
- Makes layouts of complex assemblies and details parts of devices, mechanisms, and structures. Checks completed layouts and drawings for clarity, completeness, conformity to standards, procedures, specifications, and accuracy of calculations and dimensioning.
- Identifies design errors, omissions, and other deficiencies, and recommends revisions and/or improvements in design layout to responsible engineers or designers.

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and with 5 years of experience; or Masters degree with 3 years of experience; PhD with 1 years of experience
• Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance with an investigation date within the last 6 years
• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP)
• Experience performing CAD modeling with design tools such as Siemens NX or similar
• Experience with CPLM Teamcenter or similar
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite of tools - Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Word 
• Experience working with COTS hardware and suppliers
• Ability to understand and interpret requirements

Preferred Qualification: 
• Must be able to work independently, function in a dynamic environment, and be flexible to changing direction
•Excellent interpersonal, written communication, and presentation skills, including the ability to clearly and succinctly communicate complex concepts
•Exposure to missiles program requirements & with propulsion
Proficient with 3D design/2D drawing CAD in NX 
• Proficient with PDM and/or CPLM
• Proficient with GD&T and ASME Y14.5-2009 
 

Primary Level Salary Range: $86,600.00 - $136,800.00

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 candidates experience, education, skills and current spanet 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.