About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: NoCLEARANCE TYPE: SecretTRAVEL: 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.
Northrop Grumman Space Systems has an opening for a Manager Aeronautical Engineering 1 – Structural Test Bay (Tactical Manager) in our Mechanical & Energetics Engineering team within Launch Systems at our Chandler, AZ facility.
The Tactical Manager will support our Structural Test Bay responsible for technical oversight, guidance, and training of a team of 10+ highly qualified aerospace engineers and technicians. The team will be working towards technology maturation and testing of key structures, support equipment, components, and functional subsystems. These support vehicle design, and integration as well as Northrop Grumman’s goal of becoming a missile prime.
The Tactical Manager will be responsible for managing technical, schedule, cost, as well as resources allocated to each test. This includes identifying and addressing program risks to ensure project success, facilitating technical solutions based on heritage and similar tests, tracking the testing schedule, metrics reporting and interfacing with internal and external customers. The Structural Test group supports all programs at LED and has an average throughput of 270 tests annually. The Tactical Manager will be responsible for balancing multiple program’s needs into a sin…
