
Principal / Sr Principal Engineer Mechanical
Required skills
- Secret security clearance
- SAP approval
- ASME standards
- Siemens NX
- PLM
- CAD modeling
- technical support
- minimal direction
- team environments
Nice to have
- hardware-level requirements
- interface requirements
- compliance requirements
- performance requirements
- control drawings
- system assemblies
Role summary
Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Principal Mechanical Engineer / Sr. Principal Mechanical Engineer in Roy, UT, to design hardware systems and components for the Sentinel Program's Command Systems team. Responsibilities include applying ASME standards, designing integrated assemblies, performing CAD modeling with tools like Siemens NX, and supporting design reviews. The role requires an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance and the ability to obtain SAP approval. Experience with PLM software and technical support is also required. Preferred qualifications include experience with requirements derivation, control drawings, structural analysis, and design reviews.
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 Defense Systems is seeking a Principal Mechanical Engineer / Sr. Principal Mechanical Engineer to be located in Roy, UT. This position is contingent upon contract award.
What You'll Get to Do:
The selected candidate will join a team of Mechanical, Electrical and Hardware Integration engineers to design hardware systems and components, and support the Sentinel Program's Command Systems team.
- Apply ASME standard processes and procedures to identify, design, and procure electrical and mechanical hardware.
- Support design of integrated assemblies in accordance with decomposed requirements, compliance documents, and architecture diagrams in order to support the Sentinel critical design review campaign.
- Assist in trade studies, Analysis of Alternatives, and create design artifacts to include 3-dimensional models and product definition packages which will be documented and released using Siemens- based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and modeling (NX) tools.
- Operate in and capture inputs from a multi-disciplinary engineering environment consisting of Systems, Software, Design, Compliance, and Hardware engineers.
You Will Bring These Qualifications:
Principal Mechanical Engineer: 5 Years with Bachelors in Science; 3 Years with Masters; 1 Years with PhD
Sr. Principal Mechanical Engineer: 8 Years with Bachelors in Science; 6 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD
Both levels require the following:
- Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope.
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need.
- Experience performing CAD modeling with design tools such as Siemens NX or similar
- Working knowledge of Microsoft (MS) Word, Excel, Power Point, and Engineering Scheduling tools and applications.
- Experience resolving issues and providing technical support
- Capable of working with minimal direction and in team environments.
These Qualifications Would Be Nice to Have:
- Experience deriving hardware-level requirements from interface, compliance, and performance requirements
- Experience designing and generating control drawings and assemblies of systems using commercially-sourced hardware components
- Experience developing hardware design materials in support of program design reviews for review with team technical leads and program stakeholders
- Experience conducting design reviews as the design author and briefing solution designs to program leadership and stakeholders for release into product baseline
- Understanding of structural analysis concerns as applied to designing mechanical systems
- TeamCenter CPLM experience
Sample Northrop Grumman interview questions
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