
Manager Structural Engineering 2 - 19109
Required skills
- Secret Clearance
- DoD Secret Clearance
- STEM degree
- structural analysis
- Abaqus
- Ansys
- Nastran
- NASA STD 5020
- Finite Element Analysis
- Bolted Joint Analyses
Nice to have
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- technical leadership
- management role
- strategic missile programs
- tactical missile programs
Role summary
Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Design Engineering Analysis Section Manager 2 for the Sentinel program in Roy, UT. This role involves leading a team of structural analysis engineers, focusing 80% on structural analysis engineering discipline and 20% on managerial tasks like recruiting, staffing, performance reviews, and team meetings. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 8 years of experience or a Master's degree with 6 years of experience, demonstrated excellence in structural analysis, and familiarity with tools like Abaqus, Ansys, or Nastran. A Secret Clearance is required.
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 Design Engineering Analysis Section Manager 2. This position is located in Roy, UT and supports the Sentinel program.
This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.
What You’ll Get To Do:
The manager will lead a growing team of structural analysis engineers and will be responsible for leading all managerial tasks relevant to structural analysis. The manager will work 80% of their time in the structural analysis engineering discipline, as directed by the Sentinel Program AVE IPT Lead. The manager will be responsible for establishing, maintaining, and facilitating communications, tasking, scheduling, and technical reviews with each individual contributor’s execution lead in Roy, UT. Functional home room support, approximately 20% of the manager’s time will be focused on recruiting, staffing, retaining talent, weekly team meetings, bi-weekly 1:1 meetings, and holding performance review discussions. Supporting relevant Northrop Grumman Defense Systems Community of Practice is expected.
Position Benefits:
As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
- 401k
- Educational Assistance
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
- Paid Time Off
- Health & Wellness Resources
- Employee Discounts
This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.
You’ll Bring These Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) discipline and 8 years of experience; or Master's degree with 6 years of experience.
- Demonstrated excellence in the field of structural analysis.
- Experience in writing and presenting technical content.
- In depth familiarity with Abaqus, Ansys or Nastran• Must be a US Citizen and be able to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance.
- Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
- 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 in Finite Element Analysis with Nastran (or equivalent).
- Experience in performing Bolted Joint Analyses per NASA STD 5020.
- Experience running static and dynamic structural problems using analytical methods (hand calculations, in-house tools, and 3rd party commercial analytical tools) .
- Experience in the thermal analysis of aerospace systems.
- Basic knowledge of Heat Transfer methods and principles.
- Proficient in programming and use of MATLAB (or equivalent) for analysis and data manipulation
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
- Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering or equivalent from an accredited college/university.
- Experience in a technical leadership/management role.
- Experience working strategic or tactical missile programs or spacecraft.
- Experience with Thermal Desktop.
- DoD Top Secret Clearance - Proficiency with ABAQUS, FEMAP, and ANSYS.
- Exposure to structural test applications- Experience with seismic analysis (ASCE 7).
- Exposure to missiles program requirements & with propulsion.
- Navigate through NX 3D models and CPLM.
- TeamCenter CPLM experience.
- Existing Special Access Program (SAP) approval.
- Strong experience leading teams and training others.
- Experience with individual contributor performance assessments.
Sample Northrop Grumman interview questions
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What is your understanding of polymorphism in SystemVerilog?
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