Principal / Sr. Principal Reliability Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

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 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 Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security.  Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team 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.  Come be a part of our mission!

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Reliability Engineer with the ability to obtain a security clearance to work with our Specialty Engineering Team out of Woodland Hills, CA. 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. This is an exciting, challenging and specialized role for a talented, energized and innovative individual who wants to pursue growth in Reliability Engineering.

What You’ll Get to Do:

• Perform reliability and maintainability allocations and predictions for avionics and navigation systems.
• Develop/Analyze Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Built-In Test (BIT) and Testability analyses.
• Develop/Analyze Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
• Support Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS).
• Perform Failure Analysis and Risk Assessment.
• Support BIT Design Verification Testing to evaluate BIT effectiveness.
• Support Maintainability and Testability Demonstrations.
• Support Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and Reliability Growth Testing (RGT).
• Utilize knowledge of documents such as MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-2155 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2).
• Develop trustworthy customer relationships via excellent communication, technical insight and successful execution of programs.
• Collaborate with Integrated Product Teams (IPT), program management, customers, and suppliers for the reliability, maintainability and testability (RMT) aspects of assigned systems.
• Support identifying, planning and quoting the RMT tasks for proposals.

This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below

This requisition may be filled at either a Principal Level or a Sr. Principal Level. 

Basic Qualifications for a Principal Reliability Engineer:

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related STEM discipline with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or MS with 3 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience in Reliability and Maintainability disciplines, such as familiarity with MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-2155 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2).
• Familiarity with electronic circuit schematics and component failure modes/mechanisms.
• Demonstrated clear and effective verbal and written communication skills to be able to interact with team members, peers and leadership within NGDS and the customer community.
• Experience with process improvement.
• U.S. citizenship
• The ability to obtain/maintain a DoD Secret Security Clearance within a timeframe acceptable to management
• Ability to work full-time onsite at the Woodland Hills, CA facility

Basic Qualifications for a Sr Principal Reliability Engineer:

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related STEM discipline with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, or MS with 6 years of relevant experience, or PhD with 4 years relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience in Reliability and Maintainability disciplines, such as familiarity with MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-2155 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2).
• Familiarity with electronic circuit schematics and component failure modes/mechanisms.
• Demonstrated clear and effective verbal and written communication skills to be able to interact with team members, peers and leadership within NGDS and the customer community.
• Experience with process improvement.
• U.S. citizenship
• The ability to obtain/maintain a DoD Secret Security Clearance within a timeframe acceptable to management
• Ability to work full-time onsite at the Woodland Hills, CA facility

Preferred Qualifications:

• Electrical Engineering Degree.
• Experience with hands-on RMT analysis and modeling skills for electronic and non-electronic systems
• Experience calculating critical reliability metrics such as Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time Between Unscheduled Removal (MTBUR).
• Experience performing Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis with Testability Analysis
• Knowledge of reliability techniques including Weibull analysis, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Monte Carlo Simulation and others.
• Experience with Reliability analysis software and modeling tools.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees, management and customers .
• Experience in the military, government, commercial aerospace industry (e.g. aviation/equipment maintenance, aircraft operations, or commercial industrial technology companies)
• Knowledge of Reliability Maintainability and Testability disciplines.
• Ability to read circuit schematics and mechanical drawings.
• Innovative mindset with focus on process improvement.
• Possess Active Secret DoD Security Clearance.

Primary Level Salary Range: $103,600.00 - $155,400.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $129,300.00 - $193,900.00

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 candidate's experience, education, skills and current market 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.