Sentinel - Sr Principal Infrastructure Lead Engineer - Electrical - 13685

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking an Electrical Lead Engineer with the background, vision, and people skills to serve as a senior technical leader in the Command & Launch (C&L) Infrastructure (INF) Integrated Product Team (IPT). This position will be located in Roy, UT and will support the Sentinel program. 

This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You'll Get To Do:

The Electrical Lead Engineer reports to the Director of Infrastructure and is responsible for ensuring robust, timely, and well-coordinated technical products within the Infrastructure scope of work; identifying, actioning, and measuring technical process improvements and optimization; and working with other technical leaders across the Sentinel program to represent Infrastructure work products and dependencies.   

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

Technical Excellence: 

• Review INF work products via peer reviews, Design Reviews, and various board meetings to ensure adherence to the Sentinel technical baseline and associated requirements and processes. 

• Balancing stringent quality standards for technical artifacts (e.g. Technical Data Packages, Product Data Packages) with the rapid pace of procurement, fabrication, and construction of test assets and early prototypes.    

• Presenting sufficient information to Program Management to make informed decisions between conflicting technical approaches based upon program and IPT-level cost, schedule, and technical impacts and risk.   

• In coordination with the Office of the Chief Engineer, championing process improvements that allow the systems engineering, design engineering, and analysis teams to define and board high quality products in a cost and time efficient manner. 

Cross-Element Coordination: 

• Working closely with technical leadership and contributors across the program to identify impacts on INF work scope resulting from external changes or impacts on external stakeholders resulting from INF artifacts. 

• Developing joint solutions to cross-segment or cross-element technical challenges, balancing impacts, risks, and opportunities to identify the best overall options for the Sentinel program.  

Communication: 

• Decomposing direction from INF leadership and Office of the Chief Engineer to technical teams performing work and ensuring understanding and adherence to that direction. 

• Negotiating competing priorities and interests across a wide range of internal and external stakeholder communities to pursue the best course of action for the Sentinel program. 

• Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with a wide range of distinct internal organizations, customer communities, subcontractors, and industry partners.   

• Providing regular briefings, reports, and other communications to executive leadership. 

May be required to travel up to 25% of the time. 

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.   

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) with 8 years of experience; or Master's degree with 6 years of experience; or PhD with 4 years of experience

• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain a U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance

• 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

• At least 4 year of experience leading Electrical design efforts on MILCON, major infrastructure/building projects, or Aerospace and Defense programs.

• Relevant experience must include experience with electrical and power systems design, knowledge of cable design/qualification processes, controls systems and/or engine/generator sets. 

• Experience in power system studies including load flow, short circuit, arc flash, and relay coordination

• Knowledge of industry codes and standards, including the National Electric Code (NEC), National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), International Building Code (IBC) and/or Unified Facilities Criteria. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in STEM preferably an Engineering degree

• An active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an active Special Access Program (SAP)

• Familiarity with TEMPEST and EMI requirements and design implementations 

• Experience with ETAP Electrical Power and EasyPower System Analysis software 

• Experience in NX for cable assembly routing or general mechanical design

• Proven performance as an Engineering Leader in all phases of acquisition, design, integration, and execution.

• Strong understanding and broad application of engineering systems (engineering standards, configuration management, material review board, process control, tooling, facilities, software, etc.) 

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated experience with high value customer presentations, with ability to focus on multiple projects with competing priorities 

• Demonstrated experience in making sound decisions in uncertain and difficult situations 

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA 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.