🚀 Test & Evaluation IPT Lead Aeronautical Engineer - R10211832

Test & Evaluation IPT Lead Aeronautical Engineer - R

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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.

Responsibilities

The position is responsible for leading a large, regionally dispersed team of testers in the execution of unmanned systems test & evaluation across production, sustainment, and developmental contractual statements of work (SOW). This includes advising management and providing engineering guidance to test and operational efforts to ensure schedule and performance targets are achievable, assess and assign talent to specific test events, develop and review training curriculum to advance our workforce capacity, and be generally responsible for the technical outcomes for T&E programs across SOWs in Rancho Bernardo, CA System Integration Labs; Palmdale, CA Production Test; NAS Patuxent River, MD Developmental Flight Test. It involves coordinating with cross‑IPT technical experts in support of Field Service Representative training and deployment across various international and domestic locations.

The selected candidate will participate in, oversee, and transition capabilities through formal lab test, ground and flight test, and into operations, organizing personnel, test planning, equipment, processes, scheduling, tools, aircraft and control segment modifications, laboratories, and proposal activities. The role requires interfacing with Field Service Representatives across time zones and communicating timely guidance to those on domestic and international assignments in support of United States Navy maritime operations.

Domestic and international travel up to 35% of the time will be required. The position is not a candidate for remote or hybrid work.

Basic Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor's degree of science in a STEM discipline and 14 years of related professional/military experience OR a Master's degree of science in a STEM discipline and 12 years of related professional/military experience OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 10 years of related professional/military experience.
• Must have flight, ground, and SIL T&E experience as an individual contributor or manager of technical scope.
• Must have experience generating technical documents and working with various software and data processing tools such as MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint, and other programming languages.
• Must have experience developing and executing test plans in lab or flight test environments.
• Must understand common test engineering methodologies and practices.
• Must have an Active DoD Secret clearance with full investigation within the last 6 years and the ability to obtain and maintain a Top‑Secret/SCI clearance within a reasonable amount of time to meet business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Top Secret Security Clearance.
• Experience in Unmanned Systems Test & Evaluation.
• Master’s Degree in Technical Field (STEM).
• Experience in weapon systems production operations or retrofit / modifications, maintenance, and acceptance testing.
• Experience participating in or managing International and/or Domestic Assignments.

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 U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.