Principal / Sr. Principal F - 35 Air Vehicle Field Support Engineer

Principal Or Sr. Principal F-35 Field Engineer

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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal or Sr. Principal Field Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our F-35 Sustainment Operating Unit. The selected candidate will be assigned as an F-35 Air Vehicle Field Support Engineer (FSE) at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina.

The successful candidate will act as the Northrop Grumman technical interface and on-site company representative to the customer in resolving issues arising from operations, maintenance, modifications and other logistics and engineering support activities involving the F-35 aircraft. Candidate must be willing to accompany our customer on CONUS and OCONUS Deployment Assignments of varying duration.

The candidate will serve as an integrated team member and will act as a Mission Systems and Vehicle Systems Subject Matter Expert (SME) or an emerging authority who has the skill-set to accomplish troubleshooting and analysis of F-35 Vehicle and Mission Systems anomalies.

Conducts technical analysis of product implementations, modifications and enhancements to product in accordance with specific customer specifications and implementations. Troubleshoots technical problems and issues, determines technical solution in accordance with product and customer specifications, and recommends actions to company or customer representatives for coordinative product solution. Assesses product needs in accordance with customer specifications. Conducts technical training and product briefing with customers, vendors, and company representatives. Acts as local on-site representative to customers organization.

Your duties and responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Being a self-starter, work without direct supervision.
• Integrate into a high tempo military operational environment.
• Provide recommended engineering and aircraft maintenance guidance to military and civilian maintainers and depot technicians and engineers with confidence and authority.
• Read and interpret engineering drawings, fault isolation and technical data and other available engineering data as well as analyze aircraft subsystem maintenance issues.
• Operate and maintain test equipment to gather and provide advanced aircraft health reporting codes to engineering IPTs for advanced troubleshooting.
• Conduct technical analysis of product implementations and modifications in accordance with customer specifications, technical data and other requirements.
• Document maintenance activities, collate data to identify emerging failure trends and provide recommendations to reduce equipment down time, improve maintenance practices and advise on maintenance tasks.
• Identify technical issues and recommend solutions to support the F-35 engineering disposition process and technical data updates.
• Manage, track multiple engineering and logistic support activities, and provide periodic status to customers and program management team.
• Provide authorized engineering products to supplement published engineering technical data.
• Combine engineering knowledge with real world aircraft maintenance experience.
• Conduct training and provide product briefings to customers, vendors, and company representatives.
• Author recommended technical data updates and/or assist customer with recommendations.
• Support program technical interchange meetings and program plans development relating to problem analysis, engineering dispositions and in-house technical support.
• Have good interpersonal and communication skills and engage with military aircrew and aircraft maintainers on a regular basis to resolve maintenance issues that would otherwise lead to equipment downtime.
• Work any shift, weekends, overtime, and holidays, if necessary, as well as travel on Temporary Duty or Deployment Assignments in support of F-35 program requirements.
• Complete customer required training, examinations, and immunizations prerequisites in support of such deployments.

Basic Qualifications:

• Principal: Must have a HS Diploma or GED and 9 years of aircraft maintenance experience. Will consider a bachelor's degree and 5 years of related military aircraft maintenance; or, master's degree with 3 years of related military aircraft maintenance, or a PHD.
• Sr. Principal: Must have a HS Diploma or GED and 12 years of aircraft maintenance experience. Will consider a bachelor's degree and 6 years of related military aircraft maintenance; or, master's degree with 3 years of related military aircraft maintenance, or 4 years with a PHD.
• 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) clearance within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.

F-35 or F-22 aircraft experience including cockpit operations.

Fighter aircraft troubleshooting, maintenance, and operations experience.

Experience with Microsoft Office tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3-7 years of F-35 aircraft experience.
• Master's Degree in STEM field.
• Current F-35 Program Access.
• Prior Field Support or military experience.
• Experience with operation and troubleshooting of fifth generation aircraft avionics (DAS, EW, GPS, INS, and CNI).
• Experience with operation and troubleshooting of fifth generation aircraft Vehicle Systems (FCS, PTMS, EPS, and Utilities and Subsystems).
• Working knowledge of engineering tools such as CATIA, VAS, VA, PDM and JEDI.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office tools.