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Northrop Grumman Chandler is looking for a Lead Electrical Engineer to support the Space Based Interceptor (SBI) Program Team. Job duties include leading a growing team of electrical engineers working vehicle level scope, preparing and presenting electrical engineering materials for Requirements and Design Reviews, ensuring vehicle and component compliance to internal design standards, military standards, and customer requirements, evaluating completed design with more senior engineers and other technical groups to satisfy design requirements, performing cost account management using earned value methods, applying electrical engineering principles to adapt or improve upon heritage designs or introduce new concepts to meet mission requirements, overseeing and reviewing system architecture, block diagrams, avionics specifications, qualification testing, and test data review of completed designs, based on specific objectives, leading analysis, design, testing and documentation of complex designs, coordinating and conducting the test programs required to evaluate the design, components, and systems, and providing formal peer review of simple engineering designs or analyses for less experienced engineers.
Job knowledge/technical skills include a broad understanding and application of company, industrial and military technical standards, broad technical expertise and working knowledge of other related disciplines, preparing and presenting electrical engineering materials for Requirements and Design Reviews, with minimal guidance, studying basic design concepts and criteria for more complex problems. Liaison includes actively and effectively participating and contributing in a positive manner, supporting team decisions and goals, making an extra effort to provide quality internal and external customer service, constantly seeking new sources of information and providing information necessary to meet customer needs, and disciplined with escalation when required.
Basic qualifications level III include a BS in engineering and 5 years experience, or 3 years experience with a master's in engineering. Electrical engineering preferred. U.S. citizenship is required. Current and active DoD secret security clearance at time of application. Documented experience in vehicle level design, integration and test. Preferred qualifications include prior launch vehicle and/or interceptor experience, prior experience with the design, test, and/or integration and deployment of electrical components or subsystems, team leadership experience, release of engineering documentation including technical drawings, specifications, and test procedures, problem solving not only for technical issues, but also for schedule, cost, resource, and other project challenges, mentoring and cross-training team members across a diverse set of technologies and electrical system architectures used to meet customer requirements, and knowledgeable with the use of basic test equipment such as power supplies, oscilloscopes, DMMs, and electronic loads.
Basic qualifications level IV include a BS in engineering and 9 years experience, or 7 years experience with a master's in engineering. Electrical engineering preferred. U.S. citizenship is required. Current and active DoD secret security clearance at time of application. Documented experience in vehicle level design, integration and test. Preferred qualifications include prior launch vehicle and/or interceptor experience, prior experience with the design, test, and/or integration and deployment of electrical components or subsystems, team leadership experience, release of engineering documentation including technical drawings, specifications, and test procedures, problem solving not only for technical issues, but also for schedule, cost, resource, and other project challenges, experience working in integrated product team (IPT) structure, mentoring and cross-training team members across a diverse set of technologies and electrical system architectures used to meet customer requirements, and knowledgeable with the use of basic test equipment such as power supplies, oscilloscopes, DMMs, and electronic loads.