Engineering and Strategic Planning Director - R10206760-3 - Northrop Grumman : Job Details

Engineering and Strategic Planning Director - R10206760-3 at Northrop Grumman

Relocation assistance may be available. Travel: Yes, up to 50% of the time. Clearance type: Secret.

STRING: The Strategy & Engineering Excellence (S&EE) organization is a trusted partner in Engineering Performance, Technology Leadership and Technical Talent and helps drive innovation and strategy for Engineering & Sciences. The Director, Engineering Strategic Planning, is responsible for leading strategy development in line with the Engineering & Sciences and Mission Systems sector's strategic objectives. This role requires extensive collaboration across a diverse group of sectors, divisions, internal stakeholders and external industry partners, and is responsible for identifying and driving innovation to prepare E&S for the future. The preferred candidate will have a solid technical background, strategic mindset and the ability to influence multiple levels of leadership and customers to drive cost, performance, schedule and improvements to innovate and execute engineering activities.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Leads collaborative partnership endeavors with stakeholders across the Sector and company to understand key drivers to business success and enhance the probability of meeting E&S longer-term goals.
• Develops coordinated efforts for new and emerging markets and collaborates with strategic investment to ensure the strategic plan has appropriate funding to support E&S and Mission System's goals.
• Fosters collaboration through groups such as reusable asset authorities, advisory boards, communities of practice, and centers of excellence.
• Partners with other functional organizations (manufacturing, supply chain, program management, etc.) to enable competitive engineering design and performance.
• Acts as E&S primary interface to internal, cross-functional and external partnerships including but not limited to:
• EELT initiatives (Sector Operating Objectives: Improve Product delivery & Engineering Process Initiatives)
• Cross Sector Engineering Initiatives (Technical Bi-Lats; Test Engineering; ECD (Product Lines))
• Identify Industry Partnerships externally, both aerospace and commercial to solve problems (Design to Cost, SE Copilot…)

Talent Strategy and Future Critical Skills

• Identify future skills needed to strengthen E&S competitiveness and develop role-based development tracks aligned to mission needs.
• Create and deploy targeted training and development aligned to critical skills and technical leadership needs.
• Ensure workforce development to execute engineering strategy and prepare for innovation.

Preferred location: Baltimore, MD. Will consider candidates located at or near Northrop Grumman facilities in San Diego, CA; Rolling Meadows, IL; or Woodland Hills, CA.

Position requires travel up to 30% of the time to support a distributed team.

Solid-line report to the Director of Strategy & Engineering Excellence.

• Bachelor's degree with minimum 10 years of experience, or Master's degree with minimum 8 years, or PhD with minimum 6 years in STEM technical fields.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated success leading and managing diverse technical teams on large or complex systems.
• Prior experience in strategy and market development and driving engineering partnerships.
• Balanced skill set across technical, interpersonal and business capabilities.
• Experience working across multiple lines of business and functional disciplines (e.g., manufacturing, supply chain, business management, strategy & business development).
• Ability to operate independently toward strategic objectives and collaborate across the corporation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to innovate and implement change while challenging traditional practices.
• Technical experience in Systems, Software, Hardware, or Cyber engineering within defense or aerospace.
• Knowledge of engineering processes, metrics, hiring, staffing, tools and training resources.
• Solid understanding of engineering processes with execution experience; familiarity with ISO 9001, AS9100, and CMMI.
• U.S. Citizenship required. Active DoD Secret Clearance required.

• Advanced degree in STEM fields.
• Active Top-Secret Clearance or higher; ability to obtain TS/SCI and Special Access Clearance.
• Program management experience with P&L accountability, preferably for large or complex programs.
• Ability to partner with stakeholders to balance project execution and enterprise efficiencies.
• Experience championing organizational change to gain competitive advantage.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed teams and briefing all management levels.
• Proven success in affordability initiatives.

Salary and Benefits—Primary Level Salary Range: $171,400.00 - $257,200.00. Northrop Grumman offers a range of benefits including health insurance, life and disability coverage, savings plan, holidays and PTO. Bonuses and long-term incentives may apply depending on role and performance.

Equal Opportunity—Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, visit the company site. U.S. citizenship is required for government clearance roles.

The application period for the job posting is estimated to be 20 days from posting date, subject to change based on business needs.