Senior Principal Airworthiness Engineer

1 week ago

San Diego, California, United States Northrop Grumman Full time
Job Summary:

Northrop Grumman is seeking a highly skilled Senior Principal Airworthiness Engineer to join our team in San Diego, CA. As a key member of our Airworthiness Engineering Directorate, you will be responsible for supporting certification efforts on various air vehicle platforms. Your expertise in airworthiness planning, verification, and coordination will be essential in ensuring the logical and systematic realization of customer airworthiness certification objectives into system solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Perform technical airworthiness planning and verification support, including development and negotiation of airworthiness plans, bases of certification, means of compliance, and other certification activities.
Review and coordinate with other airworthiness engineers as well as internal engineering disciplines performed across the total system, including design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal.
Perform functional and process analyses, requirements allocation, and definition studies to translate customer requirements into criteria and derived requirements.
Ensure the logical and systematic realization of customer airworthiness certification objectives into system solutions to meet program needs throughout the product lifecycle.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 9 years of experience, or Master's degree with 7 years of experience, or PhD with 4 years of experience.
Familiarity with MIL-HDBK-516B Expanded and -516C.
Work experience leading the development of Airworthiness plans, a Basis of Certification, and related activities.
Work experience with domestic and international UAS/RPAS airworthiness authorizations and type certifications.
Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

Military aircraft development or modification experience.
Ability to initiate Airworthiness Certification process improvement initiatives.
DoD and Civil Airworthiness Experience.
Work experience and familiarity with UAS/RPAS.
Design and Systems Engineering experience in one or more of the following areas: Structures, Flight Technology, Air Vehicle Subsystems, Avionics, Mission Payload Integration, System Safety, Flight Test, Configuration Management.
Experience with USAF Airworthiness Policy Directives, Instructions, and Airworthiness Bulletins (AWB).
Control Account Management (CAM) and Earned Value Management System (EVMS) experience, including Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) planning and tracking, Earned Value reporting, variance analysis, and Estimate at Complete (EAC) forecasting.
Experience in a System Design Responsible (SDR) organization per international regulations with signature authority.
Interactions with airworthiness authorities US DoD, MoD International, or civil authorities.
Familiarity of European Military Aviation Regulations (EMARs).
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and SharePoint.
Current active U.S. Government in-scope DoD Secret security clearance or higher.

Salary Range:

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

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