Principal / Sr. Principal Spacecraft Ground Systems Engineer (Active TS/SCI and adjudicated CI Poly required) - Colorado Springs, CO, United States - Northrop Grumman

Description

Category:
Engineering

Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)

Travel Required:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Relocation Assistance:
Relocation assistance may be available

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 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.

The Payload and Ground Systems, a division within Northrop Grumman's Space Systems Sector is known for pushing the boundaries of innovation, redefining engineering capabilities, and driving advances in various sciences through cutting-edge technology.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Ground Systems and Spacecraft Programs Integratorto join our team supporting our FROST program.

Integration activities include requirements identification, launch and early orbit, vehicle disposal, CONOP development, mission analysis, and on-console operations.

Our ideal candidate will also provide program expertise on engineering subsystems and have an active role in shaping the basis of how to execute planning and operations.

Document system issues and opportunities for improvement.
Advocates for operations requirements with system engineering and ensures engineering implementations meet operational needs.
Prioritizes engineering requirements and ensures staged implementation of solutions meets Program timelines.
Provides satellite operations expertise to a broad array of engineering, development, integration, and strategic initiatives.
Provide for the planning, preparation, execution, and evaluation for satellite and launch vehicle rehearsals, exercises, and compatibility tests.
Prepares and reviews operational, anomaly, contingency, and training support procedures.
Performs operations as a mission planner or mission analyst for mission pre-pass planning and scheduling.

Performs operations as a ground systems operator in support of testing and real time operations during acquisition, launch, early orbit, on-orbit, and disposal phases of flight.

Reviews data and historical files and logs of operational supports for investigation of operational issues.

Leads discussions and works in a dynamic team environment that includes government personnel, SETAs, program offices, contractors, and spacecraft and launch vehicle manufacturers.

Interfaces with systems engineering, software engineering, cyber, IT, and launch personnel to ensure requirements are being met.
Develops operational procedures for 24/7 operations crews.
Achieves and maintains certification as a ground systems operations controller.

Certification will be maintained as a requirement to provide surge support to operations, and on-console support to critical test, launch, and on-orbit events.

This requisition may be filled at either a level 3 or a level 4, depending on the candidate's experience as laid out in the basic qualifications detailed below as well as the interview assessment.

Level 3:
~5 Years of relevant experience with a completed Bachelor's-STEM degree; 0 Years of relevant experience with a completed PhD-STEM [completed STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) degree is required to be considered for this role]

~ 9 Years of relevant experience with a completed Bachelor's-STEM degree; 4 Years of relevant experience with a completed PhD-STEM [completed STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) degree is required to be considered for this role]

Must have an Active TS/SCI DoD security clearance AND an adjudicated CI Polygraph [US Citizenship required]
Robust knowledge of spacecraft flight operations and ground systems utilized for command and control.
Knowledge of systems engineering processes, system verification validation and test (VV&T), requirements interpretation.
Able to maintain crew certification as a ground systems operations controller.
Able to occasionally travel to factory, government, and launch locations.
Experience executing systems engineering processes and participating in system verification validation and test (VV&T) activities.
Experience with spacecraft flight operations and/or spacecraft ground systems operations.
Ground Systems Engineering or Spacecraft Vehicle Engineering experience.

The 9/80 schedule allows employees to work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday and take every other Friday off.

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.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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.