Travel Lead - Dulles, VA, United States - Northrop Grumman

Description

Category:
Engineering


Shift:
Days (United States of America)

Travel Required:
Yes, 25% 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.

If so, we need you to help to build, develop and manage mission engineers. Leading a team developing the curriculum for the ground software and operations of a dynamic classified mission within the space security domain of approximately 5 people
Own developing and delivering training material to the end user; including the training content, management of staff developing and delivering training, as well as the scheduling of training events with the end user
Define the tasks to train the end user in mission planning (MP) and orbital analysis (OA) functions for a space security mission performing dynamic operations in the geosynchronous (GEO) orbital regime
Ability to capture core concepts and instructional needs from a large amount of technical data (ground and space hardware) and communicate technical concepts to an audience of non-subject matter experts with varying levels of space domain experience

Design a training approach for a growing constellation of heterogenous satellites with maturing automation for commanding & telemetry and mission planning.

Develop a training program that aligns with agile software development and delivery, while ensuring operators maintain certifications on the ground system and on-orbit system capabilities

Drive and maintain a focus on operator readiness for mission execution, with the ability to adapt the training program to evolving customer and end user requirements.

Design the training products to include Computer-Based Training (CBT) and advanced simulation training to provide Initial Qualification Training (IQT), Mission Qualification Training (MQT), and tactics development using the ground software
Interface and drive engagement directly with the end user to ensure the training program meets the standards defined by Air Force and Space Force guidance
Lead adoption of new approaches to legacy instructional training approaches, while ensuring that all instructional and certification requirements are met
Maintain weekly engagements with the customer and end user on the status of the training program and own responses to customer actions
Bachelor's Degree with 14+ years of experience or Master's Degree with 12 years experience
Experience in RPO mission design, satellite ground software, distributed modeling & simulation
Experience training and leading operational space missions at a mission operations center
Experience in scripting languages (e.g. Python, STOL, VBA etc)
#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.

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