RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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 pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. 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. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Our Aeronautics Systems Sector is seeking a Reliability Engineer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for support projects associated with the design and development of communication, navigation, radar, avionics, power and/or electrical systems architecture, components, circuits, and products or aircraft maintenance. The employee will research, develop, design, and test electrical components, equipment, systems, and products for defense systems or commercial purposes.

You will become part of Northrop Grumman’s Lifecycle Sustainment and Modernization Solutions (LSMS). LSMS provides sustainment support for the US Air Force B-1 and B-2 Bombers, E-3 Sentry, Airborne Warning and Control System, and numerous other Government platforms. Our team members complete engineering, reverse engineering, and logistics solution efforts to solve complex obsolescence problems and ensure warfighter supportability. 

This Reliability Engineer will help develop, coordinate and conduct reliability, maintainability and availability studies and evaluations of engineering designs throughout the program life cycle (business capture, development, production and sustainment). This person will help support efforts within our LSMS area, to include technical planning, system integration, ground and flight testing, verification and validation, airworthiness, cost and risk, reliability / maintainability, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.

Responsibilities:

Develop, coordinate and conduct reliability, maintainability and availability studies and evaluations of engineering design throughout the program life cycle (business capture, development, production and sustainment

Provides reliability, availability, and maintainability guidance and leadership/support to various IPTs, ensuring program requirements and performances are understood

Understand Statement of Work/program specification content and applicability to program implementation, e.g., reliability and availability requirements, requirement allocations and flow down to lower assembly levels.

Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability

Develops, coordinates, and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts

Develops reliability math models and allocations, Reliability Block Diagrams, Reliability and Maintainability Program Plans

Performs parts derating, reliability parts count/stress and process grades analysis and reliability simulations

Assesses reliability data of fielded systems for the purpose of assessing and documenting RAM and Logistics metrics and reliability (cumulative and instantaneous) growth trends

Performs reliability (MTBF, MTBCF, MTBUR, Ao, Am) analysis, maintainability and logistics (LRU, MTBM, MTTR, MDT, LDT, TAT) analysis, sparing analysis, and simulations which support military and industry standards

Recommends design or test methods and statistical analysis (AMSAA Planning Model and Reliability Growth Curves, Bayesian, Weibayes, Monte Carlo, Exponential, Poisson, Binomial, Weibull, Duane, Crow-AMSAA, etc.) for achieving required levels of product and system reliability

Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting reliability and maintainability

Develops mathematical models to identify items posing excessive failure risks

Proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or reliability processes

Determines items requiring environmental testing and number of samples to obtain statistically valid data

Develops FMECA to identify criticality levels based on failure rates and severity of the effects of failures

Develops and performs Reliability and Maintainability Demonstrations, Fault Detection/Fault Isolation analysis, and Prognostic Health Management analysis

Develops and executes ESS, ALT, and HALT plans and procedures and provide inputs from past experiences

Leads FRACAS meetings, perform FRACAS data mining and trend analysis, failure analysis, corrective actions; develop technical materials for presentation to the Failure Review Board, Problem Report and Resolution Board, and Ad Hoc

Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.

Contributes to the completion of milestones associated with specific projects and requirements

Provides solutions to a variety of technical problems of increasing scope and complexity as assigned

Support subcontractor evaluation, selection and coordinate activities with respect to reliability needs

Prepare for, present at and participate in design reviews

Effectively engage with external Customers and internal stakeholders

Generate high quality work products on-schedule and on-budget

Identify continuous improvement efforts as reliability engineering tasks are performed

Support program Engineering Configuration Change Board (CCB) and Corrective Action Board (CAB)

Ability to interpret Engineering drawings/schematics

Basic Qualifications:

Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with a minimum of 2 years of engineering experience

2 years of industry experience related to reliability engineering in design and/or product sustainment

Experiences with multiple modeling tools, such as ReliaSoft/RELEX Toolset (Reliability, Maintainability, OpSim, FMECA, Fault Tree, FRACAS, RGA, and Weibull++), AMSAA Models, VMETRIC, RAPTOR, etc.), used for reliability and sparing analysis

Experience in: root cause analysis, test design/execution/data analysis as applicable to accelerated life, reliability growth, and reliability modeling

Experience related to assessing and addressing R&M requirements for design development activities

Experience developing R&M program plans for new systems or for sustainment of existing systems to include staff planning, scheduling, collecting historical data, establishing configuration control processes for large program data storage and R&M software tools analysis

Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secret security clearance and ability to obtain/maintain access to work on-site in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (No Relocation Provided)

Preferred Qualifications:

Secret Clearance

Excellent communications skills – work with multiple departments to solve problems

Ability to interpret Engineering drawings/schematics

Salary Range: $66,600.00 - $99,800.00

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.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. 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. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.