Northrop Grumman Australia · 1 day ago
Staff Aeronautical Design Engineer
United States-California-San Diego
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$161K/yr - $241K/yr
8+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company, and they are seeking a Staff Aeronautical Design Engineer to join their Vehicle Engineering organization. In this role, you will lead a team of engineers in developing and maintaining aircraft design configurations while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure robust designs.
Defense & Space
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, train and collaborate with team of engineers
Provide technical oversight and technical support to other disciplines as required
Responsible for cost and schedule associated to SOW
Lead internal program, customer and/or supplier technical exchange meetings and/or formal program milestone reviews to provide and/or obtain progress status updates
Interface with relevant stakeholders, including cross-functional teams, customers, and suppliers, to ensure robust and maintainable configurations are produced
Consults on design and integration of composite materials and their applications
Leverages advanced knowledge of aircraft structure concepts including best practices for material selection of materials and metallic/composites trade analyses
Capture best practices in designing various aircraft systems including composites and/or metallic and their associated requirements for composites and/or metallic structures
Perform design related tasks utilizing the NX, CATIA, Fibersim and Teamcenter tool suite
Integrate subsystems components and structural configurations into various types of aircraft applications
Perform GD&T activities associated with producing and manufacturing of designs
Ability to design for affordability leveraging Agile methodology
Lead proposal activity including evaluating and providing proposal technical inputs and cost estimation
Lead tasks and managing tasks/projects efforts to balance schedule, cost and quality
Qualification
Required
Must have a Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline AND at least 12 years of related professional or military experience in mechanical or aerospace engineering; OR a Master's degree in a STEM discipline AND at least 10 years of related professional or military experience in mechanical or aerospace engineering, OR a Ph.D. in a STEM discipline AND at least 8 years of related professional / military experience in mechanical or aerospace engineering
Must have experience with CATIA and Teamcenter PLM
Preferred
Experience designing aircraft primary and secondary structures
Experience with NX CAD software, and CPLM
Experience with advanced manufacturing processes
Participation in multiple design and analysis cycles in aircraft development programs
Active DoD Secret clearance or higher
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase