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Sentinel Flight Test Design Review Campaign Lead- Systems Engineering Manager 3- 20479

Ngc Open
United States-Utah-Roy Full-time Senior Engineering Leadership

At a glance

Senior Engineering Leadership role at Ngc. United States-Utah-Roy · full-time · $166,700–$250,100 base.

SalaryStated by Ngc
$166,700 – $250,100
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
RoleEngineering Leadership
SenioritySenior
LocationUnited States-Utah-Roy
EmploymentFull-time
Base pay$166,700–$250,100
PostedOct 20, 2026
Role brief

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What you'll do

  • Guide the flight test design review from detailed planning through the final event and closure of resulting actions
  • Shape the campaign approach and roadmaps, then issue the plans, procedures, checklists, and measures needed to run it
  • Bring teams together for incremental reviews and readiness sessions covering technical maturity, schedule, risks, and opportunities
  • Present progress to program and customer leaders, and compile the technical inputs for the review data package
  • Coordinate the MPE schedule with affected stakeholders and assist review work across other product teams

What you bring

  • A STEM bachelor's degree plus at least eight years of related work, or a master's degree and six years of related experience
  • U.S. citizenship and an active government Secret authorization, with an investigation no older than six years
  • Experience reporting program status and performance measures to internal and external stakeholders
  • Ability to travel up to ten percent

Who this fits

This senior systems engineering leadership role suits someone who can run a technical review campaign, coordinate stakeholders, and communicate program progress. The job is based in Roy, Utah, requires an active Secret clearance, and involves travel up to ten percent. The standard schedule is nine hours Monday through Thursday, with every other Friday off; relocation support may be available.

From the employer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

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.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Flight Test Design Review (FTDR) Campaign Lead- Systems Engineering Manager 3 to be located in Roy, UT. Relocation assistance may be provided.



What You’ll Get To Do

The Sentinel program has an exciting opportunity for a Flight Test Design Review (FTDR) Campaign Lead on the Sentinel Systems Engineering team. FTDR establishes that the Sentinel Flight Test configuration is defined and ready to support the program's Flight Test events. The FTDR Campaign Lead has leadership responsibility for the FTDR; they lead the development and integration activities for FTDR to enable success at the culminating FTDR event.

Specific duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Event leader for the FTDR Chair

• Develops FTDR campaign strategy and associated roadmaps

• Supports lower level / incremental build up activities and Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs) to ensure a manageable risk posture for a successful FTDR

• Briefing executive program and customer leadership

• Publishes plans, procedures, checklists and metrics in support of FTDR

• Monitors and reports technical, cost, and schedule progress to program leadership, customers, and stakeholders

• Develops and manages handling plans for risks and opportunities associated with FTDR

• Ensures content is captured, presented, and delivered on time to support the campaign events

• Responsible for compiling and delivering the FTDR data package to include understanding the technical products that are input to the data package

• Provide down-and-in event support to other product segment teams across the program. This includes but is not limited to

o Creating strong partnerships with other product segment MPE leadership teams

o Support data reviews

o Interpretation and implementation advisement for program plans, procedures, and checklists

o Participate in and provide lower level execution event surge support as needed

• Establish and facilitate regular FTDR review / working group sessions regarding readiness metrics related to technical maturity and schedule

• Establish strong customer relationships and alignment regarding FTDR

• Provide leadership of event execution and closure of all action items

• Responsible for auditing the completion of all criteria for FTDR

• Understand the scope and impacts of IMS givers and receivers that support successful FTDR

• Manage and reforecast the MPE schedule based on coordination with all impacted stakeholders

• Lead FTDR planning during detailed planning activities


Position Benefits:  

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including: 

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage  

• 401k  

• Educational Assistance  

• Life Insurance  

• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions  

• Paid Time Off  

• Health & Wellness Resources  

• Employee Discounts  

  

This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.  


You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) with 8 years of related experience or Masters Degree and 6 years of related experience

•Must be a US Citizen with an active U.S. Government Secret Clearance with an investigation date within the last 6 years

•Experience reporting program status and metrics to internal and external leadership and stakeholders

•Ability to travel up to 10%


These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

•ICBM experience

•EVM certified with experience on reporting and VARs

•Large scale / complex system development experience across multiple phases of a development program: preliminary design, detailed design, integration and test, verification and sell off, transition to production

•Experience with technical reviews for large scale and complex system development

•Proven communication and leadership skills and experience leading small teams in a dynamic work environment

•Demonstrated ability to create trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders reviews for large scale and complex system development

•Flight Test experience in a System of Systems Architecture

•3 years in a formal lead/management position

•Experience with implementing and using model-based systems engineering tools, practices, and methods

•5+ years of experience working with Systems Engineering and Integration and Test, keeping projects on cost and schedule

Primary Level Salary Range: $166,700.00 - $250,100.00

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 an Equal Opportunity 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 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.
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