Northrop Grumman Australia · 1 month ago
Principal Systems Engineer - Reliability
Northrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company that offers employees opportunities to work on revolutionary systems impacting lives globally. The Principal Systems Engineer - Reliability will focus on System Reliability & Maintainability Engineering Analysis, ensuring performance requirements are met for design changes and new development efforts.
Defense & Space
Responsibilities
Perform R&M allocations and predictions
Develop Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) analysis
Perform Built In Test (BIT) testability analysis
Develop mission reliability analysis
Support the development of teams in the investigation of issues
Familiarity with Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
Experience with Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
Experience with maintainability demonstrations
Experience with Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), Reliability Growth Testing (RGT), and Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)
Liaison with Integrated Product Teams (IPT) and suppliers for the R&M of assigned subsystems
Collaborate closely with system engineers, hardware designers, and integration/test engineers
Develop, coordinate and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs
Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability
Compile and analyze performance reports and process control statistics; investigate and analyze relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes
Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards
Analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives
Develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks
Propose changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability
Determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specify minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of engineering experience OR Master's Degree in STEM and 3 years of engineering experience OR PhD with 1 years of engineering experience
Experience in Reliability and Maintainability discipline
Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated DoD Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace or Electrical Engineering or similar Engineering Degree
Minimum 5 years of experience within Reliability and Maintainability discipline
Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management
Active, In scope DoD Top Secret or SCI clearance
Benefits
Retirement and Savings Plan
Group medical, dental and vision coverage
Life and disability insurance
Flexible spending accounts
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.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase