Northrop Grumman Australia ยท 1 month ago
Principal / Sr. Principal Reliability Engineer
United States-California-Woodland Hills
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$104K/yr - $155K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security, seeking a Reliability Engineer to join their Specialty Engineering Team in Woodland Hills, CA. The role involves performing reliability and maintainability analyses for avionics and navigation systems and collaborating with various teams to ensure system reliability and maintainability.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Perform reliability and maintainability allocations and predictions for avionics and navigation systems
Develop/Analyze Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Built-In Test (BIT) and Testability analyses
Develop/Analyze Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
Support Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
Perform Failure Analysis and Risk Assessment
Support BIT Design Verification Testing to evaluate BIT effectiveness
Support Maintainability and Testability Demonstrations
Support Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and Reliability Growth Testing (RGT)
Utilize knowledge of documents such as MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-2155 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2)
Develop trustworthy customer relationships via excellent communication, technical insight and successful execution of programs
Collaborate with Integrated Product Teams (IPT), program management, customers, and suppliers for the reliability, maintainability and testability (RMT) aspects of assigned systems
Support identifying, planning and quoting the RMT tasks for proposals
Qualification
Required
BS in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related STEM discipline with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or MS with 3 years of relevant experience
Demonstrated experience in Reliability and Maintainability disciplines, such as familiarity with MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-2155 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2)
Familiarity with electronic circuit schematics and component failure modes/mechanisms
Demonstrated clear and effective verbal and written communication skills to be able to interact with team members, peers and leadership within NGDS and the customer community
Experience with process improvement
U.S. citizenship
The ability to obtain/maintain a DoD Secret Security Clearance within a timeframe acceptable to management
Ability to work full-time onsite at the Woodland Hills, CA facility
BS in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related STEM discipline with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, or MS with 6 years of relevant experience, or PhD with 4 years relevant experience
Demonstrated experience in Reliability and Maintainability disciplines, such as familiarity with MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-2155 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2)
Familiarity with electronic circuit schematics and component failure modes/mechanisms
Demonstrated clear and effective verbal and written communication skills to be able to interact with team members, peers and leadership within NGDS and the customer community
Experience with process improvement
U.S. citizenship
The ability to obtain/maintain a DoD Secret Security Clearance within a timeframe acceptable to management
Ability to work full-time onsite at the Woodland Hills, CA facility
Preferred
Electrical Engineering Degree
Experience with hands-on RMT analysis and modeling skills for electronic and non-electronic systems
Experience calculating critical reliability metrics such as Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time Between Unscheduled Removal (MTBUR)
Experience performing Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis with Testability Analysis
Knowledge of reliability techniques including Weibull analysis, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Monte Carlo Simulation and others
Experience with Reliability analysis software and modeling tools
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees, management and customers
Experience in the military, government, commercial aerospace industry (e.g. aviation/equipment maintenance, aircraft operations, or commercial industrial technology companies)
Knowledge of Reliability Maintainability and Testability disciplines
Ability to read circuit schematics and mechanical drawings
Innovative mindset with focus on process improvement
Possess Active Secret DoD Security Clearance
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