Northrop Grumman Australia · 1 month ago
Principal Engineering Planning Analyst
United States-California-San Diego
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$104K/yr - $155K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense company known for its innovative technologies. They are seeking a Principal Engineering Planning Analyst to coordinate the F-35 Aircraft Maintenance, Upgrade and Overhaul (MUO) CLS, manage schedules, budgets, and resources while ensuring compliance with safety and operational standards.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Prepares and coordinates the plans and schedules for new or existing programs
Determines, monitors, and reviews costs, operational budgets and schedules, and manpower requirements
Supports and participates in negotiations with customers
Analyzes effects of projects upon various areas such as Engineering, Facilities, and the labor pool to determine the most practical and cost-efficient methods to obtain the required resources
Resolves proposal preparation problems and assesses the progress against established plans and parameters
Formulates and recommends corrective action measures such as schedule revisions, manpower adjustments, fund allocations, and work requirements
Manages general services, repairs, and overhauls of aircraft and aircraft engines to ensure that aircraft are in good mechanical condition and safe for flight, ensuring all maintenance actions are properly documented
Assign aircraft to the daily flight schedule, ensuring operational subsystems are capable of executing the assigned mission
Creates and assigns work-orders in the Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) and accomplishes aircraft safety of flight releases as required
Candidate may supervise multiple maintenance disciplines in an integrated workforce environment that consists of Military and Lockheed Martin employees
Ensure workforce follows appropriate technical instructions, NAMP 4790.2_series and NAMP 4790.35 local operating instructions
Advises unit leadership and staff management on status of work in progress, material availability, and potential production problems to ensure that personnel, equipment, materials, and services are provided as needed
Ensures good housekeeping and safety practices are enforced
Considered candidates must be capable of working first (1st), second (2nd), or third (3rd) shift(s) dependent on customer needs
Candidates should expect to depart on temporary duty assignments with short notice, dependent on customer or NGC CLS needs to include stateside or overseas. This may include certain military required health screenings and immunizations
Qualification
Required
Must have a high school diploma or equivalent (GED) 9 years of aircraft maintenance experience. Will consider a bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience; or a master's degree with 3 years of experience; or an associate's degree with 7 years of aircraft maintenance experience
Must have an active (DoD) Secret security clearance Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company
Must be able to successfully complete and pass government required F-35 trainings (Advanced Technical Training and/or Cadre Course) for continued employment
Must be willing to provide temporarily support to our other CFT locations at: NAS Lemoore, MCAS Beaufort, MCAS Cherry Point, or MCAS Yuma should the need arise
Must have experience as an aircraft Safe-For-flight administrator
Experience with hardware and software change management through the application of Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
Experience utilizing Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), Logistics Control Number (LCN) bill of material (BOM), Electronic Equipment Logs (EEL), Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), Joint Service Technical Data (JTD), and Action Requests (AR)
Preferred
Fighter aircraft MRO&U experience
Advanced knowledge of Maintenance Control and Material Control responsibilities and associated COMNAVAIRFORINST 4790.2 directives
Advanced knowledge of Release Aircraft Safe for Flight under supervision (A Sheet Block 10 signed by Safe-for-Flight) to include Hot Pit/Hot Seat Evolutions (Block 8)
Minimum of 2 years' experience as a team lead or supervisor
F-35 or F-22, or other low observable (LO) program experience
Proficient implementing Time Compliance Technical Directives (TCTD)
Proficient interpreting and analyzing modification engineering drawings and manufacturing/material process specifications
Experience and working knowledge with F-35 sustainment tools; Product Data Manager (PDM), JSF Data Library (JDL), Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS)
Knowledge and experience with program change/configuration management and associated change boards for processing change requests with retrofit implications
Completion of Lockheed-Martin F-35 Release for Flight training
Proficient with Microsoft Business Suite
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