Northrop Grumman Australia · 5 hours ago
Electrical Engineering Manager 1 – Cable Design Group
United States-Arizona-Chandler
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$115K/yr - $172K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leader in aerospace and defense technology, currently seeking an Electrical Engineering Manager to lead their cable design group in Chandler, Arizona. The role involves overseeing cable design processes, supporting engineering teams, and ensuring adherence to technical standards while fostering team development.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Based on program and department objectives, work with program managers and lead electrical engineers to support the day-to-day activities of the cable engineering teams
Act as a technical lead, technical contributor, or technical consultant on various projects
Focus attention on the career development needs of the team members
Support all aspects of cable design and may support vehicle design, integration, and test using a wide range of avionics electronic assembly products
Understanding and application of company electrical engineering technical standards
Strong technical expertise and working knowledge of other related disciplines
Ensures standard processes, procedures and command media are followed, including Safety, 5S, Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Control, Electrostatic Discharge Control (ESD) control, Tool Control, among others
Provides formal peer review of engineering designs or analyses
Solicits process improvement ideas from the team and leads to drive those efforts to realization
Working with program managers and engineering leads to ensuring the right people, processes, and tools are in place to meet the business needs
Working with electrical engineering leads to help oversee the supervision of engineering activity and work products, workload management, and the performance management process
Function as a key contributor, managing assigned responsibilities and directing the work of the leads and engineers to accomplish business goals
Plan manpower requirements as well as conduct quarterly and annual performance reviews of staff
Identify, manage and grow the critical skills development process for the engineering team
Motivates team; actively, effectively participates and contributes in a positive manner
Train and mentor early career engineers in Electrical Engineering and test standards
Makes an extra effort to provide quality internal and external customer service
Work with the engineering team to identify causes of problems and develop solutions
Perform data analysis to identify trends in system performance or processes that may indicate poor performance or degradation and then suggest methods to intercept and mitigate the degradation
Act with safety as your number one priority through every aspect of the role
Qualification
Required
Requires 5 years with a bachelor's degree in engineering or 3 years with a master's degree in engineering
Strong leadership, influence, and people management skills
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with an ability to effectively communicate to all levels of employees, management, and customers
Ability to obtain a DoD Active Secret Clearance is required
U.S. Citizenship is required
Preferred
Experience managing people preferred
Experience as technical manager, lead, or similar leadership role with mentoring, team building, organizational, and interpersonal skills
Design, test, and/or integration and deployment of cable designs for launch vehicles
Release of engineering documentation including technical drawings, specifications, and test procedures
Management or tracking of projects through a product life cycle
Manufacturing support during the production of cable products
Developing schedules, budgets, and requirements with minimal oversight
Problem solving not only for technical issues, but also for schedule, cost, resource and other project challenges
Mentoring and cross-training team members across a diverse set of technologies and equipment architectures used to meet customer requirements
Circuit design and analysis
Siemens Capital Teamcenter Product Lifecycle Management software
Siemens Capital E-CAD Electrical Design software products
Atlassian Jira for task tracking and project management
Contributions to process improvement initiatives
Experience with classified test systems or systems subject to cyber security policies
Experience with MDA, Air Force, NASA, Navy, or other military customer requirements
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