Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Systems Safety Engineer - Level 2 or Level 3 to join our team in Chandler, AZ.       

Be part of a team dedicated to keeping complex systems safe to manufacture, test, and operate. You will define and evaluate safety requirements, ensure implementation of critical safety features, and communicate with colleagues, customers, users, and other stakeholders whose lives are on the line in using these systems!

This position is 100% on site in Chandler, AZ.

In this job, you will:

• Work with a small team of System Safety engineers in defining, implementing, and verifying System Safety requirements to ensure that the inherent risks are mitigated.

• Apply the systems engineering process to define and verify launch vehicle and ground support equipment requirements to ensure safe operations and conduct system safety analyses to architect and implement a safe and robust system.

• Understand the entire mission, including the launch vehicle, payload, ground support equipment, range infrastructure, and safety interfaces.

• Understand how the different components, subsystems, systems, and integrated launch vehicle function and interact, with a focus on System Safety.

• Interact with key internal and external customers and partners regarding system safety topics.

• Support launch vehicle design and development to ensure that customer and internal goals for safety, mission success, and performance are met.

• Analyze and explain launch vehicle designs to external customers to explain how applicable safety requirements for design, build, and test are met.

• Interface with customer safety and launch integration personnel and support ground operations and launch mission working groups as requested.

• Analyze integration and test processes to demonstrate customer and internal requirements are met for both safety and mission success, whether at the various launch sites or at our facilities in Chandler, AZ.

• Review product systems associated with support equipment and facilities, functional specifications and operations, and establishes safety requirements for assigned systems.

• Independently analyze and recommend safety criteria in system design, equipment, and procedures to control or eliminate hazards.

• Develop safety documents as required to support customer and test/operational range requirements.

• Perform audits of operational areas and reports effectiveness of system safety program.

• Participate in accident investigations involving damage to products or related facilities and assist in identification of causes and corrective actions.

• Evaluate the interrelationship of system safety requirements and other aspects of concept design and development requirements to ensure the most cost-effective program.

*Please be aware that this position is contingent upon capturing program award(s) and obtaining and maintaining associated business and/or customer funding. Furthermore, this position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company. Continued employment thereafter will be subject to maintenance at the level of clearance and program access required for the position in the future*

This position can be filled at either a Level 2 or Level 3.

Basic Qualifications:

Level 2: Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with 2 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in STEM with no professional experience

Level 3: Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in STEM with 3 years of related engineering experience, or a PhD in STEM with 1 years of related engineering experience

• Applicants must be a current U.S. Citizen

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance

• Experience with launch vehicle or similar system design, testing, or mission operations

• Knowledge of the systems engineering discipline and its application for system safety

• Experience managing deadlines, scheduling work, reporting cost expenditure

• Knowledge of RCC-319, RCC-324, SSCMAN 91-710, and MIL-STD-882

Preferred Qualifications:

•  Active U.S. Government Secret clearance

• Demonstrated ability to work independently

• Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate complex ideas and reach decision milestones

• Experience forming and executing schedules and budgets

• Demonstrated ability to work independently

• Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate complex ideas and reach decision milestones

• Demonstrated Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) experience in CAMEO

• Experience with tailoring and implementing FAA, RCC-319, RCC-324, SSCMAN 91-710, and/or MIL-STD-882 content

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