Staff Engineer Reliability

The Staff Engineer- Reliability leads reliability engineering initiatives to improve uptime, reduce failure risk, and optimize lifecycle performance of critical operational assets. Drives data-informed decision-making across maintenance, operations, and program planning.  Reports to Product Support leadership to ensure requirements meet Program objectives.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Provide reliability subject matter expert advice on assigned program.

• Review and disposition (as required) of system drawings in CAD, NX, Solidworks, specifications and other engineering technical data…includes Northrop Grumman, Supplier, and Government furnished technical data.

• Perform detailed review and development of technical data to support development of Reliability Centered Maintenance assessments of avionics systems and complete airframes

• Development of model for meeting MTTR and mission timeline requirements

• Interface between the reliability organization and other functional elements of the capture program.

• Provide advice to Systems Engineers regarding their responsibilities in accordance with the Reliability Program.

• Will interface with other reliability related disciplines and will define the resources needed to perform reliability requirements.

• Participate in reliability engineering reviews.

• Create Basis of Estimates for capture efforts for the reliability discipline.

• Conduct independent reliability analysis as deemed necessary.

• Perform analysis of design solution reliability under provided requirements.

• Work with multiple teams and cross-functional departments

• Compiling reports, plans and presentations for project leaders

Basic Qualifications

• 12 Years with Bachelors in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM); 10 Years with Masters; 8 Years with PhD

• Experience with Root Cause Analysis, FRACAS, FMEA/ FMECA or related Reliability Engineering work

• Experience with reading and understanding technical data (e.g., Technical Orders, Engineering Drawings, Parts Lists, Bills of Material, Engineering Specifications, etc.)

• Exercising a high degree of initiative and exhibiting advance organization skills.

• Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance standards without supervision.

• Demonstrated ability to solve a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity.

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fluid environment with diverse stakeholders.

• Understanding of logistic elements; maintainability, supportability, and reliability.

• Understanding of CAMEO requirement management

• Experience in aviation maintenance, maintenance planning, manufacturing, or design

• Must have ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Government Secret clearance and ability to be eligibility for Top Secret

Preferred Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Secret clearance

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance

• Practical hands-on experience performing: Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, FRACAS, ESS, Reliability Testing, Root Cause Analysis, FMEA/FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis, sparing analysis, and related engineering work.

• Experience with or exposure to digital design initiatives and solutions to include Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Model Based Sustainment (MBS)

• Experience using CAMEO Enterprise Architecture

• Experience with Life Cycle Cost Analysis and Modeling/Simulation

• Min 3 years of technical experience in Logistics Engineering (Reliability / Maintainability / Sustainability)

• Candidate must have an understanding of the either or both S-Series Standards/Mil-STD 1388 (defunct)

• Significant experience in military, government, commercial aerospace industry (e.g. aviation/equipment maintenance, aircraft operations, or commercial industrial technology companies)

• Knowledge of Military Specifications, Contract Data Requirements Lists (CDRLs), Data Item Descriptions (DIDs) and other related technical and contractual documents

• Experience in completing detailed risk analysis.

• Experience in completing Basis of Estimates (BOE).

• Prior experience with Capture Development / Capture Teams

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.