Senior Staff Internal Technical Trainer

An organization within Northrop Grumman, Mission Enabling Products (MEP) is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, and antenna reflectors. Our products are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years. 

Our Deployables Operating unit is seeking a Senior Staff Internal Technical Trainer to support technical training efforts for the Deployable Structures & Mechanisms portfolio of programs. This portfolio includes production programs of complex motorized composite structural elements that enable remote sensing and communication programs. 

This position is 100% on-site and may be located at either our Goleta or Oxnard, CA sites.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Designs, schedules, delivers and tracks technical training

• Establishes training and education modules and ensure consistency in the delivery of technical training and on-boarding

• Provides train-the-trainer program and qualifies all area trainers for content delivery

• Partners with functional managers to develop training materials, and knowledge assessments, for area standard operation procedures (SOP's) and coordinates knowledge assessment

• Utilizes training authoring and multimedia tools and software for assigned development projects

• Remain current in training and development research, learning theory, motivation theory, and new materials, methods, and techniques

• Provides technical leadership, direction and mentoring to other technical employees

• Acts as advisor to management, co-workers and customers on advanced technical research studies

• Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 14 years relevant experience; OR 12 years relevant experience with a master’s degree; OR 10 years with a PhD

• Established experience in the development and delivery of training programs or courses

• Demonstrated ability to formally present technical solutions to senior leadership

• Technical expertise in design, test, or manufacture of space craft components

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills

• Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues

• Strong MS Office knowledge, specifically with PowerPoint

• Ability to travel between the Goleta and Oxnard, CA facilities

• US Citizenship is required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering

• Experience in the design, test, or manufacturing of deployable hardware