Senior Staff Chief Engineer

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⚔️ Virginia, West Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote ⛰️ West Virginia – Remote

💵 $166.5k - $249.7k / year

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Northrop Grumman

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1939

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

Manufacturing • Logistics • Defense

Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense company, recognized for its innovative solutions in air, cyber, land, sea, and space domains. With a focus on advanced technologies and innovation, Northrop Grumman provides unmatched expertise in military communications, satellite communications, and microelectronics manufacturing. The company is committed to solving complex challenges and 'defining possible' by transforming the concepts of what's achievable. Northrop Grumman is also actively involved in sustainability efforts and offers career opportunities to various levels of professionals, including veterans and entry-level candidates.

📋 Description

• Provide expert technical guidance, analysis, and solution development for customer projects involving advanced propulsion technologies • Support feasibility studies, performance assessments, certification support, and optimization of propulsion architectures • Lead propulsion system analyses covering thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, structural, and control disciplines • Develop and validate performance models • Perform trade studies on advanced tactical propulsion system concepts • Serve as a voting member on design and testing engineering review boards • Mentor and coach engineers • Define work scopes, deliverables, and schedules and manage day-to-day execution to meet client milestones • Produce technical reports, presentations, and design reviews • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to ensure integrated propulsion solutions • Serve as the primary technical liaison for customer engineering teams • Conduct workshops, webinars, and training sessions on propulsion best practices and emerging technologies • Translate customer needs into actionable engineering tasks and propose innovative concepts • Contribute to proposal writing, cost estimations, and technical scoping for new consulting engagements • Identify opportunities for service expansion and present them to senior leadership • Support internal research and development activities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or a closely related field and at least 20 years of hands-on propulsion engineering experience; or Master's degree in a related field and at least 18 years of experience • Proficiency with propulsion analysis software and tools • Strong command of MATLAB/Simulink, Excel, or similar scripting tools for data analysis • Experience with propulsion system design standards such as ASME, SAE, NASA, and ICAO • Excellent communication skills and ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders • Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time • United States Secret Clearance required for start • U.S. Citizenship required as a prerequisite for the clearance • Preferred: 25 years' experience in tactical solid rocket motor propulsion design and development • Preferred: Direct experience with next-generation propulsion technologies, including Highly Loaded and Solid Fuel Ram Jets • Preferred: Experience delivering consulting services in a matrixed, multi-client environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Relocation assistance may be available • Discretionary bonus may be available in addition to base pay • Annual bonuses designed to reward individual contributions and share in company results • Health insurance coverage • Life and disability insurance • Savings plan • Company-paid holidays • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business