Principal/Sr. Principal System Safety Engineer

• Category: Environmental, Health & Safety
• Location: San Diego, California
• US Citizenship Required for this Position: Yes
• Clearance Type: Secret
• Telecommute: Yes –May Consider Occasional/Part Time Teleworking for this position
• Shift: 1st Shift
• Travel Required: Yes, 10 % of the Time
• Positions Available: 1
  

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field or an industry thought-leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission! We are looking for you to join our team as a System Saftey Engineer based out of San Diego, CA. As a System Saftey Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation. What You’ll get to Do: The responsibilities include management interfaces with manufacturing, reliability, logistics support, design engineering, quality assurance, test, and coordination with other safety programs and key participants in the company safety organization. The Safety Engineer will interface between system safety and other functional elements of the programs, as well as with other safety related disciplines (such as Environmental, occupational health, chemical, and biological) and will define the resources needed, to perform the system safety tasks required.
Key duties and responsibilities:

• As a Systems Safety Engineer, you will provide system safety subject matter expert advice on assigned programs.
• Assist in the management of new hazards realized in operation, maintenance, or arising from changes in the configuration, role and environment.
• Liaison with management and regulatory bodies, maintenance, engineering and customer agencies ensuring all design activities are carried out within the system safety framework.
• Prepare and deliver Hazard Analysis Documentation e.g. Hazard Assessment Reports and Safety Assessment Reports.
• Assist with the maintenance of System Safety Program Plans to ensure compliance with safety regulations.
• Assist and perform System Safety Hazard Assessments.
• Perform technical airworthiness risk analysis/management.
• Participate in systems safety engineering reviews.
• Assist with the facilitation and organization of the System Safety Working Groups.
• Liaison with other safety engineers and programs to ensure best practice and shared knowledge.
• Provide advice to Engineers regarding their responsibilities in accordance with the System Safety Program.
• Make recommendations for endorsement of treatments which may be implemented to reduce the risk caused by hazards.
• Conduct independent system safety analysis as deemed necessary.
• Provide training on System Safety Engineering processes and methodologies. This position may be filled at a higher grade based on the requirements below.
  

This position may be filled as a Principal or Sr. Principal System Saftey Engineer. Basic Qualifications for Principal System Safety Engineer • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering with 5 years of relevant experience; may consider an additional 4 years of experience in lieu of a degree.

• Knowledge of aircraft certification standards, MIL-STD-882, ARP4761 or other System Safety standards.
• Working knowledge of System Safety tools and techniques including Fault Tree Analysis.
• Experience in completing detailed risk analysis.
• Ability to work across multiple disciplines.

• Must have or ability to obtain DoD security clearance. Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal System Safety Engineer • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering with 9 years of relevant experience; may consider an additional 4 years of experience in lieu of a degree.

• Knowledge of aircraft certification standards, MIL-STD-882, ARP4761 or other System Safety standards.
• Working knowledge of System Safety tools and techniques including Fault Tree Analysis.
• Experience in completing detailed risk analysis.
• Ability to work across multiple disciplines.
• Must have or ability to obtain DoD security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in a STEM or related field • Experience with reliability engineering

• Current/Active Secret Clearance

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.