Manager Facilities Engineering 2

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon.

We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Weapons Systems is currently seeking Manager Facilities Engineering 2 for our Elkton, Maryland location.

The Northrop Grumman Propulsion Systems and Controls (PS&C) facility in Elkton, Maryland began solid-propellant rocket operations in 1948. Today, the Elkton PS&C facility designs, develops, and produces solid-propellant propulsion and ordnance systems in programs professionally managed for a wide variety of Government and commercial customers.

The facility also serves as the hub for offsite engineering and test facilities in Ronkonkoma, NY, Palm Beach Gardens, FL and San Jose, CA.

Job Summary

As the Manager Facilities Engineering 2, you will lead the Facilities Engineering organization supporting the Elkton propulsion manufacturing campus.

Reporting to the Manager Facilities Engineering 3, you will provide objective-oriented direction, technical leadership, and operational oversight for approximately 10 direct reports, including facilities engineering, electrical engineering, reliability engineering, and controls engineering.

You will be responsible for planning, designing, coordinating, and overseeing the reconfiguration, maintenance, alteration, and improvement of buildings, structures, equipment, machinery, utilities, and other facilities. You will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for facilities capital projects, infrastructure improvements, construction coordination, technical problem solving, and facility support activities.

Success in this role requires the ability to manage competing priorities, establish clear objectives, develop talent, coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, and ensure that projects and work packages are completed safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with applicable technical, quality, security, and regulatory requirements.

Core Technical Responsibilities:

• Facilities Engineering Leadership and Team Management
• Directly supervise and manage approximately 10 facilities engineering personnel
• Establish objectives, priorities, assignments, performance expectations, and measures of success for the organization.
• Provide technical and objective-oriented direction to subordinates using management guidance, department procedures, and general company practices.
• Conduct regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, development planning, and career discussions.
• Recruit, retain, mentor, and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary facilities engineering team.
• Encourage collaboration across electrical, mechanical, reliability, controls, construction, maintenance, operations, EHS, security, procurement, finance, and program organizations.
• Accomplish results through experienced exempt employees and technical leads who exercise appropriate latitude and independence.
• Facilities Planning, Design, and Project Execution
• Plan, design, and oversee the reconfiguration, maintenance, alteration, and improvement of equipment, machinery, buildings, structures, utilities, and other facilities.
• Lead facilities engineering work packages and projects from requirements development and feasibility through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Gather and evaluate facility and equipment specifications, operational requirements, company and government restrictions, required completion dates, risks, and construction feasibility.
• Coordinate with architecture and engineering firms, consultants, contractors, and internal technical organizations to develop design criteria, layouts, specifications, and detail drawings.
• Review design documents, technical requirements, contractor submittals, and change requests for completeness, constructability, safety, reliability, maintainability, and compliance.
• Balance project scope, schedule, cost, technical performance, quality, and operational impact across multiple concurrent activities
• Capital Project and Program Management
• Plan and manage capital and overhead facilities projects and related work packages.
• Prepare and review scopes of work, bid packages, estimates, schedules, procurement strategies, and contract requirements.
• Review and estimate design costs, including equipment, installation, labor, materials, site preparation, commissioning, and other related expenses.
• Monitor project performance against approved cost, schedule, technical, and quality objectives.
• Direct or coordinate inspections of construction and installation progress to ensure conformance with drawings, specifications, codes, and schedules.
• Manage risks, issues, changes, interfaces, and dependencies; escalate matters requiring senior leadership attention.
• Provide monthly and periodic status reports, including schedule performance, cost status, risks, accomplishments, and recovery actions.
• Ensure that assigned projects are completed on schedule and within budget.
• Technical Discipline Integration
• Provide leadership and coordination across facilities engineering disciplines, including mechanical, electrical, controls, reliability, civil, structural, utilities, building systems, and construction.
• Ensure that discipline-specific designs are integrated into safe, reliable, maintainable, and cost-effective facility solutions.
• Support the electrical, reliability, controls, and facilities engineering leads in resolving complex technical and operational issues.
• Provide direction when technical problems affect project schedules, facility operations, production, safety, or customer commitments.
• Serve as a facilities engineering advisor to the site regarding projects, technical tasks, operations, and infrastructure decisions.
• Construction, Installation, and Contractor Oversight
• Coordinate with contractors and vendors during construction, installation, equipment relocation, facility modification, and maintenance activities.
• Establish expectations for contractor performance, safety, quality, schedule adherence, documentation, and communication.
• Oversee field inspections, punch-list activities, commissioning, turnover, and closeout documentation.
• Ensure that construction and installation work conforms to approved drawings, specifications, applicable codes, safety practices, and site requirements.
• Resolve field discrepancies, design conflicts, requests for information, and unforeseen conditions.
• Support contract performance reviews, change-order evaluation, and corrective-action implementation.
• Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, and Continuous Improvement
• Coordinate with maintenance, reliability, controls, operations, and production organizations to improve facility availability and asset performance.
• Support preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, CMMS improvement, asset criticality evaluations, and lifecycle planning.
• Use reliability, work-order, cost, schedule, and facility-performance data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Support root-cause analysis, FMEA, RCM, fault-tree analysis, and corrective-action activities as