Spacecraft Operations Flight Controller – Top Secret/SCI Clearance (Space/Satellite Systems)

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

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.

Essential Functions:

This position is for a technical role in Colorado Springs, CO (100% on site).  The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Provide mission operations support to Satellite programs including flight control.
• Support system maintenance activities such as procedure updates, architecture upkeep, and formal program milestones. 
• Work with systems engineers to conduct anomaly review board investigations as necessary. 
• Conduct testing using simulators and resolve discrepancies. 
• Develop and test command procedures, telemetry pages, and other products derived from vendor provided documentation
• Support operations readiness activities including configuration control board and other customer meetings
• Support 24×7 operations, which will require 12-hour shifts
• Monitor vehicle state of health across all subsystems and perform short and long-term telemetry trending. 
• Track space vehicle configuration, to include both hardware, software, and configurable item parameters. 
• Make modifications to existing operations procedures to incorporate lessons learned from in-flight performance.  Develop new procedures as required. 
• Provide status reporting through both the functional and program reporting branches.
• Maintain standards associated with the established Integrated/Developmental Operations functional group processes.
• Support internal and external customer meetings through proficient verbal and documented (MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel) communications.
• May require travel ~ 10% of the time for support of customer or backup mission operations center. 

*This position will require shift work including swing or night shift, and/or 12-hr shifts

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience
• U.S. citizen
• Active or current Top Secret / SCI Security Clearance required at time of application
• Ability to work within a group of diversified individuals with varying backgrounds to achieve mission success.
• Prior experience conducting on-orbit mission operations and resolving satellite and ground system anomalies.
• Experience writing technical documents for external customers
• Outstanding verbal and written communications skills, including ability to make persuasive presentations to external customers at milestone review
• Willingness and ability to support a 24/7 environment with shift work

Preferred Qualifications:

• Leadership experience within a diverse team of engineers/operators
• Ability to task and manage a group of diversified individuals with varying backgrounds to achieve mission success.
• Experience working on government systems and/or government process environment
• Experience with at least one S/C Subsystem (ADCS, CDH, COMM, EPDS, Thermal, FSW).
• Experience in ground system update and/or maintenance
• Experience operating Tactical Space Systems bus product lines is strongly desired.
• Experience using Tactical Space Systems ground software products is strongly desired.

Salary Range: $72,000.00 – $100,000.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate’s experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

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 http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.