Job Description

Description

Climb to new heights on your journey when you start defining possible with Northrop Grumman. Enjoy a purposeful career in aeronautics that is crucial to the way we connect and protect our world across land, sea, and air. Bring your experience and take advantage of this opportunity to discover how you can start to push past possible and achieve your goals today! Enjoy a diverse, collaborative environment with professionals across the nation ready to help launch your career.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal Configuration Analyst to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, Florida.

The Configuration Analyst will be responsible for supporting Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems (NGAS) Joint STARS program

Essential Functions:

* Establish and maintain configuration management libraries to include document, software, and hardware configuration items (using tools such as JIRA, BitBucket, SharePoint, DOORS)

* Facilitate change boards including configuration control and technical review boards

* Maintain configuration control to include creation, maintenance, and shipping of physical media as necessary

* Plan and coordinate preparations of project documentation such as engineering drawings, production specifications and schedules, and contract modifications, to ensure customer contract requirements are met

* Reviews contract to determine documentation required for each phase of project, applying knowledge of engineering and manufacturing processes

* Analyzes proposed changes of product design to determine effect on overall product and system

* Coordinates modification records for management control

* Establishes change orders and prepares for change authorization and documentation by company and subcontractor

* Reviews and analyzes released engineering change data and coordinates changes with engineering, quality, support, manufacturing, and engineering data control activities

* Supports program configuration and data management requirements

We offer flexible work arrangements, great learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.

Qualification

Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelors degree from an accredited university and at least 6 years of relevant experience OR

* Masters degree from an accredited university and at least 4 years of relevant experience

* 11+ years of relevant experience can be considered in lieu of education

* Experience using Microsoft Office Tools and SharePoint

* Experience working with DoD contracts

Preferred Qualifications for Principal Systems Engineer:

* Understanding of configuration management principles/ best practices to include configuration status accounting

* DOORS configuration management experience

* Atlassian JIRA administration experience