RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescription
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 appropriate.
- Lead or sponsor Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Ensure that lessons learned and technical knowledge are captured in procedures, standards, drawings, CMMS records, and engineering documentation.
- Compliance, Safety, Security, and Risk Management
- Ensure facilities engineering activities comply with applicable OSHA, NFPA, HOPs/HAZOPs, PSM, local building codes, environmental requirements, DoD standards, and company procedures.
- Support safe design reviews, hazard assessments, management-of-change activities, incident investigations, and audit responses.
- Coordinate with EHS and security organizations on facility projects, restricted areas, security systems, and operational requirements.
- Ensure that project teams and contractors appropriately address energetic-materials hazards, electrical safety, fire protection, equipment safeguards, and facility access requirements.
- Support corrective-action plans and verify that commitments are completed and documented.
- Stakeholder, Customer, and Organizational Liaison
- Maintain frequent contact with internal personnel and external customer representatives at various management levels.
- Conduct briefings and participate in technical meetings concerning operations, scheduling, project status, facility requirements, and contract-specific activities.
- Coordinate with manufacturing, program management, procurement, finance, EHS, security, IT, maintenance, real estate, sustainability, and external engineering and construction organizations.
- Represent Facilities Engineering in cross-functional forums and provide clear, timely communication of decisions, risks, and required actions.
- Build effective relationships with customers, vendors, contractors, and government stakeholders.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Industrial, Facilities Engineering, Building Science, or a related engineering or technical discipline.
- Minimum of 10 years of facilities engineering, construction, plant engineering, or related technical experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of project, program, or people leadership experience, including responsibility for directing technical personnel or multidisciplinary project teams.
- Demonstrated experience planning, designing, coordinating, or executing facilities projects involving buildings, structures, utilities, equipment, machinery, or infrastructure.
- Demonstrated experience managing project cost, schedule, technical performance, quality, risk, and contractor activities.
- Experience preparing or reviewing scopes of work, bid packages, cost estimates, schedules, design documents, technical specifications, and construction or installation plans.
- Experience directing or coordinating the work of engineers, technical personnel, contractors, or vendors.
- Strong working knowledge of construction execution, facility systems, engineering design practices, and contractor oversight.
- Ability to provide objective-oriented direction, establish priorities, resolve technical and operational issues, and accomplish results through subordinate or experienced exempt personnel.
- Strong communication, briefing, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
- Ability to work independently with general management direction and make decisions that support departmental and project objectives.
- Must be able to obtain a DoD Secret clearance; U.S. Citizenship is a prerequisite.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time to meet customers and vendors.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Professional Engineer license, Engineer-in-Training credential, or Project Management Professional certification.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary facilities engineering organizations or technical teams in an industrial, aerospace, defense, propulsion, or high-hazard manufacturing environment.
- Experience managing multimillion-dollar capital projects from concept through closeout.
- Experience with facility systems, industrial utilities, process equipment, electrical distribution, controls, reliability engineering, CMMS, or asset-management systems.
- Experience with Microsoft Project, Power BI, SharePoint, CMMS platforms, or other project and performance-management tools.
- Knowledge of OSHA, NFPA, HOPs/HAZOPs, PSM, DoD Unified Facilities Criteria, DoD 4145.26, ITAR/EAR, and applicable local building and environmental requirements.
- Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, root-cause analysis, FMEA, RCM, or other continuous-improvement methodologies.
- Demonstrated record of developing engineers, technical staff, and emerging leaders through coaching, feedback, mentoring, and career-development planning.
- Experience coordinating facility sustainability, energy-management, environmental, or infrastructure-resilience initiatives.
This position falls under a Federal Explosives License issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for this location. Candidates hired into this role will be required to complete and submit an Employee Possessor Questionnaire to ATF for approval to be a possessor.
This role places you at the heart of next‑generation propulsion systems that power national defense and space exploration. You will work with cutting‑edge manufacturing processes, high‑energy test cells and classified R&D laboratories, all while enjoying the lifestyle benefits of the Upper Chesapeake Bay - trails, water recreation, historic towns and a short commute to both Philadelphia and Baltimore. Northrop Grumman offers a global talent network, robust leadership‑development programs and access to advanced technical training, providing a clear path for career growth and personal fulfillment. If you are a technically accomplished, data‑driven facilities leader eager to drive reliability, sustainability and mission success for a world‑class propulsion manufacturing campus, we invite you to submit your résumé and a concise cover letter highlighting your most relevant capital‑project and operational achievements. Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Primary Level Salary Range: $139,800.00 - $209,800.00
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.
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 an Equal Opportunity 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 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.
