On-Orbit Execution & Planning Engineer

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a On-Orbit Execution & Planning Engineer Level 3 or Level 4 to join our team in Colorado Springs, CO. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.

This candidate will be a part of the Execution Planning Team working collaboratively with government customers and operators to demonstrate and develop plans to increase the effectiveness of the capabilities. This candidate will have basic knowledge of dynamic satellite operations and Rendezvous Proximity and Operations (RPO) with preferred experience executing the missions on orbit. This candidate will closely work with the On-Orbit Test Team, Systems Engineering and Integration IPT lead, and nominal and campaign operations team to plan, deconflict, and execution risk reduction activities for system effectiveness.

This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

Your mission, should you choose to accept:

Provide technical solutions to enable the end state of the Mission Execution Planning Team against dynamic priorities and objectives in support of system effectiveness evaluations

Contribute to design, planning, and execution of mission enabling risk reduction activities with customer and end user community

Support the design, planning, and execution of activities within the end user community

Support modeling and simulation of risk reduction activities with simulation capabilities and generate reports and assessments in support of on-orbit execution

Contribute as a subject matter expert in space vehicle hardware configuration and trajectory flight safety in support of activity readiness reviews and recommendations

Support assessments of systems effectiveness based on constellation design, space vehicle capability, ground system capability, and enterprise integrations

Perform system-of-system trades, modeling, simulation and analysis to assess space mission architecture alternatives for delivering a customer mission effect, data or capability as it fits within a broader campaign

This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.

This position can be filled at either a Level 3 or Level 4.

Basic Qualifications for Level 3

Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience or Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience or PhD with 1 year of professional experience

Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application

Basic understanding of rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) and the design of dynamic satellite trajectories against constraints, restraints, and objectives

Experience operating satellite systems in a dynamic environment

Basic Qualifications for Level 4:

Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience or Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience or PhD with 4 years of professional experience