Reliability Engineer- OKC

Our Aeronautics Systems Sector is seeking a Reliability Engineer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for support projects associated with the design and development of communication, navigation, radar, avionics, power and/or electrical systems architecture, components, circuits, and products or aircraft maintenance. The employee will research, develop, design, and test electrical components, equipment, systems, and products for defense systems or commercial purposes.

You will become part of Northrop Grumman’s Lifecycle Sustainment and Modernization Solutions (LSMS). LSMS provides sustainment support for the US Air Force B-1 and B-2 Bombers, E-3 Sentry, Airborne Warning and Control System, and numerous other Government platforms. Our team members complete engineering, reverse engineering, and logistics solution efforts to solve complex obsolescence problems and ensure warfighter supportability. 

This Reliability Engineer will help develop, coordinate and conduct reliability, maintainability and availability studies and evaluations of engineering designs throughout the program life cycle (business capture, development, production and sustainment). This person will help support efforts within our LSMS area, to include technical planning, system integration, ground and flight testing, verification and validation, airworthiness, cost and risk, reliability / maintainability, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, coordinate and conduct reliability, maintainability and availability studies and evaluations of engineering design throughout the program life cycle (business capture, development, production and sustainment

• Provides reliability, availability, and maintainability guidance and leadership/support to various IPTs, ensuring program requirements and performances are understood

• Understand Statement of Work/program specification content and applicability to program implementation, e.g., reliability and availability requirements, requirement allocations and flow down to lower assembly levels.

• Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability

• Develops, coordinates, and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts

• Develops reliability math models and allocations, Reliability Block Diagrams, Reliability and Maintainability Program Plans

• Performs parts derating, reliability parts count/stress and process grades analysis and reliability simulations

• Assesses reliability data of fielded systems for the purpose of assessing and documenting RAM and Logistics metrics and reliability (cumulative and instantaneous) growth trends

• Performs reliability (MTBF, MTBCF, MTBUR, Ao, Am) analysis, maintainability and logistics (LRU, MTBM, MTTR, MDT, LDT, TAT) analysis, sparing analysis, and simulations which support military and industry standards

• Recommends design or test methods and statistical analysis (AMSAA Planning Model and Reliability Growth Curves, Bayesian, Weibayes, Monte Carlo, Exponential, Poisson, Binomial, Weibull, Duane, Crow-AMSAA, etc.) for achieving required levels of product and system reliability

• Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting reliability and maintainability

• Develops mathematical models to identify items posing excessive failure risks

• Proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or reliability processes

• Determines items requiring environmental testing and number of samples to obtain statistically valid data

• Develops FMECA to identify criticality levels based on failure rates and severity of the effects of failures

• Develops and performs Reliability and Maintainability Demonstrations, Fault Detection/Fault Isolation analysis, and Prognostic Health Management analysis

• Develops and executes ESS, ALT, and HALT plans and procedures and provide inputs from past experiences

• Leads FRACAS meetings, perform FRACAS data mining and trend analysis, failure analysis, corrective actions; develop technical materials for presentation to the Failure Review Board, Problem Report and Resolution Board, and Ad Hoc

• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.

• Contributes to the completion of milestones associated with specific projects and requirements

• Provides solutions to a variety of technical problems of increasing scope and complexity as assigned

• Support subcontractor evaluation, selection and coordinate activities with respect to reliability needs

• Prepare for, present at and participate in design reviews

• Effectively engage with external Customers and internal stakeholders

• Generate high quality work products on-schedule and on-budget

• Identify continuous improvement efforts as reliability engineering tasks are performed

• Support program Engineering Configuration Change Board (CCB) and Corrective Action Board (CAB)

• Ability to interpret Engineering drawings/schematics

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with a minimum of 2 years of engineering experience

• 2 years of industry experience related to reliability engineering in design and/or product sustainment

• Experiences with multiple modeling tools, such as ReliaSoft/RELEX Toolset (Reliability, Maintainability, OpSim, FMECA, Fault Tree, FRACAS, RGA, and Weibull++), AMSAA Models, VMETRIC, RAPTOR, etc.), used for reliability and sparing analysis

• Experience in: root cause analysis, test design/execution/data analysis as applicable to accelerated life, reliability growth, and reliability modeling

• Experience related to assessing and addressing R&M requirements for design development activities

• Experience developing R&M program plans for new systems or for sustainment of existing systems to include staff planning, scheduling, collecting historical data, establishing configuration control processes for large program data storage and R&M software tools analysis

• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secret security clearance and ability to obtain/maintain access to work on-site in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (No Relocation Provided)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Secret Clearance

• Excellent communications skills – work with multiple departments to solve problems

• Ability to interpret Engineering drawings/schematics

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.