Northrop Grumman Aeronauctics has an opening for a Sr Principal Product Trainer to lead the Training & Training Systems technical discipline within the newly established Product Support CoTE. This position can be filled in either Melbourne, FL or El Segundo, CA onsite.
This key leadership role reports to the Product Support (PS) Logistics Support Manager S02 and is responsible for defining strategy to elevate technical excellence across the Product Support Training technical discipline. The PS CoTE Product Trainer will unite programs, engineers, and technical experts under a shared set of tools, processes, and practices to ensure a consistent, cohesive, and collaborative approach across all AS sector programs. This position partners closely with leads to empower, equip, and train Training professionals to support current program and capture execution, NCTA efforts, and long-term business needs.
The selected candidate must demonstrate deep technical knowledge and expertise in Training Systems to serve at the focal point for Independent Reviews and proposal support. The Product Trainer will also support the execution of technical Product Support NCTA projects. The role requires an understanding of the following related PS technical disciplines: Prognostic Health Management, Supportable Low Observables (SLO), Technical Data, Support Hardware, Fleet & Field Support, and Product Support Management. They will own processes, tools, and training for the Training discipline, ensure process excellence and compliance in collaboration with program technical leaders spanning the full product life cycle across the portfolio of NGAS.
Key Responsibilities:
Support staff development, including skill training and career support; contributing to performance evaluations, overseeing the salary review process, and supervising employee development and mentoring efforts (including engagement strategies for higher performers and corrective actions for lower performers) and issue resolution (as needed)
Provide leadership and define strategic vision for technical priorities within Training discipline in the PS CoTE, aligned to long-term sector strategy
Partner with program discipline leads to understand program critical skill needs and gaps in engineering tools, processes, digital solutions, and technical training
Own all technical processes and manuals aligned to the discipline area, ensuring technical excellence and technical compliance
Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of new/modified discipline processes with a goal to strengthen technical excellence and workforce capabilities that result in improved business results
Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of discipline tools, ensuring tools are integrated into the discipline processes, support overall digital solutions, are relevant, scalable, and interoperable across programs and associated training material to support effective usage
Develop discipline training framework and technical content to enable a prepared and high performing work force. Develop metrics and monitor training effectiveness in collaboration with program execution teams
Collaborate with Sector Integration and Operations organizations to translate tool, process and training needs into funded initiatives and frameworks and to monitor and measure effectiveness
Partner with programs for adoption of tools, processes, digital solutions and training
Oversee and allocate the Training discipline’s NCTA and indirect budgets to strengthen technical excellence; advance tools, processes, and workforce capabilities; and generate measurable impact on program performance and future competitiveness
Represent the Training discipline in sector-wide and enterprise-wide technical development efforts related to technical development, technical career pathing, technical training, and critical skills investment
Participate in sector-level talent reviews and succession planning to maintain discipline-wide visibility into talent strengths, gaps, and growth opportunities
Partner with leads to understand program critical skill needs and collaborate with SI&O to translate skill needs into funded technical training programs and onboarding frameworks
Build and sustain a strong discipline Community of Practice (CoP), ensuring alignment of sub-CoPs, strategies, and priorities while fostering collaboration across programs and sub-disciplines
Contribute technical expertise and process leadership in major proposal reviews, program reviews, independent technical reviews, program stand-up reviews, NCTA and indirect activities, and other sector-wide improvement efforts
Act as a trusted advisor to help resolve technical performance shortfalls through root cause analysis, corrective action planning, long-term verification of improvement
Capture, share, and embed lessons learned and best practices across programs to continuously raise the bar for technical performance
Promote Knowledge Management and Transfer
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of military and/or professional leadership experience OR Master's Degree with 6 years of experience OR PhD with 4 years of experience.
Must have an active U.S. Government Secret clearance that is in-scope (granted or renewed in the last 6 years) and eligibility for TS/SCI
Must be able to attain and maintain Special Program Access
The candidate must possess excellent leadership skills, and written communication skills
Expertise in establishing engineering standards, tools, and processes at scale
Minimum 6 years of Training leadership/management experience in an integrated product team environment leading agile development teams
Possess a working knowledge of all twelve Product Support technical disciplines
Working knowledge of DoD Logistics / Sustainment / MRO customers and Northrop Grumman military aircraft types and mission and execution
Participated as a key team member in a major technical milestone review to include: Independent Review Teams (IRTs), Non-Advocate Reviews (NARs), or color team reviews
Must have working knowledge of customer compliance documents, government instructions, and government standards
Preferred Qualifications:
MS or MBA degree
Program management experience
Prior field service or military experience
Hands-on experience with structural and low Observable repair
Experience working across the total program lifecycle with emphasis on influencing design to optimize the fielded support solution
Experience with or exposure to digital design initiatives and solutions to include Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Model Based Sustainment (MBS)
Continuous improvement mindset with experience leading process optimization
Strategic, systems-level thinker who can build alignment across functional and program boundaries
Experience in or engaging with the DoD Logistics / Sustainment / MRO customer community and/or supporting military aircraft missions
Experience in task analysis procedures and training systems products Design and development of curriculum for advanced technologies
Experience providing formal instructor training
Current Special Program Access