Northrop Grumman Mission Enabling Products Business Unit designs, manufactures and operates subsystems supporting spacecraft for communications, imaging, scientific, exploration and national security space applications. The Group is a leading supplier of space components that power and enable satellites of all classes, provides technical engineering services to government agencies and laboratories, and is developing exciting new satellite servicing and advanced space flight technologies

The Integrated Thermal Systems (ITS) Operating Unit is the world leader in two-phase thermal management of spacecraft and has more than 30 years of experience designing and manufacturing space-qualified products for various government, military, civil and commercial customers (Legacy Swales Aerospace). We have the broadest portfolio of thermal solutions in the business and more flight heritage than any of our competitors. We tackle the industry's most challenging spacecraft thermal control problems and have the market differentiating capability of taking systems from concept, through design, thermal component fabrication, integration into honeycomb composite structure and through system level testing all on-site with no subcontractors.
Capabilities include design, manufacture, testing and integration of complete two-phase thermal-control systems such as heat pipes (-260 C to +175 C); heat pipe radiators and structural equipment panels; two-phase-loop heat pipes (LHPs); deployable radiator assemblies; mechanically pumped single phase liquid cooling, phase-change thermal storage materials (PCM); multi-layer insulation (MLI) blankets; cryogenic cooling applications; and integrated thermal composite structures.
Our business is growing. We currently operate out of a stand-alone facility in Beltsville Maryland with plans to move to a new state of the art facility (currently under construction) in Hanover, Maryland in 2025.

Our ITS team is currently seeking a Thermal Technology Manager 1 to lead the team of 4-6 Consulting and Senior Thermal Engineers that support and advance the two-phase Thermal Technology behind our products.
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Primary Responsibilities:
Working manager role that will be approximately 50% direct program support and 50% indirect management
Management Responsibilities:

Day-to-day functional management of the Thermal Technology team

* Workload balancing and coordination of test schedules

* Organization of Technology databases and repositories

* Tools management and control

Succession planning for the Thermal Technology Team including:

Organizing and documenting tribal knowledge

* Generating development plans and tracking progress / assessing performance of new talent

* Direct hiring of Thermal Technology staff as required

* Supporting OU technology roadmap development

Individual Responsibilities:

Directly contributing as a Thermal Technologist as required to fill gaps / back-stop the team

* Directly contributing to program requirements management

* Direct Program Management responsibility for active IRAD projects

* Direct Program Management responsibility for a small number of Technology focused programs

Basic Qualifications:

STEM Bachelors Degree with 10+ years experience in Mechanical engineering or related field; STEM Masters degree with 8+ years experience in Mechanical engineering or related field; PhD with 6+ years experience in Mechanical engineering or related field.

* 5+ years leadership experience.

* Program Management or IPT Experience (as a primary role)

* Professional Aerospace Thermal Engineering experience.

* Ability to obtain a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

15+ years of direct Thermal engineering experience
Education thermodynamics, physics and fluid mechanics.

* Fundamental understanding of space flight thermal system designs.

* Demonstrated ability to apply fundamental physics principles to understand and solve problems within applications, generate theoretical models of proposed solutions to generate predictions and ultimately correlate model predictions with physical hardware testing

* Experience with two phase thermal control systems

* Aerospace hardware manufacturing

* Thermal Systems testing experience

* Management of teams (direct or indirect)

Salary Range: *$115,000 - $172,600
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.
Employees may be eligible for 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 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. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.