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Senior Principal Logistics Management Analyst

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. We are looking for a Logistics Management Analyst or Principal Logistics Management Analyst to join our team and provide on-site support for the B-1 Bomber offensive radar and low observable antenna systems at Tinker Air Force Base. You will become part of Northrop Grumman's Command and Control & Weapons Integration (CWI). CWI provides sustainment support for the US Air Force B-1 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 position may be located at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Dyess AFB Abilene TX, or Rapid City, SD.

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)
• Analyzes aircraft maintenance programs to determine effectiveness and creates written recommendations for increasing efficiency and effectiveness.
• Completes understanding and application of principles, concepts, practices, and standard airframes.
• Research Bill of Materials (BOMs), engineering parts lists, and Illustrated Parts Breakdown (IPBs).
• Provide recommendations on Technical Order (TO) and maintenance procedural development.
• Identify and document critical obsolescence data elements for items that impact longevity of LRUs, SRUs and piece-parts.
• Canvas manufacturers and vendors for obsolescence information related; maintain open, regular communication to ensure proactive obsolescence identification.
• Assess and provide overall health assessment of systems within the overall scope of effort; provide detailed assessments of items impacting systems negatively.
• Perform trade-study analysis for obsolescence resolutions including cost-benefits, lifetime buy benefits, technical data modification effort, system impact, non-recurring engineering effort and complexity factor.
• Identify and define resolution recommendations; grade resolutions based on based on cost-benefit, mission impact and sustainability for life of system.
• Provide preferred resolutions that are thoroughly researched and provide the customer a clear path and a direct comparison to less favorable resolutions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have one of the following:
  • Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with a minimum of 8 years' experience
  • Master's degree in STEM discipline with a minimum of 6 years of experience
  • An additional 4 years of direct relevant experience may be considered in lieu of the degree requirement.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) secret security clearance.
• Ability to obtain/maintain access to work on-site in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Dyess AFB Abilene TX, or Rapid City, SD.
• Excellent communications skills - work with multiple departments to solve problems.
• Basic knowledge of A-TEAM, BLADE, ESCAPE, AVCOM, LDMS, TOAP, ETIMS, WebFLIS, and FEDMALL
• Working knowledge of engineering drawings, BOMs and maintenance parts lists
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Logistics experience with solving DMSMS issues and providing suitable resolutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance (or higher).
• Knowledge of B-1 maintenance/sustainment activity
• Knowledge of Military Specifications, Contract Data Requirements Lists (CDRLs), Data Item Descriptions (DIDs) and other related technical and contractual documents.
• Significant experience in military, government, commercial aerospace industry (e.g., aviation/equipment maintenance, aircraft operations, or commercial industrial technology companies)
• Experience with reading and understanding technical data (e.g., Technical Orders, Engineering Drawings, Parts Lists, Bills of Material, Engineering Specifications, etc.)
• A working understanding of government aircraft maintenance and supply processes/systems.
• Extensive experience, thorough understanding, and ability to mine, analyze, sort, and filter, data, and information from Government Supply Chain Legacy Systems (e.g., D035, Stock Control System; D043, Air Force Interchangeability and Substitution System; D200, Requirements Management System; Purchase request processing System (PRPS), and Contract Repair Management System (CRMS).
• Extensive experience, thorough understanding, and working knowledge of Depot Supply Chain Management processes, Automated Budget Compilation System (ABCS), management of end item buy and repair requirements, knowledge/experience with shop-process, workflow, and quality assurance requirements related to US Air Force/military supply system processes and procedures
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and be proficient with Microsoft products.

Primary Level Salary Range: $87,400.00 - $131,200.00 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. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.