At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on projects and programs that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to improve the present, invent the future, and have a lot of fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an endless drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they’re making history. 

On-Orbit Operations is a unique career path that offers an early career engineering to learn about all aspects of a space mission, including satellite subsystems, payloads, orbital dynamics and planning, and real time command and control of satellites.  Northrop Grumman’s Tactical Space Systems Division provides command/control, mission planning, flight dynamics, and sustaining engineering support for existing national security assets and future missions.  We are currently looking to fill either the Associate Flight Controller or Flight Controller positions on our operations team, and are able to train the right person to fill the role and accomplish the following duties:  

• Provide mission operations support to Satellite programs including flight control. 

• Support system maintenance activities such as procedure updates, architecture upkeep, and formal program milestones.  

• Work with systems engineers to conduct anomaly review board investigations as necessary.  

• Conduct testing using simulators and resolve discrepancies. 

• Develop and test command procedures, telemetry pages, and other products derived from vendor provided documentation 

• Support operations readiness activities including configuration control board and other customer meetings 

• Support operations, including shift work which will include 12 hour and night shifts 

• Monitor vehicle state of health across all subsystems and perform short and long-term telemetry trending.  

• Track space vehicle configuration, to include both hardware, software, and configurable item parameters.  

• Make modifications to existing operations procedures to incorporate lessons learned from in-flight performance.  Develop new procedures as required.  

• Provide status reporting through both the functional and program reporting branches. 

• Maintain standards associated with the established Integrated/Developmental Operations functional group processes. 

• Support internal and external customer meetings through proficient verbal and documented (MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel) communications. 

• May require travel ~ 10 of the time for support of customer or backup mission operations center. 

Basic Qualifications:  
 
A candidate, regardless of age and hiring source, must meet ALL of the below criteria. The candidate must: 

• Be completing (Bachelor’s or Masters) from an accredited institution. (equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree) 

• US Citizen 

• Basic scripting experience (e.g. PERL, STOL, Python) 

• Ability to work weekends and holidays 

• Ability to support night shift 

• Ability to support 100 on site work in Colorado Springs, CO 

• Existing Top Secret/SCI clearance required at time of application 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.7/4.0 or higher 

• Prior experience conducting on-orbit mission operations 

• Experience working on government systems and/or government process environment 

• Experience with at least one S/C Subsystem (ADCS, CDH, COMM, EPDS, Thermal, FSW). 

• Experience in ground system update and/or maintenance 

• Experience operating Tactical Space Systems bus product lines is strongly desired. 

• Experience using Tactical Space Systems ground software products is strongly desired. 

 Associate Spacecraft Operation Salary Range

• Dulles, VA $67,400 - $101,000
• Gilbert, AZ $58,200 - $87,200

 Spacecraft Operation Salary Range

• Dulles, VA $81,300 - $121,900
• Gilbert, AZ $70,200 - $105,400

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