Position
Electrical Engineer – Manufacturing – Infrared Countermeasures (IRCM) – Onsite, Rolling Meadows, IL. No relocation assistance. Clearance required: Secret. Travel required: Yes, 10% of the time.
Responsibilities
- Identify and implement improvements and corrective actions across products and processes.
- Analyze test failures and failure data to identify trends; create failure analysis materials such as charts, quad charts, and customer presentations.
- Lead root cause investigations and implement corrective actions.
- Analyze metrics (yields, touch time/test time) to identify continuous improvement opportunities; optimize processes to reduce cost and increase throughput.
- Perform hands‑on troubleshooting of lasers, turrets/transmitters, ultraviolet sensors, infrared sensors, system processors, and associated test equipment and systems.
- Contribute to research, design, development, and test activities for a variety of electronic equipment and systems.
- Support the production floor and test technicians with timely technical guidance.
- Lead and support Non‑Recurring (NRE) projects, including test station design, drawings and validations, and development testing.
- Work with suppliers to resolve technical hardware issues.
- Execute hardware integration and test activities.
- Create and maintain engineering documentation, including change notices, parts lists, bills of materials, test reports, and test procedures.
- Coordinate with suppliers and contract manufacturers (CMs) on test readiness, escapes, and quality improvements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related STEM field.
- Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience.
- Experience with data analysis and root cause/corrective action.
- Experience with Microsoft Office.
- Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance.
- U.S. Citizenship required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading projects.
- Experience presenting to key stakeholders.
- Experience with Python and/or C#.
- Experience coding scripts/automation.
- Experience with lasers and optics.
Benefits
Health Plan, Savings Plan, Paid Time Off, Education Assistance, Training and Development, 9/80 Work Schedule (where available), and additional benefits.
Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO.