Industrial Engineering Manager 2

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 127,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman in Elkton, MD seeks an Industrial Engineering Manager 2 to lead and mentor a high-performing IE team. You will steer analysis, design of operations, and layouts to enhance efficiency and throughput while championing safety, cost, and quality objectives.

You will standardize methods, deploy CORE/Tableau/MES data, and oversee capacity planning, scheduling, and continuous improvement initiatives across plant operations. U.S. citizenship and Secret clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering or related STEM field with 10+ years of experience.
• Master’s degree with 8+ years of experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience.
• Strong industrial engineering and operations background with impact in manufacturing and production environments.
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance, US citizenship is a pre-requisite.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and mentor a high-performing industrial engineering team supporting plant and production operations; set priorities, goals, and performance expectations for the group.
• Provide strategic direction for analysis and design of operations, optimizing workflows and standards base development, and equipment layouts to improve efficiency, throughput, and bottleneck removal; review and approve major recommendations.
• Own and govern methods and standards that maximize utilization of production facilities, equipment, and personnel; ensure consistent deployment across the site.
• Sponsor and oversee studies in cost control, cost reduction, inventory control, quality improvement, and production record systems; translate findings into practical, implemented solutions with measurable impact.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives using lean tools and drive design for manufacturing improvements to remove roadblocks and ensure safety, schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
• Set expectations and standardize use of CORE, Tableau, MES data, and simulation tools to develop visual shop metrics and drive data-based decisions, manpower forecasting, and improvement roadmaps.
• Direct the development and implementation of operating method and facility changes; integrate accident-prevention and safety improvements into all IE activities.
• Lead cross-functional workshops and training to standardize practices across manufacturing, facilities, safety, quality, and supply chain.

Skills

Leadership

Industrial engineering

Communication

Security clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering or related STEM field

Master’s degree plus 8+ years of experience

Tools

Tableau

MES

FlexSim

VSM

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description 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. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman is in need of an Industrial Engineering Manager 2 to work at its Elkton, Maryland facility.

Northrop Grumman Propulsion Systems and Controls (PS&C) facility in Elkton, Maryland began solid-propellant rocket operations in 1948. Today, the Elkton PS&C facility designs, develops, and produces solid-propellant propulsion and ordnance systems in programs professionally managed for a wide variety of Government and commercial customers. The facility also serves as the hub for offsite engineering and test facilities in Ronkonkoma, NY and Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Elkton, Maryland is located on the Upper Chesapeake Bay, midway between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Discover charming small towns, parks with miles of trails, specialty and antique shops, award winning restaurants, and inns. You can hike, bike, camp, bird watch, ride horseback, or drop a fishing line. Five rivers, Chesapeake Bay and the C&D Canal can be explored by boat or by land. Experience panoramic views from Turkey Point Lighthouse on a bluff overlooking the Bay, or from the banks of the C&D Canal where ships from around the globe cruise. https://www.ccgov.org/government/tourism

Core Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and mentor a high-performing industrial engineering team supporting plant and production operations; set priorities, goals, and performance expectations for the group.
• Provide strategic direction for analysis and design of operations, optimizing workflows and standards base development, and equipment layouts (VSM, line balancing, crew cycling, manufacturing execution/recovery planning, capacity/utilization) to improve efficiency, throughput, and bottleneck removal; review and approve major recommendations.
• Own and govern methods and standards that maximize utilization of production facilities, equipment, and personnel (manpower planning, skill matrices, recovery scheduling, TPM/L2L concepts), ensuring consistent deployment across the site.
• Sponsor and oversee studies in cost control, cost reduction, inventory control, quality improvement, and production record systems; ensure teams translate findings into practical, implemented solutions with measurable impact.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives, proven knowledge and success using lean tools (current and future state value stream mapping, Kaizen/AIW, 5S/POU, standard work, TPM, RCCA/defect analysis) and drive design for manufacturing improvements to remove roadblocks and ensure alignment with safety, schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
• Set expectations and standardize use of CORE, Tableau, MES data, and simulation tools (e.g., FlexSim) to develop visual shop metrics (including uptime metrics for critical equipment) and drive data-based decisions, manpower forecasting, and improvement roadmaps; steward the site’s capacity and utilization modeling capability.
• Direct the development and implementation of operating method and facility changes; provide leadership to integrate accident-prevention and safety improvements into all industrial engineering activities.
• Lead cross-functional workshops and training, ensuring standardized practices are adopted and sustained across manufacturing, facilities, safety, quality, and supply chain.
• Provide guidance in defining the vision for manufacturing systems architectures; prioritize and sponsor system and workflow improvements that enable data-driven decisions and shop-systems maturity.
• Provide management oversight of realistic scheduling and capacity-based site planning and capital-planning efforts (including data mining, ROI/risk justification, and business-case development), ensure effective application of earned-value management (CPI, SPI, TCPI) to monitor schedule and cost performance and support accurate ETC/EAC development, and guide the preparation of refined BOEs for proposals based on throughput, capacity, and capability analyses.
• undefined Provide management oversight to optimize delivery routes, packaging, and point-of-use logistics using lean solutions, and develop min/max inventory logic for parts consumption to support efficient, continuous material flow.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering or related STEM field plus 10 or more years of relevant industrial or manufacturing engineering experience.
• Will consider those with a master’s degree and 8 or more years of relevant industrial or manufacturing engineering experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience.
• Strong industrial engineering and operations background with demonstrated impact in manufacturing and production environments (standards development, workflow analysis, line balancing, layout optimization, simulation, statistical analysis, forecasting), and a track record of directing engineering or manufacturing teams, setting clear-concise priorities, and driving closure on actions.
• Proven ability to translate analytical results into practical, implemented improvements in production operations.
• Regularly applies ingenuity and creativity to resolve novel or high-impact issues in manufacturing, cost, quality and safety performance.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical approaches, influence cross functional teams, and prioritize high-impact improvements.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; able to interface effectively at all levels of the organization (i.e provides ongoing and immediate feedback, open sharing of information and knowledge).
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance, US citizenship is a pre-requisite.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret or higher clearance.
• Experience in working in an aerospace manufacturing environment.
• This position falls under a Federal Explosives License issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for this location.
• Candidates hired into this role will be required to complete and submit an Employee Possessor Questionnaire to ATF for approval to be a possessor.

Primary Level Salary Range

Primary Level Salary Range: $127,100.00 - $190,700.00 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.

Benefits

• health insurance coverage
• life and disability insurance
• savings plan
• Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

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.

For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO.

U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

We are a pioneering company. With careers across all areas: air, cyber, land, sea and space - our 90,000 employees work as one to defend and define the future. Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will give you every opportunity to do your best work. Working together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines, we share a drive to push the boundaries of science, technology and engineering to meet the ever evolving needs of our customers worldwide.