Principal Industrial Engineer: Facility & Space Optimization

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 99,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking Principal/Senior Principal Industrial Engineers to drive facility governance, capacity planning, and space optimization across multiple sites in the U.S. You will translate demand signals into layouts and roadmaps, leveraging data-driven analyses to maximize space utilization and cost efficiency.

Roles require strong analytical skills, CAD/space planning experience, and collaboration across Manufacturing, Operations, Engineering, and Finance. U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related STEM field and 5+ years of relevant experience; Master’s preferred for Sr Principal.
• Experience with facility layout, capacity planning, space utilization, and production flow optimization.

Responsibilities

• Perform industrial engineering and space planning analyses, including facility recommendations, capacity models, space utilization studies, and production layouts.
• Develop models and documentation for facility roadmaps and standard work to support governance reviews.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop actionable facility options aligned to sector strategy.
• Apply facility/industrial engineering methods to improve production flow and space utilization.
• Prepare and present options with trade-offs to leadership.
• Support continuous improvement of the Facility Governance Model.

Skills

Facility layout

Capacity planning

Space utilization

Production flow optimization

Industrial engineering tools

CAD software

Space planning tools

Data analysis (Excel/BI)

Education

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

Tools

CAD

Space planning tools

BI/analytics tools

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking Principal/Senior Principal Industrial Engineers to drive facility governance, capacity planning, and space optimization across multiple sites in the U.S. You will translate demand signals into layouts and roadmaps, leveraging data-driven analyses to maximize space utilization and cost efficiency.

Roles require strong analytical skills, CAD/space planning experience, and collaboration across Manufacturing, Operations, Engineering, and Finance. U.S.