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Join a pioneering company as a Principal/Sr. Principal Manufacturing Engineer, where you'll leverage your expertise to enhance manufacturing systems and processes. This role involves collaborating with experts, developing best practices, and ensuring efficient use of digital tools. You'll play a crucial part in the Sentinel program, working on innovative technologies that shape the future. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment, contributing to impactful projects while enjoying opportunities for professional growth. If you're ready to make a difference in a cutting-edge field, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
Requisition ID: R10178289
Category: Engineering
Location: Roy, Utah, United States of America | Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
Clearance Type: Secret
Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position
Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
Positions Available: 1
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. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work.
Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Principal / Sr. Principal Manufacturing Engineer. This position is located in Roy, UT and supports the Sentinel program.
What You’ll Get To Do:
This selected candidate supports the use of the SDS Engineering Tool Suite to enable horizontal collaboration from a Production Operations perspective. The selected candidate will use experiences in manufacturing to apply it to best practices in Manufacturing Systems to create efficiencies and connection of the digital thread. They will facilitate training in core systems and skill areas to teams and peers and interact with internal and external customers with respect to product planning, problem resolution, and process improvement.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Collaborate with a team of Subject Matter Experts through testing of the PLM/ERP/MES Systems and its integrations with other systems.
Develop, maintain, teach, and enforce process and procedures for Manufacturing Engineering and Production in core tools, CPLM/TcMfg. SAP/ERP, and MES systems.
Coordination with all teams to utilize SAP Material Resource Planning (MRP) effectively.
Enforce core system best practices to enable effective downstream use.
Lead implementation of new Business Processes related to PLM/ERP/MES and its integrated systems.
Support Manufacturing Engineering in Produce Product Package (PPP) creation and delivery.
Test PLM/ERP/MES when new development is released, and troubleshoot issues programs are seeing.
Create training and desktop instructions for best practices.
Assist in Proposal activity of new task orders and programs to utilize Production Systems.
Assist in stand up of new programs and task orders when using SDS Production System Architecture.
You’ll Bring These Qualifications:
Principal Deployment and Manufacturing Engineer: Bachelor's Degree in Science with 5 years of relevant work experience; Master's Degree with 3 years of relevant work experience; or PhD with 1 year of experience.
Sr. Principal Deployment and Manufacturing Engineer: Bachelor's Degree in Science with 8 years of relevant work experience; Master's Degree with 6 years of relevant work experience; or PhD with 4 years of experience.
4 additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree for either level.
Required for Both Levels:
Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application.
Minimum 3 years experience working in a digital manufacturing environment using core systems PLM/ERP/MES is a must.
Background in performing manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.
Minimum 3 years experience with SAP Material Requirements Planning (MRP).
Minimum 1 year experience in the performance of system integration testing.
Experience in a manufacturing setting.
Must be detail oriented, organized, and demonstrate a high sense of urgency.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Highly motivated self-starter, detail and quality oriented, and able to work independently.
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
Experience in Teamcenter Manufacturing (TcMfg).
Experience in CPLM.
Experience in SmartMES.
Experience with database analysis.
Experience in the creation of test plans.
Experience leading cross-functional teams.
Salary Range: $86,600 - $143,600
Salary Range 2: $107,800 - $178,800
Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance.