Value Stream Manufacturing Leader

Northrop Grumman; Oxnard (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Value Stream Leader (VSL) Manufacturing Manager to command a multi-disciplined operations team for all production activities in Oxnard, CA. The VSL partners with program management to plan, manage, and balance operations delivering program commitments.

The role requires leading daily management standards for safety, quality, delivery, and cost, plus staffing and resource planning, capital project proposals, and continuous improvement across value streams.

Qualifications

• 9 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree; 7 years of relevant experience with a Masters' degree; 0 years of relevant experience with a PhD; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Experience managing people, programs and product lines
• Knowledge and experience developing and executing process standards, and executing process standards focused on product area value streams and risk management identification and mitigation
• Ability to solve problems and drive continuous improvements
• Ability to work flexible schedule, which may include evenings and/or weekends
• Ability to obtain a security clearance
• Basic understanding of Microsoft Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily management standards for SQDEC
• Leads a multi-disciplined manufacturing operation team
• Conducts periodic performance reviews for staff
• Perform regular 1:1 with direct reports
• Ownership for effective hand-offs through all functional and process center areas
• Execute and continuously improve daily management processes and communicate/escalate key issues to leadership and throughout the organization
• Collaborate and coordinate with functional value streams, process centers, functional leaders and business support functions to achieve product and site goals via sharing of resources, tools, equipment, and processes
• Develop value stream hiring plans, onboarding, retention, and training plans in support of business needs
• Ensures staffing needs are identified in conjunction with program management
• Works with functions to ensure appropriate staffing is assigned
• Works with program management and the functions to reconcile resource conflicts
• Identify and develop business cases for capital project plans to support the value stream execution and growth, in collaboration with programs and manufacturing engineering functions, and ensure continuous monitoring of projects to achieve performance/quality, delivery, and budget commitments
• Own Value Stream operations resource management, escalation, prioritization, and conflict resolution decisions
• Review NPI and CI process releases for implementation feasibility, effectivity, applicable training requirements, and rollout plan
• Strengthen the manufacturing operations team through strategies, providing coaching and personnel development with a focus on ownership, leadership and employee development, ensuring disciplined approaches are defined and executed
• Support customer proposals through generation of estimates, identification of operational risks & opportunities, and identification of resource conflicts to ensure defendable basis of estimates for labor and schedule durations
• Plans, organizes and responsible for production schedules
• Provides direction to process improvement activities impacting the Value Stream
• Oversee direct reports training requirements
• Travel as needed to support programs, training, or other needs
• Drive the Value Stream Quality Management (Corrective Action Boards, Counter Measures, and RCCAs)
• Report monthly Value Stream Health Check (KPI) to senior leadership
• Participate in monthly Program Reviews
• Manage overhead and direct labor yield (DLY) rates

Skills

People management

Program management

Product line management

Process standards

Risk management

Problem solving

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Microsoft Project

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Value Stream Leader (VSL) Manufacturing Manager to command a multi-disciplined operations team for all production activities in Oxnard, CA. The VSL partners with program management to plan, manage, and balance operations delivering program commitments.

The role requires leading daily management standards for safety, quality, delivery, and cost, plus staffing and resource planning, capital project proposals, and continuous improvement across value streams.