Dimension Control Technician Level 3/4

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Clearfield, UT +1 · Manufacturing and Production

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Dimension Control Technician (Level 3/4) to join their Tool Die Making team in Clearfield, UT. The role involves fabricating and assembling tooling, jigs, fixtures, and gauges, requiring precision and adherence to exacting tolerances. Responsibilities include planning work, setting up optical instruments for alignment checks, and developing holding devices. Candidates need experience with tool building, laser tracking in a manufacturing setting, and must be able to obtain DoD and SAP security clearances. Experience with metrology systems like laser trackers and scanners is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lay out, fabricate, and assemble a variety of standard and nonstandard major jigs, fixtures, tool masters, master tooling gauges, and related tooling involving compound angles and complex contours where the establishment and coordination to exacting tolerances of numerous tooling holes and reference points between several planes are required.
  2. Plan work to be performed and determines methods and sequence of operations working from tool design drawings or own designs.
  3. Sets up and operates optical instruments to check overall and detailed alignment, fit, or adjustment of assemblies.
  4. Develop and designs holding devices and jig and fixture details.
  5. Prepare operational sequences and shop drawings covering parts fabrication and assembly to be performed by others.

Skills

Required

  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • 4 years of related education and/or experience with tool building and laser tracking in a manufacturing environment (Level 3)
  • 6 years of related education and/or experience with tool building and laser tracking in a manufacturing environment (Level 4)
  • Experience devising reference systems and creating working build models
  • Ability to frequently move and position objects weighing 35 pounds and ascend and descend ladders
  • Ability to work inside and outside in a warehouse environment and a shop floor environment
  • Ability to work within MS applications i.e., MS Word, Excel, and Adobe PDF
  • Ability to obtain and maintain DoD Security Clearance
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance

Nice to have

  • Master level knowledge of multiple computer aided metrology systems such as laser trackers, articulated arms, scanners 6DoF (Six Degree of Freedom)
  • 6+ years of Tool and Die experience

What the JD emphasized

  • DoD Security Clearance
  • Special Access Program (SAP) clearance