Manager General Manufacturing 1

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Rolling Meadows, IL +1 · Manufacturing and Production

Manager for General Manufacturing at Northrop Grumman, focusing on electronic warfare hardware and systems. The role involves supervising assembly, repair, and rework of electronic components, interfacing with various engineering and management teams, and ensuring production efficiency and adherence to policies. Requires experience in manufacturing, production planning, and EVMS, with a Secret clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. The Manager, General Manufacturing 1 will supervise the factory hourly Precision Electro-Mechanical Assemblers, who assemble, disassemble, repair, rework, and reassemble both production and depot field return units using design drawing documentation and work instructions.
  2. This position will also interface with professionals from Sr. Operations Leadership, Operations Engineering, Project Management, Production Control and Product Quality disciplines.
  3. Additional responsibilities include establishing daily duties among direct reports based on customer need, monitoring production metrics to ensure tasks are completed efficiently and effectively, properly addressing production, personal, and performances concerns, enforcing company, manufacturing, and safety policies and procedures, productively coaching staff members for continuous professional development, and reassuring a positive work environment with team collaboration.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree with minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in manufacturing OR Master's Degree with 3 or more years of relevant work experience in manufacturing (An additional 4 years of relevant work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)
  • 2 or more years of experience with production planning and scheduling
  • EVMS (Earned Value Management Systems) and/or data analysis experience
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
  • US Citizenship required

Nice to have

  • Experience with the fundamentals of SAP / ERP
  • Demonstrated experience with CAM functions
  • Experience in Lean Manufacturing tools and techniques

What the JD emphasized

  • precision, safety, quality, and adherence to manufacturing processes are critical
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
  • US Citizenship required