Manager General Manufacturing 2

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

Manager of General Manufacturing 2 at Northrop Grumman, responsible for overseeing production processes, managing a team of technicians, ensuring quality standards, and optimizing production for aircraft manufacturing. This role requires leadership experience and a focus on continuous improvement in safety, delivery, quality, and cost.

What you'd actually do

  1. Oversee the daily production and manufacturing operations of 15-20 technicians
  2. Assist the site leader in day-to-day operations activities and the ability to act in their absence
  3. Coordinate and lead operations start up meeting
  4. Daily resource planning to meet customer/schedule demand
  5. Collaborate with production scheduling to meet schedule requirements

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree and 5 years experience, or an Associate’s degree with additional 7 years experience as specified below, or High School Diploma or equivalent GED with additional 9 years experience as specified below
  • Related experience in production experience in aerospace, aviation, automotive, military, production/manufacturing, production planning, manufacturing data analysis and/or related environment
  • 2 years leadership (management experience may be required based on SOW)

Nice to have

  • Active Secret DoD clearance
  • Experience within aerospace manufacturing
  • Leadership experience in a work environment (e.g. Group Lead, Supervisor, etc.)
  • Experience supervising teams of 10+ employees
  • Understanding of SQDEC (safety, quality, employee, delivery, and cost) KPIs
  • Familiar with manufacturing processes and material flow
  • Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, Project)
  • Experience with composite manufacturing, bonding, drilling
  • Demonstrable capability of working with minimal direction, independently determining, and developing technical objectives of assignments, and presenting work upon completion at high quality

What the JD emphasized

  • cannot be performed remotely due to the nature of the role
  • Supervisory or management responsibilities for more than one functional area in the Manufacturing and Production job family.