Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Material/Process

This role focuses on developing and improving manufacturing processes for marine launcher systems, including assembly, machining, and welding. It involves creating tooling, optimizing layouts, developing work instructions, and supporting testing. The role requires a STEM degree and experience in continuous improvement and technical writing. It is not directly AI/ML related.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop new processes, improve existing manufacturing processes, and develop the required tooling and fixtures with an excellent team of experienced assembly mechanics, machinists, welders and engineers.
  2. Evaluate existing manufacturing processes and systems to reduce cost, improve sustainability and develop best practices within the manufacturing environment.
  3. Develop efficient process flows and sequences of operations, optimized production area layouts, manage bills of materials, create detailed work instructions, process procedures and tooling requirements with emphasis on safety, foreign object elimination and equipment/system maintenance.
  4. Support continuous improvement initiatives and implementation of new capital equipment for establishing expanded production processes.
  5. Select roles will also support final acceptance testing of product and provide technical support to test facility operation as necessary.

Skills

Required

  • STEM degree
  • 5 years of relevant work experience
  • read and interpret engineering drawings
  • continuous improvement
  • technical writing
  • US Citizenship

Nice to have

  • U.S. Government contracts and forms
  • high-value assemblies
  • fabrication, welding or machining