Principal/sr. Principal Manufacturing Engineer Level 3/4

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Iuka, MS +1 · Material/Process

Manufacturing Engineer role at Northrop Grumman focused on improving processes in a high-volume, high-mix production environment for composite aerospace components. Responsibilities include collaborating with integrated teams, troubleshooting production issues, performing root cause analysis, and authoring/auditing work instructions. Requires a STEM Bachelor's degree and experience in manufacturing or related engineering fields, with a Secret clearance required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate within an Integrated Product Team (IPT) to develop and implement process improvements as well as support site initiatives.
  2. Work closely with manufacturing personnel in the highly automated production of composite aerospace components.
  3. Author, modify, and audit shop floor electronic work instructions (EWIs).
  4. Perform root cause and corrective action (RCCA) activities to permanently eliminate defects.
  5. Troubleshoot production/equipment/program/tooling issues and implementing improvements and solutions.

Skills

Required

  • STEM Bachelor's degree
  • Manufacturing/Quality/Production/Industrial/Process/Mechanical/Aerospace/Aeronautics engineering experience
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • Outlook
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret level clearance
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (PAR)

Nice to have

  • composite manufacturing
  • Active DoD Clearance
  • engineering drawings and specifications
  • geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
  • Fanuc or similar robots
  • Catia V5 or similar CAD software
  • Solumina G8 or similar
  • root cause / corrective action processes and techniques
  • RCCA tools such as Five Why, Pareto, fishbone, etc.
  • drafting, maintaining, and modifying work instructions and/or process specification

What the JD emphasized

  • DoD Secret level clearance
  • Special Program Access (PAR)
  • Secret clearance