Sentinel - Manager Industrial Engineering 1 - 18680

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Roy, UT +1 · Material/Process

Manager for Industrial Engineering team focused on production operations analytics and estimating for defense programs, specifically Sentinel. Responsibilities include leading a team, developing basis of estimates, proposal planning, labor/material estimating, staffing models, automated dashboards, and operations metrics. Requires experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing operations, or proposal estimating, with a Secret security clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team of industrial engineers, analysts, and estimators responsible for basis of estimate development, proposal planning, labor and material estimating, staffing models, automated dashboards, and operations metrics.
  2. Set the vision, priorities, and operating rhythm for the organization, aligning near-term proposal support with long-term development of reusable estimating tools, historical databases, analytics infrastructure, documentation, and standard work.
  3. Guide development of data pipelines and recurring dashboards for staffing, charging, repair and rework, training, and other production metrics that inform proposal assumptions and execution decisions.
  4. Partner with Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Program Management, Business Management, Pricing and Estimating, Quality, Global Supply Chain, and Digital and information technology teams to deliver credible, executable, and compliant proposal inputs.
  5. Use historical actuals, touch labor data, repair and rework trends, staffing and charging data, and schedule assumptions to improve bottom-up, parametric, analogous, and actuals-based estimates and support management reviews, fact finding, and negotiations.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Technology, Operations Research, Data Analytics, Systems Engineering, Business, or related technical field with 5 years of relevant experience; 3 years with a master degree.
  • Experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing operations, production planning, analytics, proposal estimating, or related functions in aerospace, defense, or complex manufacturing.
  • Experience developing basis of estimate packages, staffing plans, capacity models, schedules, dashboards, or operational metrics.
  • Must have the ability to obtain U.S. Government DoD Interim Secret security clearance prior to start, and the ability to obtain and maintain a final Secret security clearance post-start.
  • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need

Nice to have

  • Minimum 4 years of leadership experience leading teams, projects, or cross-functional work.
  • Strong skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, written communication, and executive presentation.
  • Experience leading proposal estimating or production analytics teams supporting Strategic Deterrence Division, Sentinel, or other major defense programs.
  • Experience with cost estimating relationships, improvement curves, risk assessment, confidence factor development, discrete statement of work estimating, or logic and error check analysis.
  • Experience with Tableau, Power BI, Structured Query Language, Python, Systems, Applications, and Products, Cobra, Business Operations Support System, Workday, or manufacturing execution systems.
  • Knowledge of manufacturing flow, shop floor execution, material planning, and how production interfaces with quality and supply chain; ability to read blueprints or schematics.
  • Experience building data pipelines, databases, documentation, or automated reporting solutions.

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret security clearance
  • Special Access Program (SAP) approval