Sentinel Manufacturing / Principal Manufacturing Engineer 18189*

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

Principal Manufacturing Engineer for the Sentinel program, focusing on developing and improving manufacturing processes, resolving technical issues, and ensuring compliance with production requirements for a state-of-the-art weapon system. Requires a Secret clearance and experience with manufacturing engineering tools and documentation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Represents the organization as a technical contact, interacts with senior personnel on important technical matters, facilitates inter-team coordination, and reinforces leadership’s vision and goals
  2. Develop processes by studying requirements; research, design, modify, and test production/deployment methods and equipment
  3. Collaborate with Design Engineering on design to ensure practical manufacturing and fabrication solutions
  4. Resolves complex process issues
  5. Work with suppliers to develop manufacturing planning for successful preparation and execution of Manufacturing Readiness Assessments (MRA)

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Minimum 5 years of experience for Principal Manufacturing Engineer
  • Active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance
  • Experience with Design Reviews
  • Experience with Process Control Documentation
  • Experience with Work Instructions
  • Experience with Bills of Materials
  • Experience with Mechanical/Electrical Drawings
  • Experience with Siemens NX/CPLM or similar tools
  • Experience with Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
  • Experience using Microsoft Office Products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, MS-Project)

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's and/or Master’s STEM Degree
  • Previous experience on EMD projects
  • Previous experience on high-rate production military program
  • Experience with Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM)
  • Understanding of MRAs and establishing Manufacturing Readiness Levels per DoD customer requirements
  • Prior experience developing and designing tooling for field work and installations
  • Demonstrated experience working in a Model Based Manufacturing digital environment
  • Demonstrated Project Management experience
  • Experience in resolving manufacturing process issues & training operators on a new process

What the JD emphasized

  • Active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance
  • Special Access Program (SAP) approval