Sr. Staff Engineer Industrial

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

This role is for a Sr. Staff Engineer Industrial at Northrop Grumman, focusing on optimizing plant and production facility operations, equipment layouts, and workflow efficiencies. The engineer will analyze and design processes, manage resources, conduct cost control studies, perform manufacturing simulations, and provide technical leadership. The role requires significant experience in engineering and manufacturing, strategic planning, and continuous improvement, with a focus on industrial processes rather than AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Strategic planning
  2. Develop and deploy plans that ensure the timely availability and effective utilization of labor, facilities, equipment, & tooling resources enabling the achievement of program delivery and cost milestones.
  3. Develop and summarize analyses for the acquisition, maintenance & enhancement of capital assets and miscellaneous equipment. Plans plant, office, and production facilities and equipment layouts
  4. Perform manufacturing simulations
  5. Helps determine the most efficient sequence of operations and work flow and provides finite scheduling to manufacturing cost centers and IPTs

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in a related STEM discipline
  • Strategic planning
  • Continuous improvement
  • Technical writing
  • Interfacing/communicating with multiple levels of leadership, clients, and vendors
  • MS Project
  • MS PowerPoint
  • MS Excel
  • US Government Secret Clearance
  • US Citizenship

Nice to have

  • Aerospace or Ship Building experience
  • Integrated scheduling and planning
  • Project Management
  • Flexsim

What the JD emphasized

  • minimum of 14 years of relevant work experience in engineering and/or manufacturing
  • 12 or more years of relevant work experience in engineering and/or manufacturing
  • 10 or more years of relevant work experience in engineering and/or manufacturing
  • Ability to obtain a US Government Secret Clearance
  • US Citizenship required