Manufacturing Engineer/Principal Manufacturing Engineer
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is hiring a Manufacturing Engineer or Principal Manufacturing Engineer for its Advanced Electronics and Avionics Manufacturing Engineering Team at the Salt Lake City, Utah campus. The position develops and maintains technical solutions for manufacturing circuit card assemblies and interacts with customers and manufacturing leadership on metrics reporting and issue resolution. The role works in a production environment on first shift with a 9/80 schedule and includes travel approximately 10% of the time. The role may be filled at the Manufacturing Engineer (level 2) or Principal Manufacturing Engineer (level 3) level, depending on candidate experience.
Requirements
- For level 2: Bachelor's degree in a STEM field and at least 2 years of relevant work experience, or a Master's degree in a STEM field and 0 years of relevant work experience, or a Ph.D. in a STEM field and at least 0 years of relevant work experience.
- For level 3: Bachelor's degree in a STEM field and at least 5 years of relevant work experience, or a Master's degree in a STEM field and 3 years of relevant work experience, or a Ph.D. in a STEM field and at least 1 year of relevant work experience.
- Experience in a production manufacturing environment.
- Experience designing or building electronic assemblies, such as printed circuit assemblies or circuit card assemblies.
- U.S. citizenship.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance.
- Ability to work in a production environment.
- Good technical writing skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with or programming pick-and-place SMT machines.
- Experience using Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools.
- Experience with industry standards for building and inspecting electronic assemblies, including J-STD-001 and IPC-A-610.
- Experience in circuit card assembly manufacturing.
- Experience with processes and equipment used to build circuit card assemblies.
- Experience using Siemens Teamcenter as a PLM tool.
- Experience using SAP as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tool.
- Hands-on experience with electronic parts and assemblies in a production environment.
- Experience working with engineering drawings and parts lists using a Configuration Management (CM) system.
- Experience with data structures and network architecture.
- Experience using Lean Six Sigma techniques for continuous improvement.
- Data analysis experience.
- Active Secret clearance.
Responsibilities
- Own pick-and-place machine processes used in manufacturing circuit card assemblies.
- Develop processes, procedures, and assembly instructions for building circuit card assemblies.
- Perform continuous improvement activities focused on manufacturing cost and schedule savings.
- Provide customers with manufacturing feedback, metrics, data reporting, and issue resolution.
- Perform root cause analysis and develop corrective action plans using methods such as 5 Whys and fishbone diagrams.
- Work directly with operators and other manufacturing engineers on the shop floor in a production environment.
- Work with electronics manufacturing equipment and processes to maintain production flow.
- Provide technical project leadership for continuous improvement and root cause/corrective action projects.
Benefits
- Health plan and health insurance coverage.
- Savings plan.
- Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business.
- Company-paid holidays.
- Education assistance.
- Training and development.
- 9/80 work schedule where available.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
