Principal/ Sr Principal Manufacturing Project Engineer

Northrop Grumman•Baltimore, MD

4d•$108,800 - $203,600•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman's Manufacturing Operations Engineering organization is seeking a Principal/Senior Principal Manufacturing Project Engineer 3/4 for the Advanced Micro-Electronics Cell (AMEC). This position is located at our site near BWI Airport in Maryland. The Manufacturing Project Engineer will be responsible for a product line, or group of product lines, moving through their respective areas. This position can be filled at either a level 3 or level 4 depending on the candidate's experience.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related STEM area.
Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience (Principal) or a minimum of 8 years (Senior Principal).
Minimum of 3 years with a MS degree (Principal) or a minimum of 6 years with a MS degree (Senior Principal).
Experience in a manufacturing environment.
Experience managing or leading projects and/or people.
Experience with Design of Experiment (DOE), Statistical Process Control (SPC), and 6 sigma concepts for process development.
Experience with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
Fluency in MS Office software applications.
Ability to obtain and maintain a US Secret Security Clearance.
US Citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

Chip and Wire manufacturing experience.
Experience with J-STD and MIL-STD requirements, including MIL-STD-883 & MIL-PRF-38534, J-STD-001, IPC-610.
Experience with Configuration Management and Manufacturing Process Planning.

Responsibilities

Act as the main point of contact for all manufacturing engineering related activities for your product within the cell.
Monitor product performance, quality, delivery, and cost metrics; highlight detractors and gather resources to resolve them.
Collaborate closely with your process engineering peers as well as multiple other functional groups supporting shop floor, program office, and customer (quality engineering, manufacturing supervision, production, operations, design engineering, program management).
Drive root cause corrective action efforts.
Identify continuous improvement opportunities; create solutions and lobby for funding.
Review and handle product on the shop floor.
Lead communications outward from the shop floor, through yield meetings, situations reports, problem resolution charts, etc.
Gather and document efforts for non-recurring cost for initial product startup as well as support manufacturing readiness reviews.
Coordinate between non-deliverable hardware requestor and manufacturing operations/engineering.