Manager Tool Die Making 2

Relocation assistance may be available. Clearance required for start: No. Clearance type: Secret. Travel: Yes, 25% of the time.

About the role

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Manager Tool Die Making 2 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Tooling organization. This leadership role is located in Clearfield, UT.

Responsibilities

• Manage machinists and DCT’s (Dimension Control Technicians) across multiple programs and sites.
• Based out of Clearfield, UT, with oversight across multiple AS Utah shops as well as machining in Iuka, MS.
• Develop technical machining and fabrication statements of work.
• Ensure projects/designs are completed on schedule and within budget, including management of indirect budget.
• Ensure tooling/program support of machining/tool fabrication for production transition and sustained efforts.
• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve processes/procedures to support program efforts by collaborating with other Aeronautics Systems Sector Tooling Management, including:
  • Lead a group of 5 to 20 hourly non‑exempt employees, analysts and/or level 1 managers.
  • Manage and coordinate machining/tool fabrication activities with other programs to ensure appropriate staffing/de‑staffing actions are developed and executed.
  • Own responsibility for program and technical performance while providing objective‑oriented directions to hard‑lined or dotted‑line reporting personnel, utilizing management guidelines & general policies.
  • Monitor and manage risk items to ensure mitigating actions are effective and timely.
  • Promote Lean, Knowledge Management, and other process improvement initiatives as well as sharing of lessons learned and best practices throughout the organization.
  • Manage personnel performance evaluation, merit planning, employee development, and utilization of EVMS to manage direct costs.
  • Responsible for formulating capital asset plans and strategies to build a sustainable Tooling Machining Center.
• This will be a 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off but not limited to that shift if the organization’s business needs change.
• Provides exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment.
• Seek self‑motivated, proactive, and goal‑oriented people to help grow services and improve performance.
• Leaders live Northrop Grumman values daily: upholding the highest ethical standards, facilitating a safe and respectful environment, holding yourself and others accountable for predictable and balanced results, operating as OneNG to remove barriers, and pioneering a vision that shapes