Principal Manufacturing Engineer/SR Principal Manufacturing Engineer
About the role
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is looking for a Principal Manufacturing Engineer or Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer to join the Advanced Electronics and Avionics Manufacturing Engineering Team at our Salt Lake City, UT campus. The selected candidate will work on 1st shift and will be on the 9/80 schedule.
Responsibilities
- Work as a process owner for the manufacturing of circuit card assemblies.
- Develop processes, procedures, and assembly instructions for the build of circuit card assemblies.
- Perform continuous improvement activities focused on cost/schedule savings during manufacturing.
- Work with customers to provide manufacturing feedback, metrics and data reporting, and issue resolution.
- Perform root cause and corrective action plans using techniques such as 5 whys, fishbone diagrams, etc.
- Work directly with operators and other manufacturing engineers on the shop floor in a production environment.
- Work with various electronics manufacturing equipment and processes to maintain production flow.
- Provide technical project leadership for continuous improvement and root cause/corrective action projects.
Requirements
Principal Manufacturing Engineer (Level 3)
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience.
- Master’s degree in a STEM field with 3 years of relevant work experience.
- PhD in a STEM field with a minimum of 1 year of relevant work experience.
- Experience in a production manufacturing environment.
- Experience with the design or build of electronic assemblies (i.e., printed circuit assembly or circuit card assembly).
- US Citizenship required.
- Ability to obtain/maintain DOD Secret security clearance.
Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer (Level 4)
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with a minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience.
- Master’s degree in a STEM field with 6 years of relevant work experience.
- PhD in a STEM field with a minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience.
- Experience in a production manufacturing environment.
- Experience with the design or build of electronic assemblies (i.e., printed circuit assembly or circuit card assembly).
- US Citizenship required.
- Ability to obtain/maintain DOD Secret security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools.
- Experience with industry standards for the build and inspection of electronic assemblies including J-STD-001 and IPC-A-610.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment for circuit card assemblies.
- Experience with the processes and equipment used to build circuit card assemblies.
- Experience using Siemens Teamcenter as a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tool.
- Experience using SAP as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tool.
- Experience working hands-on 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 automated optical inspection or other machine vision systems.
- Experience with data structures and network architecture.
- Experience using Lean Six Sigma techniques for continuous improvement activities.
- Data analysis experience.
- Active Secret clearance.
Benefits
- Health Plan
- Savings Plan
- Paid Time Off
- Education Assistance
- Training and Development
- 9/80 Work Schedule (where available)
Pay
Primary Level Salary Range: $89,400.00 – $134,200.00
Secondary Level Salary Range: $111,700.00 – $167,500.00
Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate’s experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.
Schedule
1st shift on a 9/80 schedule.