Principal Manufacturing Engineer/SR Principal Manufacturing Engineer (Weekend Shift)

About the role

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is hiring a Principal Manufacturing Engineer or Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer based at the Salt Lake City, UT campus. The position is on the Advanced Electronics and Avionics Manufacturing Engineering Team and focuses on developing and maintaining technical solutions for the manufacture of circuit card assemblies. The selected candidate will interact with customers and manufacturing leadership for metrics reporting and issue resolution.

The work schedule will include Saturday and Sunday. The candidate can choose a 4x10 schedule (e.g., Thursday–Sunday, Friday–Monday, or Saturday–Tuesday) or, if selecting a 9/80 or 5x8 schedule, may choose consecutive work days as long as Saturday and Sunday are included. Travel up to 10% of the time may be required.

This position may be filled at the Principal (level 3) or Senior Principal (level 4) level depending on candidate experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as process owner for the manufacture of circuit card assemblies.
• Develop processes, procedures, and assembly instructions for the build of circuit card assemblies.
• Perform continuous improvement activities focused on cost and schedule savings during manufacturing.
• Work with customers to provide manufacturing feedback, metrics and data reporting, and issue resolution.
• Perform root cause and corrective action analyses using techniques 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 various electronics manufacturing equipment and processes to maintain production flow.
• Provide technical project leadership for continuous improvement and root cause/corrective action projects.

Basic Qualifications — Principal Manufacturing Engineer (Level 3)

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience; or Master's degree in a STEM field with 3 years of relevant work experience; or 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 (e.g., printed circuit assemblies or circuit card assemblies).
• Ability to work on Saturday and Sunday.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret security clearance.

Basic Qualifications — Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer (Level 4)

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with a minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience; or Master's degree in a STEM field with 6 years of relevant work experience; or 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 (e.g., printed circuit assemblies or circuit card assemblies).
• Ability to work on Saturday and Sunday.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to work in a production environment.
• Good technical writing skills.
• 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, and Additional Benefits.
• Education Assistance, Training and Development.
• 9/80 Work Schedule (where available).
• Overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus may be available depending on position.
• Annual bonuses designed to reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results.
• Long Term Incentives may be available for employees in Vice President or Director positions.
• Health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Pay

Principal Manufacturing Engineer (Level 3) salary range: $89,400 – $134,200. Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer (Level 4) salary range: $111,700 – $167,500. Northrop Grumman considers scope and responsibilities of the role along with the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions when determining base salary offers.