Principal Manufacturing Test Engineering (RF Systems)

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  • each benefit. - Pay: Salary range given: "$108,800.00 - $163,200.00". Also mention overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonus, annual bonuses, long term incentives. That's specific. So include Pay section. - Schedule: mention "9/80 Work Schedule (where available)". That's schedule info. Also maybe nothing else. So include Schedule section. We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. We must not include cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. So remove EEO statement, application period, etc. We need to preserve all substantive information. Ensure we don't lose details like US Citizenship required, ability to obtain/maintain Secret clearance, etc. Those are qualifications/requirements. Let's craft. Structure:

    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 Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. We have a wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies. Our differentiated battle management and cyber solutions deliver timely, mission-enabling information and provide superior situational awareness and understanding to protect the U.S. and its global allies. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is looking for you to join our team as a Principal Electronics Engineer - Manufacturing Test Engineering (RF Systems) based out of Rolling Meadows, IL. Manufacturing Engineers thrive in an environment of daily unique challenges and close proximity to products. Partnering with production, successful test engineers lead troubleshooting and ensure excellence. Engineers who do well in this setting enjoy seeing their work perform in a test or a product, collaborate and communicate well across functions, and are innovative problem solvers. Best suited to this role are those who enjoy learning and bring a sense of urgency and energy to their tasks. This position will support test station hardware efforts associated with testing Radio Frequency (RF) production hardware in a dynamic, fast-paced and technically challenging production environment. This individual will be responsible for all aspects of test development from requirements capture through final validation and release. A successful person in this role will be very effective at leading collaboration with the product Design Engineer, the Test Hardware Engineer, the Quality Assurance Engineer and the Manufacturing Technician. This position would include providing needed efforts to set up and support the acceptance testing of the Shop Replaceable Units, as well as acceptance testing and environmental screening at the payload (Line Replaceable Unit) level. This position will support aerial, military-grade, or space-grade Electronic Warfare Systems and Subsystems.

    Then Responsibilities:

    Responsibilities

    • Support to Production: Coordinate with Design Engineering, Production technician, Project Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Quality organizations to test and provide solutions to support nonconformance systems for contractual acceptance testing and environmental screening commitments.
    • Test station design – debug & integration/validation: Investigate, design, and provide solutions to meet new or modified testing requirements.
    • Test procedure development/Maintenance: Generate and maintain/revise Manufacturing Acceptance testing procedures, Environmental Screening procedures, hardware drawings of test equipment and fixtures.
    • Continuous improvement: Review of quality metrics to identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to reduce cost, cycle time, defects.
    • Testability reviews: Collaborate with design engineering to achieve testability in new and updated product design.
    • Test station/fixture development: Design and maintain/revise Manufacturing Acceptance testing fixture and stations for functional and environmental testing. This includes test station concepts (Schematics, block diagram, simulations, test requirement creation)
    • Ability to interface/communicate with multiple levels of leadership, clients, and vendors.
    • Building a strong professional relationship with other Manufacturing disciplines (Process Engineering, Project Management, Shop Operations, Mission Assurance), strong decision-making skills and a high-level ethical standard is essential.
    Requirements (Basic Qualifications):

    Requirements

    Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and/or Computer Engineering or a related STEM field with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience; OR a Master of Science (MS) degree in equivalent fields with 3 or more years of experience. Experience with troubleshooting of hardware, and test issues. Experience with schematic generation such as Cadence. Experience completing hardware projects involving hardware design / development activities and/or integration and validation activities on schedule and on budget. Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance. US Citizenship required.

    Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications):

    Qualifications

    Python and MATLAB experience. Experience with programming languages such as C#, C, Java or Lab Windows CVI. Experience with schematic generation such as Cadence. Prior hardware troubleshooting experience of test equipment or prime hardware. Experience in troubleshooting unit under test. Experience with RF Electronic systems in manufacturing or design (hardware, firmware, etc.) environment. Experience working with use of any test instruments such as (but not limited to) Oscilloscope, Signal Generator, Spectrum Analyzer, Network Analyzer, etc. Experience with reading schematics and interpreting electrical one-lines. Experience using GitHub. Active DoD Security Clearance.

    Skills: maybe we can combine some of the above but we already have qualifications. Could create Skills section listing specific technical skills: Python, MATLAB, C#, C, Java, LabWindows CVI, Cadence, Oscilloscope, Signal Generator, Spectrum Analyzer, Network Analyzer, GitHub, etc. But we might duplicate. The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We already have Requirements and Qualifications; Skills could be thin. Maybe we can omit Skills and include those details in Qualifications. However Qualifications already includes many of those. So we can skip Skills. Benefits:

    Benefits

    • Health Plan
    • Savings Plan
    • Paid Time Off
    • Additional Benefits including Education Assistance, Training and Development, 9/80 Work Schedule (where available), and much more!
    • Health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
    But note duplication: "Health Plan, Savings Plan, Paid Time Off and Additional Benefits including Education Assistance, Training and Development, 9/80 Work Schedule (where available), and much more!" then later repeats health insurance etc. We should preserve all but avoid duplication? The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Duplicated lines: we should not include duplicated lines. The text has duplication; we need to decide whether to keep both or deduplicate. The instruction says remove duplicated lines. So we should combine unique items. Let's list unique benefits: - Health Plan - Savings Plan - Paid Time Off - Education Assistance - Training and Development - 9/80 Work Schedule (where available) - Health insurance coverage - Life and disability insurance - Company paid holidays - Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business (but we already have Paid Time Off; maybe it's same). Might be considered duplicate. We'll keep Paid Time Off once. We could combine: Health Plan (includes health insurance coverage). But to preserve info, we could list both but note duplication? Safer to keep both as they are subtly different: Health Plan vs health insurance coverage. Might be considered same. I'd keep both to avoid losing info. However instruction says remove duplicated lines. If they are essentially same, it's duplicated. I'd deduplicate: keep Health Plan (covers health insurance). Keep Savings Plan. Keep Paid Time Off. Keep Education Assistance. Keep Training and Development. Keep 9/80 Work Schedule (where available). Keep Life and disability insurance. Keep Company paid holidays. Thus Benefits list:
    • Health Plan
    • Savings Plan
    • Paid Time Off
    • Education Assistance
    • Training and Development
    • 9/80 Work Schedule (where available)
    • Life and disability insurance
    • Company paid holidays
    Pay:

    Pay

    Primary Level Salary Range: $108,800.00 - $163,200.00. The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, 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. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

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