Principal/Sr Principal Engineer Manufacturing

About the role

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a manufacturing engineer for Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. This role supports the installation of capability upgrades on the Stealth Bomber fleet, focusing on wire harness fabrication and installations.

Responsibilities

• Interpret wire harness and electrical component detail, subassembly and installation drawings and specifications to support production electricians.
• Design sequence of operations and specify procedures for aircraft modifications, electrical harness fabrication, and subcomponent fabrication and assembly.
• Design manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining, and material handling.
• Provide manufacturing oversight and guidance for electrical harness fabrication shop, including fabrication work instructions, identifying necessary tooling and facilities requirements, and investigating engineering issues.
• Provide guidance to vehicle engineering regarding aircraft modifications and subassembly design concepts, specification requirements, and installation constraints.
• Adapt machine, tooling, or equipment design to optimize efficiency and integrate with existing operations.
• Incorporate inspection and test requirements into aircraft modification plans and subcomponent production plans.
• Inspect performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency; investigate problems and deficiencies and initiate corrective action to ensure product quality.
• Specify, identify, and procure new manufacturing equipment to ensure production readiness.
• Develop manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop those techniques.
• Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.
• Aid in training employees in new and existing manufacturing processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a related STEM field with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience; OR a Master's Degree with 3 years of relevant work experience; OR a PhD with 1 years of relevant work experience.
• Ability to understand and effectively communicate technical issues (written and verbal).
• Experience with the design, build, operation, and maintenance of electrical components or assemblies.
• Experience in researching technical issues through engineering drawing review, database records queries, and theory of operation.
• Ability to create work instructions.

Qualifications

• Basic U.S. Government Secret clearance (must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access (es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.
• Your ability to obtain and/or transfer and maintain the final U.S adjudicated government Secret clearance (must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access (es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.

Skills

• Hands on experience working with electrical, electronic, structural, or mechanical parts or assemblies.
• Knowledge of Lean Six Sigma techniques for continuous process improvement.
• Experience with wire harness manufacturing and assembly.
• Proficiency with the full suite of Microsoft Office Tools.
• Documented experience working in an Integrated Product Team (IPT) environment.
• New manufacturing technology development experience.
• Experience with CATIA V5 modeling and Teamcenter.
• Experience with 3D printing technology.

Pay

The primary level salary range is $84,700.00 - $127,100.00, while the secondary level salary range is $105,800.00 - $158,600.00. Overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus may also be offered.

Schedule

• Yes, 10% of the Time
• Work either the 1st shift 7:00am - 3:30pm OR the 2nd shift 2:00pm - 10:30pm