U109 Material Control Specialist B - 2nd Shift

About the role

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Material Control Specialist B to join its team within the Mission Systems Organization. This position is located in Linthicum, Maryland.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute plans and schedules to satisfy customer requirements supporting engineering development, manufacturing, and calibration (e.g., engineering breadboards/systems/LRUs/sub-assemblies/spares/capital acquisition or rental, and storage of materials and equipment) via various manual and computerized production, inventory, and material control systems.
• Review input/output data for completeness and accuracy, taking appropriate action to correct discrepancies.
• Communicate requirements to other personnel and departments.
• Plan and direct efforts of lower classified personnel.
• Utilize various legacy and advanced computerized production, inventory, and material control systems to prepare and plan requirements and schedules.
• Correlate and analyze information from various departments, considering factors such as availability, customer specification, delivery requirement, lead time, shop capacity, inventory levels, and lot sizing.
• Analyze planned factory attrition cost and coordinate recommendations with operations, engineering, and materials personnel; make corrections as required to meet cost and schedule requirements.
• Follow all phases of schedule commitment, including processing mil stripping and filling of obligations, preparing charts and periodic status reports for management and leads.
• Prepare or obtain supplementary schedules, including system breakdowns, sub-assembly operations, and related details.
• Review engineering customer changes to assess impact/cost to schedules and product; understand and analyze financial transaction implications when incorporating changes.
• Reconcile schedule changes in the Enterprise system to ensure valid manufacturing and materials requirement generation.
• Develop, recommend, and communicate alternate methods to resolve priority/capacity problems.
• Review and analyze new orders and/or schedule delays and problems affecting engineering development and production, taking appropriate action to avoid or resolve conflicting conditions.
• Understand implications of other processes as they relate in ERP systems; appraise management of recommended solutions.
• Maintain awareness of schedules to ensure timely authorization for procurement of critical purchased and self-manufactured items.
• Develop plans and requirements into specific tasks for the organizational unit; provide instruction and explanations to lower classified personnel on procedures, techniques, principles, and practices.
• Use "INFOPAK" or similar software to develop training material for ERP implementation and other applicable systems.
• Monitor/status tasks performed by lower classified personnel and suggest improvements when necessary.
• Attend and participate in program/production control meetings to provide job status, scheduling, cost data, etc.
• Attend and participate in configuration control board meetings to determine engineering change notice break-in points; analyze engineering input/output to assess impacts and determine implementation for configuration, price, and delivery.
• Communicate to the applicable program office, configuration control board, requirements generation, and planning, executing actions deemed necessary resulting from the assessment.
• Receive, evaluate, and enter requirements for internal/external orders; process requires thorough knowledge of legacy systems, appropriate ERP modules, and ERP user functionality.
• Analyze orders for completeness and accuracy; resolve problems with appropriate personnel; obtain and enter schedules and status on databases.
• Order and be responsible for distribution of order status reports used in the evaluation of all phases of the ordering, tracking, and manufacturing process, including reports on yield percentage of scrap, cycle time, reorder activity, aging, etc.
• Participate in Lean Manufacturing programs directed toward reductions in product cost, cycle time, and queue management, including training, data gathering, and reporting to all employee and management levels as required.
• Participate in Northrop Grumman training as required.

Requirements

• Associate Degree or 60 credit hours, including at least 9 credit hours in Math, Science, and/or IT courses.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.

Additional Information

This is an SEA Union Represented position and a 2nd Shift position. Secret clearance is not required for start.