Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer - R10212753

Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Join Northrop Grumman to work on revolutionary systems that impact people worldwide. Northrop Grumman thrives on intellectual curiosity, diversity, and a drive to accomplish the impossible.

Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer to provide manufacturing and process engineering expertise and project management for medium caliber cannon production programs at Mesa, AZ. Focus on technical leadership in manufacturing of medium caliber cannons supporting the Guns business segment at Armament Systems Division.

• Designs manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining, and material handling
• Generates and maintains manufacturing bills of materials (MBOM)
• Designs arrangement of work centers or machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout
• Designs sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of product, tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance
• Adapts process, tool, machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.
• Incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan
• Inspects performance of processes, product, machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality
• Develops manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control, and may develop those techniques
• Ensures processes and procedures are compliant with regulations

• Our position emphasizes skills and requires 14 years of experience. Will consider a Bachelor’s degree plus 10 years of experience, a Master’s degree plus 8 years of experience, or a PhD plus 6 years of experience
• Engineering experience in supporting a production environment
• Experience working with design engineering, Quality Assurance, machinists, and assembly personnel
• Proven partnership/collaboration skills and ability to partner with cross functional disciplines within a team
• Exceptional communication skills (verbal, written, presentation)
• Knowledge of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
• Must be a U.S. Citizen

• Experience with MES and/or software that maintains routings and production data
• Experience with MRP software (SAP, CostPoint, etc)
• Experience with PLM Software (Teamcenter, Windchill, etc)
• Experience with using 3D modeling software (Solidworks, NX, Pro-E, etc.)
• Experience working with Aerospace/Military standards and implementation of standards across cross-functional teams

Primary Level Salary Range: $ - $

Benefits include health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, paid holidays, and paid time off.

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