Principal Mechanical Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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.

Position Overview

This position provides mechanical and production engineering support for development and fabrication of medium caliber ammunition. In general, as a member of an integrated product team, you will be providing mechanical engineering support and work direction to distributed manufacturing and test locations, investigating and solving design and manufacturing issues, developing and documenting manufacturing processes, coordinating efforts between internal functional groups, supporting manufacturing and ammunition testing, supporting communications with our customers, and providing support and oversight to material suppliers.

This role will be focused on the mechanical design of the medium caliber ammunition being developed.

Typical Duties (Including but not limited to)

• Conduct Failure Analysis and Corrective Actions to drive the rapid resolution of complex design issues.

• Provide mechanical design-to-production engineering support for the development of new and modification of existing medium caliber ammunition products

• Provide work direction and engineering support to our distributed manufacturing and test locations

• Assist in the resolution of complex manufacturing line process issues such as machining, metal finishing, painting, heat treating, general mechanical assembly, and test

• Research and evaluate commercially available tools and equipment to support manufacturing activities. Design and procure specialized tooling and fixtures.

• Develop new, and improve existing, manufacturing processes

• Develop task releases, get them approved and introduced into the manufacturing system

• Prepare for and support Build Readiness Reviews and Production Readiness Reviews

• Create test requests and support test readiness reviews

• Coordinate manufacturing efforts between internal functional disciplines including Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Manufacturing, and Test.

• As the responsible agent for the product Technical Data Package, support the creation and release of Engineering Changes (concept through final release).

• Provide Engineering disposition on tooling and gage changes from internal and external sources

• Provide Engineering disposition on non-conforming product from internal and external sources

• Provide Engineering approval on proposed process changes from internal and external sources

• Create, publish, review and maintain all necessary documentation required for new and existing manufacturing programs.

• Manufacturing work instructions

• Manufacturing bills of material and build lists

• TDP reviews for correctness and completeness

• Ensure appropriate documentation is in Configuration Management system

• Monitor In-Process Testing and Lot Acceptance Testing for compliance to performance specification requirements.

• Assist in the preparation of engineering and program proposals

• Assist in the preparation of and participate in customer meetings and program reviews

Travel up to about 15%.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline plus 5 years of relevant experience in engineering, or master’s degree plus 3 years of relevant engineering experience.

• Ability to guide successful completion of significant tasks and provide some work direction, mentoring, and coordination of other technical team members.

• Some experience working and communicating with customers, program management, and engineering management

• Technical understanding of mechanical mechanisms, electromechanical mechanisms, manufacturing processes, metal fabrication, and standard assembly processes.

• Applies knowledge of engineering and scientific methods, theories and research techniques in the disciplined investigation and solution of technical problems.

• The person filling this position must be able to work with a wide variety of multi-discipline people, in remote settings, interact with them frequently, building strong trusting relationships.

• Experience and proficiency in working with multiple projects.

• Self-motivated to start and complete quality work

• Strong communication skills, written and verbal

• Strong computer skills in Microsoft Suite,…