Manufacturing Engineer Level 2 or Level 3 - R10218553

Manufacturing Engineer Level 2 or Level 3 - R

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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’s Space Sector is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer – Level 2 or Level 3 to join our team in Saint Charles, MO. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.

An organization within Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems, Cutting Edge Optronics is a leading provider of high‑power laser diode arrays, high power pump modules and diode‑pumped solid‑state (DPSS) lasers. We are a vertically integrated manufacturer capable of supplying unmounted diode bars, packaged laser diodes, DPSS modules, laser diode drivers and complete DPSS laser systems. Our diode laser‑based products have become industry standards and are used in a wide variety of commercial and military applications.

Learn more about Cutting Edge Optronics at our website:

• Include development/coordination of formal requirements documents with internal and/or external customers while ensuring systemic conversion of requirements to design, implementation and production validations.
• Manage project cost and schedule through all phases and execute transition to production activities of the developed systems to program and functional manufacturing spaces.

The manufacturing engineer will work on the development of requirements; performance of technical planning; manufacturing system development/integration, verification and validation; evaluation of costs; and evaluation and/or mitigation of program risk impacts. The position requires following projects through all manufacturing readiness level phases: concept development, design, fabrication/assembly/test at lab level, production environment demo, full production operations implementation, sustainment/maintenance/ and continuous improvement over the full product life cycle.

These projects focus on advanced and emerging manufacturing capabilities and/or design enhancements with the goal of improving overall production manufacturing quality, span times/time to market and reducing cost.

• Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 0 years of professional experience.
• No clearance required to start
• Manufacturing/production experience
• Familiar with CE marking requirements and/or CDRH requirements for laser products.
• Familiar with MIL SPECs and/or experience with design of dual‑use products.
• Experience dealing directly with senior level customers to identify and solve problems.
• Ability to work with program managers to develop realistic cost and task proposals during the RFQ phase of programs.
• Maintain schedules and lead design tasks during the execution phase of programs.

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 1 year of professional experience.
• No clearance required to start
• Manufacturing/production experience
• Familiar with CE marking requirements and/or CDRH requirements for laser products.
• Familiar with MIL SPECs and/or experience with design of dual‑use products.
• Experience dealing directly with senior level customers to identify and solve problems.
• Ability to work with program managers to develop…