RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE TYPE: None
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.
An organization within Northrop Grumman’s Payload and Ground Systems (PGS) division, Spacecraft Components is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, and antenna reflectors. Our products are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years.
Learn more about Spacecraft Components at our website: https://www.northropgrumman.com/space/spacecraft-components/.
Job Duties:
- Designs manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.
- Designs arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.
- Designs sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
- Adapts machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.
- May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan. Inspects performance of 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.
- Provides guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
- Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.
Level 4 Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum 9 years of related manufacturing engineering experience is required with a bachelor’s degree. 7 years of related manufacturing engineering experience is required with a master's degree.
- Experience within a manufacturing environment.
- Proven multi-tasker and self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in writing technical specifications or manufacturing work instructions.
- Proficient in reading engineering drawings and a good understand of GD&T (Geometric Design and Tolerancing)
- Proficiency with MS Office required; MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
- Must be a US Citizen
Level 3 Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years of related manufacturing engineering experience is required with a bachelor’s degree. 3 years of related manufacturing engineering experience is required with a master's degree.
- Experience within a manufacturing environment.
- Proven multi-tasker and self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in writing technical specifications or manufacturing work instructions.
- Proficient in reading engineering drawings and a good understand of GD&T (Geometric Design and Tolerancing)
- Proficiency with MS Office required; MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
- Must be a US Citizen
Salary Range: $120,900.00 - $181,300.00Salary Range 2: $97,500.00 - $146,300.00
The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.
Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.