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Manager Manufacturing Engineering 2
Company | Northrop Grumman |
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Location | Palmdale, CA, USA |
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Salary | $129300 – $193900 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Must have a Bachelor’s Degree AND 5 years of engineering experience in production assembly/fabrication including composites, metallic, coatings application, and/or production manufacturing OR Master’s Degree AND 3 years of engineering experience in production assembly/fabrication including composites, metallic, coatings application, and/or production manufacturing
- Must have 2 year of prior management/leadership experience in related field
- Ability to interface/communicate with multiple levels of leadership, clients, and vendors
- Must have an Active DOD Secret clearance as well as Special Program Access within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
- Must be willing to work 3/10 2nd Shift.
Responsibilities
- Create new and modify existing assembly/ manufacturing instructions with necessary operations to support build sequence, while also including specifications/quality requirements and maintaining a bill of material (BOM)
- Provide guidance to Design Engineering during drawing reviews regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques; and to identify any manufacturability challenges or changes required ahead of drawing release.
- Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations and engineering specifications. You will also drive the team to support the production floor in a liaison role. These activities include answering assist calls from technicians, processing of MRB tags, performing root cause corrective action, and be responsive to keep production moving
- Investigate and initiate corrective action to ensure product quality; resolve quality issues that arise during the build process to ensure all parts conform to the design configuration.
- Develop tooling / fixtures to conduct the operations steps and to serve as manufacturing aids for technicians.
- Manufacturing Engineers for Aeronautics Systems are expected to provide technical solutions to a wide range of complex and difficult problems.
- They are problem solvers who have the ability to provide results that are innovative, thorough, practical, and consistent with organization objectives.
- The ideal candidate will be able to work individually as well as collaborate with a diverse group of individuals, work tactically, but with an eye towards future strategy, and exhibit solid communication skills while acting as the technical representative voice for Operations.
Preferred Qualifications
- STEM Degree (Science, Technical, Engineering or Mathematical)
- Understanding of Engineering, Tooling, Production, Program Management and GSC Subcontracts Processes.
- Experienced in dynamic environments where there may be schedule changes, design changes and validation failures.
- Experience with Earned Value Management and CAM
- Must have a complete understanding of aircraft operations and maintenance as well as a thorough knowledge of aircraft scheduling.
- Experience working hands-on in a production assembly line environment
- Experience providing innovative techniques focused on improving product designs and tooling assemblies or equipment
- Complex assembly or composite experience and process knowledge