Northrop Grumman Australia · 2 months ago
Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer
Northrop Grumman is a leader in technological advancements, seeking a Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer for their Mesa, AZ facility. The role involves providing manufacturing and process engineering expertise for medium caliber cannon production programs, focusing on technical leadership and project management.
Defense & Space
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
14 years of experience, or 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 US Citizen
Preferred
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
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
Funding
Current Stage
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