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Northrop Grumman · 2 months ago

Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Northrop Grumman is a company known for its revolutionary systems impacting lives globally. They are seeking a Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer to provide technical expertise and project management for Medium Caliber Cannon production programs, focusing on manufacturing processes and operations in a fast-paced environment.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity
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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

Manufacturing process designStatistical process controlGeometric dimensioningTolerancing3D modeling softwareMRP softwareCollaboration skillsExceptional communicationProblem solvingAttention to detail

Required

14 years of experience, or a Bachelor's degree plus 10 years of experience, or 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

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Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$3.7B
Key Investors
U.S. Department of DefenseNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M

Leadership Team

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Tom Wilson
Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Business Development
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Jeffrey Worsham
Chief Product Owner - Advanced Technology Development
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