Operations Manufacturing Manager 3 (site ops manager)

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.

External Posting:

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At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems in air and space that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our work preserves freedom and democracy and advances human discovery and our understanding of the universe. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future and have a lot of 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, but they’re also making history.   

Northrop Grumman Mission Enabled Products (MEP) and Strategic Business has an opening for a Principal EHS Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Commerce, CA.  To learn more about Mission Enabled Products, visit our website Spacecraft Products | Northrop Grumman.

Overview:

Reporting to the Mission Enabling Products (MEP) Sr. Director of Manufacturing Operations, the Value Stream Owner is accountable for complete operational execution, from contract award through delivery to external and internal customers, for the Propulsion Operating Unit (OU) in Commerce, California

Role and responsibilities:

• Accountable to meet or exceed the operations safety, quality, delivery, employee and cost (SQDEC) expectations of external and internal customers across all Propulsion OU products/programs. Ownership and accountability for effective hand-offs through all functional and process center areas. Own, execute and continuously improve daily management processes and communicate/escalate key issues to leadership and throughout the organization
• Provide direct leadership to master scheduling, product value streams, process centers, functional leaders (manufacturing engineering, quality, production planning, material control, Facilities, and EH&S) to achieve product and site goals
• Collaborate and coordinate with Program Management, and business support functions (Finance, contracts, and human resources) to achieve product and site goals via sharing of resources, tools, equipment, and processes.
• Sustain and improve operations daily management standards, standard business systems and tools optimization, and align improvement focus with engineering and programs teams.
• Accountable to meet/under-run  manufacturing rates and manage overhead and direct labor yield (DLY) rates. Authority for all operations hiring, onboarding and training plan.
• Develop facility capital project plans and prioritize cap-ex spending, in collaboration with programs and engineering functions, and ensure continuous monitoring of projects and achieve performance/quality, delivery, and budget commitments.
• Own operations resource management, escalation, prioritization, and conflict resolution decisions.
• Strengthen the operations team through develop and deploy operations strategies and tactics to leadership team,