Sr Principal Engineer Manufacturing Systems

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

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.

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.

The role is an onsite-based position in Baltimore, MD.  The area of work for this position concentrates in the Systems Engineering aspects to drive early collaboration between Manufacturing, Global Supply Chain, and Engineering organizations to streamline strategies for the Operations (Manufacturing and Test) organization to enable successful product launches into Manufacturing.

Manufacturing Systems Engineers (MSE) engage with low manufacturing readiness level (MRL) programs in Business Divisions and Emerging Capabilities Development (ECD) to accelerate affordable maturation of new sensor technologies from demonstration to LRIP. MSEs drive commonality of hardware, producibility vs innovation trades and risk management through tools such as Manufacturing Readiness Assessments (MRA) and Manufacturing Plans (MP).

MSEs must understand all aspects of a sensor’s fabrication, assembly and test (internally and/or externally) in context of other programs to identify product line alignment (re-use) and mitigate resource limitations. MSEs also influence Operations investments such as internal research and development (IRAD), Manufacturing Technology Activity (MTA), and capital in support of developing discriminating technologies including additive manufacturing, advanced packaging, automation/robotics, electro/optics, data analytics, and digital fabric. 

We are seeking a Sr Principal Engineer Manufacturing Systems in Baltimore, MD. Fully oniste.

What You'll Get to Do:

•Interface with Business Divisions and ECD to stay current with new concept and proposal programs

•Serve as operations technical interface for ECD and Business Division integrated program teams (IPT) for low MRL programs

•Develop MRAs and MPs per AS6500

•Support IPTs in make/buy/dual sourcing decisions

•Participate in producibility reviews for new product designs

•Recommend design improvements to produce lower cost/higher performing products

•Understand and translate state-of-the-art process capabilities and guidelines for product designers by interfacing with manufacturing subject matter experts

•Develop discriminating IRAD and capital investment plans with the Manufacturing Strategy and Integration team

Attributes:

•Must be able to understand complex technical issues and frame them in context for program management and functional Vice Presidents alike

•Excellent organizational and communication skills

•Able to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings at customer and executive levels

•Self-motivated and passionate about next generation sensor technology

•Able to apply extensive technical manufacturing expertise in the advancement of next generation RF sensors without appreciable direction

•Able to find technical adjacencies across different sensor product applications. These adjacencies will be paired with IRAD, capital, and MTA planning to ensure common processes are used to optimize NGMS resources.

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering, science or other relevant STEM area plus 8 or m