Principal or Senior Principal Manufacturing Analyst

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: No

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.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. We have a wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies. Our differentiated battle management and cyber solutions deliver timely, mission-enabling information and provide superior situational awareness and understanding to protect the U.S. and its global allies.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is looking for you to join our Life Cycle Sustainment Organization (LCSO) Team as a Principal or Senior Principal Manufacturing Analyst based out of Elkridge, MD.

The Manufacturing Analyst will serve as an advisor to management and as a special external spokesperson for the organization on major matters pertaining to its policies, plans, and objectives. They will be an expert within the Production Control organization and demonstrate strong organizational, analytical, presentation, problem resolution, and process improvement skills; communicate effectively and clearly using technical approaches and findings; be comfortable communicating with internal and external customers, including with cross-functional teams; and contribute to the development of new techniques, standards and training.

The Manufacturing Analyst will have demonstrated leadership, critical thinking and innovative behaviors from past projects, roles or experiences and the ability to effectively manage changing and conflicting priorities and resolve appropriately in a challenging environment.

What You’ll Get to Do:

• Plan, organize, and drive the timely flow of product through Manufacturing to support internal and external customer delivery requirements

• Manage and provide schedule status and visibility of hardware for assigned programs, from the time of initial kit conversion, through manufacturing process, to delivery of hardware to internal and/or external customers

• Collaborate with suppliers, MRP group, manufacturing, program management, and operations management to ensure performance metrics are met and reported to leadership monthly (on time to release, maintaining last touch average of 15 days, out of cycle average age under 75 days, quality, cost, on time to delivery, etc.)

• Utilize Tableau and other systems to analyze and maintain SAP metric, i.e. Aging Orders, and Overdue hours, 'Confirmed not Delivered' orders, floor stock inventory control, and the resolving of material shortages as they’re late to open production orders

• Determine stock availability, assess material source (in-house vs external) and requirements for non-standard parts, and create acquisition requests

• Analyze lead times and identify critical path procurements

• Initiate material procurement and manage procurement processing

• Review material depletion analysis to provide specific recommendations for spare/repair parts and support equipment positioning

• Manage and control asset locations and allocation of customer inventories and Government Furnished Equipment (GFE)

• Monitor inventory and material allocations for accuracy

• Support various DOD and commercial customers in a depot environment

This requisition may be filled as a Principal Manufacturing Analyst or a Senior Principal Manufacturing Analyst.

Basic Qualifications for the Principal Manufacturing Analyst:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years of experience in Manufacturing, Materials, MRP, Production Control, Supply Chain or related field or a Master’s degree and a minimum of 3 years of experience in Manufacturing, Materials, MRP, Production Control, Supply Chain or related field

• Experience with MRP/ERP business system experience (SAP preferred)