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Northrop Grumman · 2 months ago

Principal Engineer Energetics Manufacturing - R10214073

Elkton, MD

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$105K/yr - $158K/yr

5+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company seeking a Principal Engineer in Energetics Manufacturing to support their Elkton, Maryland facility. The role involves providing manufacturing support, establishing manufacturing lines for new products, conducting continuous improvement activities, and ensuring safety and operational efficiency in production processes.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Provide manufacturing support to operations to meet quality, delivery, and cost requirements

Create, maintain and improve Process Control Documentation

Establish manufacturing lines for new products and product upgrades

Establish Lean process flow

Capacity planning…. perform capacity studies/analysis

Digital modeling/simulation when appropriate

Define facility and equipment needs

Work with facilities engineering to provide cost benefit analysis to support capital projects

Establish equipment specifications

Work with vendors for equipment run-off and installation

Assist in establishing safety requirements for new facilities and equipment

Establish Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM) requirements

Provide start-up support and initial training to operations

Establish required procedures

Provide training to maintenance personnel as required

Conduct continuous improvement activities

Lean manufacturing implementation (PES)

Assist operations with 5-S programs

Conduct Process FMEA’s

Generate process maps, flow charts, value stream maps

Establish standard work

Conduct time studies/audits

Monitor production touch labor costs and suggest/implement improvements to drive costs down

Establish Key Characteristics for manufacturing/processing and ensure systems are in place to monitor/control them

Analyze processes and equipment for process capabilities and causes of downtime. Analyze yield and scrap rate data provided by Mission Assurance to improve processes

Provide technical support for improvements

Determine root cause and corrective actions for deficiencies

Conduct process capabilities studies as required

Continually monitor processes

Generate and maintain Statistical Process Control (SPC) program for production programs

Monitor actual production vs. plan

Work with Safety to establish and adhere to safety requirements and support Hazard Analysis

Work with product/tooling engineering to establish tooling requirements

Assist in design of initial tooling and test equipment and with continuous tooling improvement

Additive manufacturing design, development, and implementation where practical

Assist operations and maintenance in troubleshooting and equipment repairs

Assist in defining product count points for financial tracking

This position falls under a Federal Explosives License issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for this location. Candidates hired into this role will be required to complete and submit an Employee Possessor Questionnaire to ATF for approval to be a possessor

Qualification

Lean manufacturingProcess Control DocumentationStatistical Process ControlAdditive manufacturingCapacity planningContinuous improvementTechnical supportSafety requirementsTraining personnel