Principal/Sr. Principal Factory Control Engineer - R10215408
Listed on 2025-12-09
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineering
Principal / Sr. Principal Factory Change Control Engineer
Location:
Linthicum, MD. Relocation assistance may be available. Clearance type:
Polygraph. Travel:
Yes, 10% of the time.
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 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—fueling an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible.
This role supports advanced technology development programs within Northrop Grumman Mission Systems’ Engineering and Sciences organization, providing expertise in creating, implementing, and maintaining change control processes for manufacturing and production lines.
This is a dual-level requisition that can be filled as a Principal or Senior Principal Factory Change Control Engineer.
What You’ll Get To Do- Create procedures and best practices for implementing controlled changes for various components within a new Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) system, including Engineering Change Notices (ECNs), document control, product specification limit management, operating procedure and certification management.
- Contribute to projects aimed at optimizing and standardizing factory system setup procedures, change implementation, and training plans.
- Work collaboratively with other engineering teams to understand the needs for change control.
- Help identify software and systems needed for successful change control procedures.
- A degree in a STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with a minimum of 5 years of experience with a bachelor’s degree, 3 years with a master’s degree, or 0 years with a PhD.
- Experience with modern automated factory systems in a semiconductor or microelectronics fab.
- Understanding of business processes, best practices, and QMS components for managing changes in a semiconductor or microelectronics fabrication line.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present frequent updates to management.
- Must be willing to work on site 100% of the time.
- Limited travel to local Northrop Grumman facilities may be required.
- This position requires the applicant to be a U.S. citizen.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance per business requirements.
- A degree in a STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with a minimum of 8 years of experience with a bachelor’s degree, 6 years with a master’s degree, or 4 years with a PhD.
- Experience with modern automated factory systems in a semiconductor or microelectronics fab.
- Understanding of business processes, best practices, and QMS components for managing changes in a semiconductor or microelectronics fabrication line.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present frequent updates to management.
- Must be willing to work on site 100% of the time.
- Limited travel to local Northrop Grumman facilities may be required.
- This position requires the applicant to be a U.S. citizen.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance per business requirements.
- Active US government security clearance per business requirements.
- Experience with starting up a modern automated or semi-automated new semiconductor manufacturing line.
- Experience with implementing new change control procedures.
- Experience with implementing new QMS components.
- Experience with Applied Materials Smart Factory CIM solution.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and software tools, i.e. Atlassian tools stack—Jira, Confluence.
Primary Level Salary…
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