Engineer Manufacturing​/Principal Engineer Manufacturing - R10214816

Engineer Manufacturing (Level 2/3) – R

Location:

Chandler, AZ. Full‑time on‑site position. No relocation assistance and no hybrid or remote work. Requires DoD Secret clearance (U.S. citizenship). 10% travel.

Northrop Grumman's Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our Cables Team. As a Cables Manufacturing Engineer (Level 2 or Level 3), you will design and optimize manufacturing processes, ensuring efficient production layouts, quality compliance, and continuous improvement.

• Design manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.
• Design arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure the most efficient and productive layout.
• Design sequence of operations and specify procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
• Adapt machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.
• May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan. Inspect performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigate and initiate corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.
• Develop manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control, and may develop those techniques.
• Provide guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
• Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.

• Create cable MES build plans using templates and desktop procedures.
• Develop in‑process change records on buildsli>
• Troubleshoot and work on cause/corrective actions.
• Create design change cable build plans.
• Update MES plans when new cable drawings are released.
• Work on process improvements.

• Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 1 year of professional experience. Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance, which generally requires U.S. citizenship as a prerequisite.
• Familiarity with Root Cause and Corrective Action.
• Must have excellent communication skills and ability to work within a team environment.

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of related experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3 years of experience.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance, which generally requires U.S. citizenship as a prerequisite.
• Familiarity with Root Cause and Corrective Action.
• Must have excellent communication skills and ability to work within a team environment.

• Active DoD security clearance of Secret or above.
• Experience working with MES.
• Experience with cables.
• Familiarity with Teamcenter or Solumina.
• Adept at managing competing priorities.
• Attention to detail.

Northrop Grumman has been at the forefront of Space Launch technology for decades, conducting nearly 100 space launch missions and boosting hundreds of payloads into space.

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Work schedule:

9/80 (9 hours per day Monday‑Thursday, 8 hours every other Friday with the alternate Friday off). Primary Level Salary Range: $72,100.00 – $90,100.00. Secondary Level Salary Range: $89,400.00 – $. Salary is determined by scope of responsibilities, experience, education, skills and market conditions. Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonuses, and long‑term incentives.

Benefits include health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company‑paid holidays and paid time off for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for this job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date, although this timeline may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit  U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.