Principal Engineer Packaging​/Sr. Principal Engineer Packaging; Level 3​/R10229736

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No

CLEARANCE TYPE:
None

TRAVEL:
Yes, 25% 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. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future.

Location:

Redondo Beach, CA

• Designs, develops, and tests a wide variety of containers used for the protection, display, and handling of products.
• Determines packaging specifications according to the nature of the product, cost limitations, legal requirements, and the type of protection required, considering need for resistance to such external variables as moisture, corrosive chemicals, temperature variations, light, heat, rough handling, and tampering.
• Designs package exteriors considering such factors as product identification, sales appeal, aesthetic quality, printing, and production techniques. Responsibilities may include documentation management and an understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).
• Reviews contract requirements to meet packaging requirements, designs packaging handling, storage, and transportability (PHS&T) devices, and creates packaging instructions based on military (MIL-STD-2073) and commercial (ASTM) standards.
• Performs moderate to complex and applied engineering analyses, adapts and modifies standard techniques and procedures as required.
• Participates in packaging design reviews to ensure packaging, handling, storage, and transportability engineering concepts are customer compliant and support capability constraints.
• Provides program hardware moves and logistics support, locally and out-of-state as required, as the operational lead/move captain, and is responsible for establishing the move line of command, assessing the move, preparing communication plans and other move preparation prerequisites, move execution, and provides follow‑up for logistics operations.
• Plans complex logistics operations as it pertains to determining required personnel, transportation and material handling equipment, timeline of significant events, oversize load/overweight permit requests, and other key requirements to make operations successful, including hardware movement by land, air, and ocean.
• Participates in Pre‑ship Readiness Reviews, led by Mission Assurance, to ensure packaging and logistics completeness and readiness of each item of hardware prior to release for shipment to another facility.
• Creates, revises, and maintains drawings and specifications for container/pallet packaging requirements.
• Leads point‑of‑operation training and proficiency evaluation training role for transportability personnel with respect to powered industrial equipment (e.g., forklifts, tugs, overhead cranes).
• Leads and serves as focal point for developing, writing, and reviewing program proposals, including proposal management as required for packaging engineering material requirements, labor staffing, and material cost efforts.
• Creates Basis of Estimates (BOE) for packaging labor, container costs, logistics support, for complex projects based on information from contract requirements and leveraging historical program data.

• Travel offsite and support as required.
• Supports the coordination and execution of the transportation of equipment and supplies between on‑site and off‑site locations using aircraft, ground vehicles, and sea vessels, ensuring all movements comply with safety, security, and regulatory standards.
• Supports the logistics of loading, unloading, and securing cargo on various transport modes, including the preparation of manifest documentation, weight‑and‑balance calculations for aircraft, and compliance with customs and import/export regulations for maritime shipments.
• Conducts site assessments and briefings to identify any special handling, environmental, or operational considerations that may affect the movement of equipment or personnel.
• Ensures all…