Sr Principal Engineer Process - R10227481

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
No

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 sector is looking for you to join our team as a Sr. Principal Manufacturing Process Engineer located on-site in Rolling Meadows, IL
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This position will support product build in a dynamic, fast-paced and technically challenging environment in support of Radio Frequency systems, requiring collaboration across functional groups.

Manufacturing Engineers thrive in an environment of daily unique challenges and close proximity to products. Partnering with production, successful process / test / industrial engineers lead troubleshooting and ensure excellence in hardware and software. Engineers who do well in this setting enjoy seeing their work perform in a test or a product, collaborate and communicate well across functions, and are innovative problem solvers.

Best suited to this role are those who enjoy learning and bring a sense of urgency and energy to their tasks.

Building a strong professional relationship with other manufacturing disciplines (Process Engineering, Project Management, Shop Operations, Mission Assurance), strong decision-making skills and a high-level ethical standard is essential.

• Takes high levels of Self-accountability and Ownership
• Acts with Speed
• Responds to Challenges with Resilience
• Leads with Courage
• Sets vision for the assigned products
• Builds a High Performing Team

This position would include providing process support for the manufacture of the Shop Replaceable Units. This position will support aerial, military-grade, or space-grade Electronic Warfare Systems and Subsystems.

• Support to Production:
  Coordinate with Design Engineering, Production technician, Project Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Quality organizations to meet manufacturing contractual commitment. Investigate, design, and provide solutions to support nonconformance repair procedures.
• Process Development/Maintenance:
  Generate and maintain/revise Manufacturing Engineering Process Specifications, Work Instructions, Routers, Tooling/Fixturing and Equipment.
• Continuous improvement:
  Review quality metrics to identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to reduce cost, cycle time, defects.
• Producibility reviews:
  Collaborate with design engineering to achieve producibility in new and updated product design.
• Ability to interface/communicate with multiple levels of leadership, clients, and vendors.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering or related STEM field with a minimum of 9 years relevant work experience; OR a Master of Science (MS) degree in a related STEM field with 7 or more years of relevant work experience in equivalent fields.
• Experience interpreting drawings and…