CAD​/CAM Engineering Manager

Company Overview

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact peoples 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.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.

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. Northrop Grumman is committed to creating a culture that fosters an inclusive environment where individuals feel respected, valued and empowered to thrive.

We are looking for you to join our team as a CAD/CAM Engineering Manager 2 based out of Sunnyvale, CA. In this role at Northrop Grumman, you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide Hardware Engineering Organization. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, Agile practices and robust engineering, we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter.

Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

• Manage the CAD (Computer Aided Design) drafting group within the Sunnyvale Marine Systems Engineering Department, overseeing up to 12 direct reports to create solid models and drawings using CREO with Windchill and NX with Teamcenter.
• Develop 2D/3D layouts, create detailed manufacturing drawings and revise existing CAD models, drawings and electronic images.
• Apply knowledge of design, modeling and drawing practices and guide your team to solve design issues with the Engineering team.
• Coordinate drafting needs with engineering managers, project engineers and program managers.

• Manage workflow in the team to meet cost budgets and schedule deadlines.
• Maintain appropriate staffing levels that commensurate with dynamic workloads.
• Establish and maintain standards and procedures for generation of models and associated drawings.
• Collaborate with configuration management to ensure proper data configuration control, managing CAD software configuration.
• Plan and manage employee training and development, and employee performance evaluations.
• Develop and collect metrics to support cost estimating for future work.
• Develop plan to increase first time quality of group and conform to ASME requirements.

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM with a minimum of 8 years related experience or Master's Degree in STEM with 6 years related experience.
• Must have demonstrated leadership and team‑building experience.
• Fundamental Configuration Management Principles knowledge.
• Experience with CAD Modeling in CREO and NX.
• Experience with PLM systems, Windchill and Teamcenter.
• Thorough understanding of Model Based Engineering (MBE).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship required.

Primary Level Salary Range: $ – $. The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate’s experience, education, skills and current spanet conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift…