Manager Manufacturing Operations

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No

CLEARANCE TYPE:
None

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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 frontier 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 looking for you to join our team as an Manager Manufacturing Operations 3 based out of Sunnyvale, CA.

What you'll get to do:

Lead the Machine Maintenance organization and responsible for ensuring the availability, reliability, maintainability, and safe operation of manufacturing equipment and infrastructure supporting production operations. Some details:

• Provide leadership and direction to a multidisciplinary maintenance organization consisting of front-line managers, engineers, analysts, planners/schedulers, mechanics, electricians, lubrication personnel, and other technical support functions operating across multiple shifts.

• Establish and execute the Machine Maintenance strategy focused on equipment uptime, preventive maintenance (PM), predictive maintenance (PdM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), reliability engineering, and reduction of planned and unplanned downtime.

• Develop, monitor, and communicate key maintenance and reliability performance indicators, including equipment uptime, PM compliance, MTBF, MTTR, planned versus unplanned downtime, recurring failure trends, and equipment health.

• Lead root cause and corrective action (RCCA) activities for significant or recurring equipment failures and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented to improve long-term equipment reliability.

• Partner with Manufacturing, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Environmental Health & Safety, Global Supply Chain, Facilities, and Program leadership to prioritize maintenance activities and minimize production disruption.

• Develop and execute preventive and predictive maintenance strategies using equipment history, condition-monitoring data, OEM recommendations, failure trends, and reliability principles to transition the organization from reactive to proactive maintenance.

• Lead implementation and sustainment of TPM principles, including planned maintenance, equipment condition monitoring, standardized maintenance practices, operator engagement, continuous improvement, and elimination of chronic equipment losses.

• Provide leadership for the commissioning, installation, acceptance, sustainment, modernization, relocation, and decommissioning of manufacturing assets, ensuring appropriate maintenance strategies and spare-parts requirements are established throughout the equipment lifecycle.

• Manage critical manufacturing equipment recovery efforts by coordinating internal technical teams, OEMs, suppliers, and other stakeholders to establish repair strategies, recovery schedules, return-to-operation dates, and risk mitigation plans.

• Establish and maintain a strategic spare-parts and obsolescence management program for critical manufacturing equipment, including identification of long-lead, obsolete, and single-source components.

• Manage OEM and…