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Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Principal / Senior Principal Industrial Engineer

Manufacturing EngineeringUpdated on Nov 3
Full-timeRoy, UT, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing operations, production planning, or proposal estimating in aerospace, defense, or complex manufacturing.
  • Experience developing bases of estimate, labor estimates, staffing plans, capacity models, or proposal inputs.
  • Strong Excel modeling, presentation, and written communication skills.
  • Working knowledge of manufacturing flow, production scheduling, capacity, and how shop floor execution interfaces with supply chain and quality.
  • An active U.S. Government Department of Defense Secret security clearance at application, current and within scope, and the ability to obtain a U.S. Government Department of Defense Top Secret security clearance and Special Access Program approval.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program approval within a reasonable period, as determined by the company to meet its business need.

Responsibilities

  • Support production activities for the Command Systems Team.
  • Apply industrial engineering fundamentals including production intervals, cycle time, takt time, standard hour content, time studies, Earned Value Management System, continuous improvement, scheduling, capacity analysis, and facility layouts.
  • Understand capacity principles, including efficiencies, standards, and constraints.
  • Understand manufacturing flows and their interfaces with the shop floor and Global Supply Chain.
  • Create Shop Operation Plans for production units and track daily shop floor performance.
  • Create recovery schedules for the production floor.
  • Understand labor standard development and work measurement, and create standard hour content for new scope.
  • Perform shop floor time studies on manufacturing and test activities.
  • Work with the functional team to understand scheduling requirements at implementation sites.
  • Create detailed manufacturing waterfall schedules with setbacks to independent demands.
  • Use process improvement methodologies such as value stream mapping, employee engagement techniques, and flow reduction.
  • Design and optimize shop floor and facility layouts.
  • Understand cost management principles, including Earned Value and milestone payments.
  • Conduct Manufacturing Readiness Assessments with suppliers.
  • Collaborate with product teams and functional organizations, from individual contributors to executive staff, to obtain, understand, and interpret manufacturing facilitation and scheduling requirements.
  • Document, track, and monitor problems to ensure timely resolution.
  • Coordinate with larger teams at different site locations.
  • Create and present technical briefings for upper management and technical leadership.

Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering.
  • Experience in the aerospace and defense industry.
  • Experience working in the Engineering, Manufacturing, and Development phase of a program.
  • Experience working in a production environment and on a shop floor.
  • Knowledge of SAP, Manufacturing Execution Systems, AutoCAD, and FlexSim or other discrete simulation programs.
  • Ability to create and automate industrial engineering performance metrics.
  • Experience with project management and manufacturing schedules.
  • Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, and Visio.

About the Company

Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Northrop Grumman builds military aircraft, missiles, rocket motors, satellites, and electronic systems, mostly for the American military and allied governments. It designed the B-2 stealth bomber and built NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope ever sent to space. The company works through four businesses: aircraft, missiles and ammunition, radar and communications systems, and space hardware such as satellites and solid rocket boosters. Most revenue comes from long-term government contracts, many of them classified. Its roots go back to Northrop Aircraft, founded in 1939, and it took its name after buying Grumman in 1994 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Falls Church, VA
Founded
1939

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