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Principal Microelectronics Semiconductor Manufacturing Engineer/Sr. Principal Microelectronics Semiconductor Manufacturing Engineer
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Maryland-Elkridge
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: None TRAVEL: No 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 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 Manufacturing Operations Engineering Team in Baltimore/Elkridge, MD seeks a Principal Microelectronics Semiconductor Manufacturing Engineer / Sr. Principal Microelectronics Semiconductor Manufacturing Engineer to join our team. This is a 2nd shift position. This career opportunity is a great fit for Engineers who want to design and refine manufacturing processes to ensure they are operating smoothly and efficiently . Our engineers work in a high exposure, fast paced, and exciting environment that involves “hands on” technical challenges, problem solving, and inter-department collaborations. If you thrive on solving problems and want different challenges each day, please read on! We are seeking manufacturing engineers who are passionate about designing and creating manufacturing processes that enable rapid product delivery schedules with the highest quality. The microelectronics semiconductor manufacturing engineer will support our highly automated SMT manufacturing environment. Manufacturing engineers are the process owners who have responsibility for ensuring successful delivery of production hardware. Process development, equipment support, and analysis of failure trends, root cause/ corrective actions. What You'll Get to Do : • Design, develop, and implement manufacturing processes related to SMT routing and manufacturing • Troubleshoot and support complex manufacturing equipment • Compile data and analyze manufacturing process for process control • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to develop and implement process improvements and solutions • Support operators and technicians through troubleshooting and training • Monitor product yields and maintain program yield targets • Support program meetings in developing root cause and corrective actions • Attend program meetings to report yield issues, yield detractor investigation finding, and corrective actions • Interface with manufacturing management, technicians, production engineers, design engineers, system engineers, program management and program support teams The successful candidate will have experience and knowledge of manufacturing engineering and Lean Six Sigma concepts. They will have analytical skills to review requirements, engineering drawings, and translate into manufacturing processes that produce conforming products. They should be self-directed, organized, team oriented with an ability to effectively communicate across teams, and have previous experience with MS Office tools. For this more senior role, technical leadership paired with effective collaboration with other subject matter experts will be key. This is a 2nd shift position. This position may be filled as either level 3 or level 4. Basic Qualifications for the Principal Microelectronics Semiconductor Engineer Manufactur