Industrial Engineering Manager 2

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret 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 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 is in need of an Industrial Engineering Manager 2 to work at its Elkton, Maryland facility.    Northrop Grumman Propulsion Systems and Controls (PS&C) facility in Elkton, Maryland began solid-propellant rocket operations in 1948. Today, the Elkton PS&C facility designs, develops, and produces solid-propellant propulsion and ordnance systems in programs professionally managed for a wide variety of Government and commercial customers. The facility also serves as the hub for offsite engineering and test facilities in Ronkonkoma, NY and Palm Beach Gardens, FL.   Elkton, Maryland is located on the Upper Chesapeake Bay, midway between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Discover charming small towns, parks with miles of trails, specialty and antique shops, award winning restaurants, and inns.  You can hike, bike, camp, bird watch, ride horseback, or drop a fishing line.  Five rivers, Chesapeake Bay and the C&D Canal can be explored by boat or by land. Experience panoramic views from Turkey Point Lighthouse on a bluff overlooking the Bay, or from the banks of the C&D Canal where ships from around the globe cruise. https://www.ccgov.org/government/tourism   The Industrial Engineering Manager builds, develops, and mentors a high‑performing industrial engineering team that supports the Elkton production system. This role provides strategic direction for the analysis and design of operations—optimizing workflows, standards, and equipment layouts to improve efficiency, increase throughput, and eliminate bottlenecks across the production system.   The manager owns and governs methods and standards that optimize the utilization of facilities, equipment, and personnel—in partnership with Manufacturing, Quality, and Facilities—to strengthen safety culture, reduce cost, increase throughput, and improve product quality across plant operations. They drive improvements and ensure findings translate into practical, repeatable solutions.   The role champions continuous improvement activity by applying lean methodology and design‑for‑manufacturing principles to adopt and standardize practices that are sustained across the production system.  The manager sets expectations for standardized use of operational data and simulation tools to develop visual factory metrics, drive data‑based decisions, and manages site capacity and utilization modeling – providing true capacity‑based site planning/scheduling grounded in throughput, capacity, and capability analyses.    The position also drives material‑handling and WIP reduction improvements, supports automation and robotics deployment, and ensures robust TPM practices for critical equipment. Additionally, the manager leads early‑stage Design for Manufacturing (DFM) activities in collaboration with program design teams to ensure new designs align with future capacit