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Manufacturing/Process Engineer 2/3
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Maryland-Baltimore
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About the role
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 Mission Systems Sector has an immediate need for Manufacturing Process Engineers to support the Final Assembly areas within manufacturing. The primary location is our Linthicum, MD facility. Manufacturing Process Engineers have responsibilities that include, but are not limited to: Factory Support: • Monitoring process performance; optimizing and implementing improvements to ensure stable and expected outputs; collaborating with multiple manufacturing teams in using lean and continuous improvement tools • Resolving technical manufacturing disruptions related to materials, designs, equipment and tooling, training and instructions; collaborating with design engineers to resolve technical problems • Training new personnel on processes and designing training materials; assisting the build team to meet the requirements of J-STD-001, IPC-610, IPC-620, and relevant MIL-STDs • Supporting factory maintenance personnel with the troubleshooting and repair of process equipment Process Development: • Developing new, optimizing, maintaining and improving, manufacturing processes, and parameters, to achieve affordable and reliable production capabilities • Identifying process-required or product-specific tools and equipment; creating custom tools and fixtures and documenting designs • Providing data required to develop capacity models, workspace layouts, and product workflow routings • Specifying new manufacturing equipment for production; leading deployment to ensure factory compliance and readiness for production • Identifying new technologies that achieve required capabilities or capacities, developing ROI justification for technology deployments or process improvements • Creating and maintaining process documentation and assembly work instructions from complex engineering drawings and parts lists • Creating and managing project plans (tasks, resources and schedules) for process development activities and new equipment implementations Design and Engineering Support: • Performing producibility reviews of new product designs; recommending product design changes to improve manufacturability; training design engineers to assess designs for manufacturability • Utilizing Design to Cost (DTC), Design for Manufacturing (DFM), and Design for Automation (DFA) tools to deliver cost-effective and producible products • Documenting state-of-the-art process capabilities and guidelines for product designers Miscellaneous: • Providing supplier support, as needed, to resolve supplier issues in meeting process and product requirements • Providing Request for Proposal (RFP) inputs, specifically as it relates to Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) and material requirements for tooling, capital equipment and/or new process development and documentation • Travelling to suppliers and cu