Manufacturing Engineer

About the Role

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems (NGAS) is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to join their team in Palmdale, CA. The role requires on-site support and involves working collaboratively within the Manufacturing Engineering Team to promote a positive and proactive teamwork environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide guidance to Engineering on design concepts to ensure optimal manufacturing techniques.
• Participate in tool design reviews to ensure feasibility, reduce build times, and lower program costs during assembly.
• Define sequence of operations for product builds.
• Investigate and initiate corrective actions for non-conforming product.
• Identify improvement opportunities for producibility and affordability initiatives.
• Provide liaison support for Engineering to influence low production costs for integrated assembly related to electrical, hydraulics, fuels, fluids, and propulsion systems.
• Provide technical solutions to a wide range of complex and difficult problems, delivering innovative, thorough, and practical results.
• Act as the technical representative voice for the Manufacturing organization.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's Degree with 1 year of experience in engineering, production assembly/fabrication (including composites, metallic, coatings application, and/or production manufacturing operations), OR Master's Degree with 0 years of experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
• Ability to interface and communicate with multiple levels of leadership, clients, and vendors.
• Experience reviewing and interpreting Blueprints and 3-D models.
• Ability to work 1st shift (5am-3:30pm) or 2nd shift (4:12pm-2:42am), and/or any work schedule (times may vary).
• Ability to travel up to 10%.
• Requires an active in-scope U.S. Government Secret security clearance granted/renewed within the past 5 years.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain Program Special Access within a reasonable period.
• Ability to traverse units/products and operate in a manufacturing/production environment, including tooling, stands, ladders, and steps, while wearing appropriate PPE.
• Ability to occasionally enter confined spaces.
• Ability to work for extended periods (up to 10 hours/shift) at a workstation on a computer or similar device.
• Occasional extended periods of standing, bending, kneeling.
• Ability to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) including steel-toed shoes, gloves, safety glasses, hearing protection, protective jacket or apron, and arm guards.
• Ability to wear a respirator is a condition of employment (requires little or no facial hair).
• Ability to access and navigate all areas in the facility and machinery.
• Ability to lift 15 pounds at times.

Qualifications

• STEM Degree (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics)
• Working knowledge of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
• Experience working hands-on in a production/manufacturing assembly line environment.
• Composite experience and process knowledge.
• Experience providing innovative techniques focused on improving product designs and tooling assemblies or equipment.