Northrop Grumman Mission Systems sector is seeking a qualified candidate to join the engineering leadership team as a Manager Manufacturing Systems Engineering 2 located in Salt Lake City, UT. To be successful, the manager must demonstrate a highly engaging leadership style, have excellent teamwork and collaboration skills, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
What you'll get to do:
- Manage manufacturing Test Engineering support for the systems factory.
- Test procedures development and maintenance over manufacturing test operations.
- Continuing process improvement based on data driven metrics.
- Interface with and build relationships across organizations in Salt Lake City, Woodland Hills and other NGC sites.
- Organization representative to program office and external customer as needed.
- Supervise a team of engineers including but not limited to performance evaluations, goal setting, and developing a strategic vision for the team.
The ideal candidate must have good presentation skills with the ability to communicate written and verbally, demonstrate the ability to lead technical projects, including project scope management, budget, schedule, and overall execution.
Basic qualifications for the Manager Systems Manufacturing Engineering 2:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or directly related STEM discipline with 8 years of engineering experience; or Master’s degree with 6 years of engineering experience.
- Experience collaborating with teams and/project leadership.
- 2 or more years of experience with leading individuals or projects.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience with database queries techniques.
- Experience with standard Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- U.S. Citizenship required.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- SAP experience.
- People Management experience.
- Automated test experience both in terms of equipment design and test process implementation
- Experience in a high regulatory environment such DoD, FAA or FDA.
- Experience using data for decision making.
- Root Cause Corrective Actions experience.
- Six Sigma experience.
- Experience with electromechanical assembly.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a directly related STEM discipline with 8 years of engineering experience, or a master's degree with 6 years of engineering experience
- Experience collaborating with teams and project leadership
- At least 2 years of experience leading individuals or projects
- Experience in a manufacturing environment
- Experience with database query techniques
- Experience with Microsoft Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
- SAP experience
- People management experience
- Automated test experience involving equipment design and test process implementation
- Experience in a highly regulated environment such as DoD, FAA, or FDA
- Experience using data for decision-making
- Root Cause Corrective Actions experience
- Six Sigma experience
- Experience with electromechanical assembly
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