Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.
What You'll Get To Do:
• Designs manufacturing processes and procedures for Electro-Mechanical assemblies and production equipment.
• Designs sequence of operations and specified procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
• May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan. Inspects performance of equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.
• Develops manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop those techniques.
• Provides guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
• Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.
• Performs 6S support, tracks yield, scrap, and parts consumption for assembly efforts.
• Creates Work Plans for Electro-Mechanical products within shop floor control system.
• Works closely with production floor supervisor, quality, and design engineering and supports day-to-day production activities.
• Complete understanding of assembly level build hierarchy.
• Understands and interprets engineering drawings and recommend design changes to ease product manufacturability
• Assisting with On-the-Job Training of new personnel
• Experience in the implementation of Lean Manufacturing techniques across manufacturing environment
Northrop Grumman is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer 3, who will support the Production Organization based in San Diego, CA.
Basic Qualifications Manufacturing Engineer 3:
BS in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other related STEM Technical field with a minimum of 5 years industry experience.
Experience reading and interpreting engineering drawings
Experience in computer assisted design software (SolidWorks/CATIA)
Experience drafting, maintaining, and modifying work instructions and/or process specifications
Experience with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
Hands on experience in programing, sustaining, and troubleshooting Electronics Manufacturing Equipment
Experience in Electro-Mechanical manufacturing processes.
Experience in dispositioning non conformances
SAP (MRP) and Solumina or equivalent shop floor system experience
US Citizenship
Ability of obtain and maintain US Secret Clearance
Preferred Qualifications Manufacturing Engineer 3
SAP (MRP) and Solumina or equivalent shop floor system experience
Experience with J-STD and MIL-STD requirements.
Experience with continuous improvement, Six Sigma and Lean methodologies in a manufacturing environment.
Hands on experience in programing, sustaining, and troubleshooting Electronics Manufacturing Equipment (Reflow Oven, Pick and Place, Ribbon Bonding, and Airvac/Selective Solder)
What We Can Offer You
Northrop Grumman provides a comprehensive benefits package and a work environment that encourages your growth and supports the mutual success of our people and our company. Northrop Grumman benefits give you the flexibility and control to choose the benefits that make the most sense for you and your family.
Your benefits will include the following: Health Plan, Savings Plan, Paid Time Off, and Additional Benefits, including Education Assistance and Training.
Primary Level Salary Range: $103,600.00 - $155,400.00The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM field
- Minimum 5 years of industry experience
- Experience reading and interpreting engineering drawings
- Experience with computer-assisted design software such as SolidWorks or CATIA
- Experience drafting, maintaining, and modifying work instructions or process specifications
- Experience with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
- Hands-on experience programming, sustaining, and troubleshooting electronics manufacturing equipment
- Experience with electro-mechanical manufacturing processes
- Experience dispositioning nonconformances
- Experience with SAP MRP and Solumina or an equivalent shop-floor system
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance
- Experience with J-STD and MIL-STD requirements
- Experience with continuous improvement, Six Sigma, and Lean methodologies in a manufacturing environment
- Hands-on experience programming, sustaining, and troubleshooting reflow ovens, pick-and-place machines, ribbon bonding, and Airvac/selective solder equipment
Northrop Grumman Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Northrop Grumman and has not been reviewed or approved by Northrop Grumman.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) matching is considered strong, with additional defined-benefit coverage for certain cohorts and options like catch-up contributions. Retirement programs are repeatedly highlighted as a core strength of the total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO, company-paid holidays, and compressed work schedules (such as 9/80) provide meaningful time away and flexibility. These scheduling options are cited as a major quality-of-life benefit across many locations.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave alongside caregiver leave, adoption assistance, and back-up care supports a range of family needs. These programs have been expanded recently, signaling continued investment in family support.
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What We Do
We are a close-knit community of big thinkers collaborating to keep the world safe. Our passion, creativity and expertise bring next-level technology solutions to life in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, strike, space, and logistics and modernization for our customers around the globe. On the Northrop Grumman team, you’ll join our pursuit of excellence immersed in a dynamic culture of innovation and respect. Your unique perspective will help achieve our shared vision for the future of global security. Every step of the way, you'll be supported by world-class training, employee resource groups and a comprehensive benefits package that enables greater health and happiness for you and your family. Worldwide and across disciplines, we’re challenging what’s possible for technology to protect people and places from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace. And we see the impact of our performance every day. We are Northrop Grumman, and we work on what matters—now, you too can make a difference. Explore opportunities in engineering, IT, manufacturing, business management, cybersecurity and more with us. Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.






