Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Sector has an opening for a Principal Manufacturing Engineering to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals.
This position is located in El Segundo, CA. This position is responsible for supply base technical management related to acquiring military hardware requirements. This position requires a motivated self-starter able to work independently and as a team player who can multi-task and communicate effectively with varying levels of program.
Responsibilities:
- Provide sourcing recommendation to general procurement and major subcontract internal customers utilizing strategic sourcing tools.
- Identifying and on-boarding new sources of supply for assigned commodities.
- Conducting capability assessments, performing supplier audits and performance monitoring of suppliers for assigned commodities.
- Support of mechanical commodities in strategic sourcing group.
- Travel required up to 25%.
Required Skills:
- Working knowledge of at least one of the following commodities: Machined parts, Machined Structures, Composites, Sheet Metal, Tooling
- Work effectively with engineering, quality, and GSC organizations to help resolve technical supplier challenges
- Support successful execution with Global Supply Chain and Supplier Quality organizations through the source selection and acquisition cycles.
Basic Qualifications Level 3:
- Bachelor’s Degree is Science and 5 years of relevant engineering experience in procurement support, tooling evaluation, and technical liaison roles ; or Masters Degree and 3 years of relevant engineering experience in procurement support, tooling evaluation, and technical liaison roles
- Support successful execution with Global Supply Chain and Supplier Quality organizations through the source selection and acquisition cycles.
- Demonstrated experience in interpreting engineering drawings and CAD models for fabrication of parts.
- Model based experience with Siemens NX and/or CATIA and PLM environments.
- Experience using SAP, Windows software packages, and databases to fetch data.
Preferred Experiences:
- Prior operational manufacturing experience for fabrication and/or assembly.
- Understanding of post-production processing requirement and familiarity with NADCAP (i.e., Chemical, Heat Treat, paint …)
- ASME Y14.5 GD&T certification
- In-depth experienced navigating transactions in SAP to extract data.
- Knowledge of FAR & DFAR requirements
- Knowledge of ISO 9001/AS9100 requirements
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S Government Secret clearance.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in science and 5 years of relevant engineering experience in procurement support, tooling evaluation, and technical liaison roles; or a master’s degree and 3 years of relevant experience
- Working knowledge of machined parts, machined structures, composites, sheet metal, or tooling
- Experience resolving technical supplier challenges with engineering, quality, and global supply chain organizations
- Experience interpreting engineering drawings and CAD models for part fabrication
- Model-based experience with Siemens NX and/or CATIA and PLM environments
- Experience using SAP, Windows software packages, and databases to retrieve data
- Prior operational manufacturing experience in fabrication or assembly
- Understanding of post-production processing requirements and familiarity with NADCAP
- ASME Y14.5 GD&T certification
- In-depth experience navigating SAP transactions to extract data
- Knowledge of FAR and DFAR requirements
- Knowledge of ISO 9001 and AS9100 requirements
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret clearance
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