Principal/Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer - Precision Electronics Cleaning Processes Lead

Northrop Grumman's Manufacturing Operations Engineering organization is seeking a Principal/Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer for Precision Electronics Cleaning. This person will "own" a number of different PCB cleaning processes across multiple manufacturing cells including AMEC, SMT and Feed Factory.

The Principal/Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the tasks outlined below:

• Support the manufacture and assembly of printed circuit boards through ownership and development of cleaning processes and equipment.

• Interface with Materials and Process Engineering teams as needed to resolve cleanliness issues and opportunities.

• Support process, quality, and program teams for Root Cause and Corrective Action investigations involving cleaning as a process improvement or as a possible cause of failure.

• Provide cleaning subject matter expertise and consulting to other areas of the sector as needed.

• Support training and evaluation of process operators and engineers for local cleaning after manual soldering, including touch-up and rework.

• Review and provide instruction for non-standard cleaning processes on rework and repair of printed circuit boards.

• Collaborate with tooling team in the development of required tooling to support cleaning operations.

• Support cleaning research and development projects as well as the justification and purchase of capital equipment.

• Evaluate new cleaning chemistries for various cleaning processes.

• Collaborate with Environmental, Health, and Safety team.

• Evaluate cleanliness of as-received as well as in-process components.

• Maintain supporting documentation as needed to meet J-STD-001 requirements.

This position may be filled as a Principal Engineer or a Senior Principal Engineer based on the requirements below. 

Basic Qualifications for a Principal Engineer:

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Chemical Engineering or related STEM area, with minimum 5 years of professional experience or a Master's Degree and 3 years of professional work experience

• Experience cleaning printed circuit boards and associated microelectronic components and materials

• Experience with various cleaning processes such as aqueous in-line and aqueous batch cleaning, burnishing, mechanical abrasion, media blasting, lapping, solvents, vapor degrease, plasma clean, manual FOD picking, alcohol, acid etch, ultrasonic, and nitrogen blast

• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Secret Security Clearance. US Citizenship is required.

Basic Qualifications for a Senior Principal Engineer:

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Chemical Engineering or related STEM area, with minimum 9 years of professional experience or a Master's Degree and 7 years of professional work experience

• Experience cleaning printed circuit boards and associated microelectronic components and materials

• Experience with various cleaning processes such as aqueous in-line and aqueous batch cleaning, burnishing, mechanical abrasion, media blasting, lapping, solvents, vapor degrease, plasma clean, manual FOD picking, alcohol, acid etch, ultrasonic, and nitrogen blast

• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Secret Security Clearance. US Citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with J-STD, MIL-STD and Space Class hardware requirements.

• Experience with automated equipment and transport systems 

• Experience with the design or manufacturing of microelectronics technology and materials

• Process/Manufacturing Engineering experience

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