Manufacturing Project Engineer

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Northrop Grumman is currently seeking an experienced Manufacturing Project Engineer to join a team responsible for International Design to Production Transition Programs with the Defense Sector team in the Plymouth, MN offices.

Location:

This position requires on-site support. Selected candidate will need to be within commuting distance to our site in Plymouth, MN. Relocation assistance for non-local candidates may not be available.

This career opportunity is a great fit for self-motivated, proactive individual who wants to plan and run projects for the Northrop Grumman Medium Caliber Ammunition Co-Production team.  Our engineers work in a high exposure, fast paced, and exciting environment that involves hands-on technical challenges, problem solving, and inter-department collaborations.  The candidate shall also apply strong engineering fundamentals, demonstrate clear communication with those they interact with, and must be able to support up to 50% domestic and international travel for the duration of the program.  If you thrive on attention to detail and want different challenges each day, this is the place for you.

Position Description:

• Ensures pertinent design factors such as contractual, environmental, cost, schedule, technical performance, system integration, producibility, interchangeability, and material requirements are considered during development and program execution.
• Works with design, project, manufacturing, and quality engineers through the development process and ensures timely flow of information among and between engineering team members.
• Directs daily work activities for a small team (5-7 engineers).
• Develops schedules and provides oversight for several concurrent small internal projects.
• Works closely with the existing systems engineering and QMS processes to ensure proper rigor and technical acumen is applied throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Supports Engineering/Program Manager as a control account manager to ensure accurate schedule and cost tracking.
• Presents work products at program reviews, proposals, or other project meetings.
• Prepares and plans cost estimates and written technical proposals.
• Acts as a technical interface to external customers, and forms working relationships with representatives of external technical organizations.
• Supports manufacturing trade studies and early supplier involvement.
• Demonstrated project management skills and techniques including work breakdown structures, integrated master scheduling and earned value management. 
• Experience writing statements of work and estimating project scope.
• Will involve sometimes stepping into other roles when needed.

Responsibilities include:

• Communicating issues and status frequently and effectively both verbally and in writing
• Technical understanding of mechanical systems and manufacturing processes.
• Accountable for the successful completion of Design to Production Transition engineering projects.
• Requires extensive regular contact with assigned project customers, both internal and external.
• Assist in the preparation of engineering project proposals.
• Participating in customer meetings and resolving engineering and management project issues.
• Design or update manufacturing and assembly process documents.
• Read, understand, and modify equipment/machinery and product drawings and specifications, in both production and testing environments.
• Generate and maintain lists of open issues and diligently track them to resolution.
• Perform failure analysis of physical and functional test results when results do not meet requirements.

Basic Qualifications

• This position emphasizes skills first.
• Must have 6 years of experience in manufacturing and production of mechanical components and/or systems.
  • Will consider a bachelor’s degree in engineering plus 2 or more years of experience, or master’s degree plus 0 experience.
• 2+ years of Project Engineering experience.
• Small team leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering or related STEM area.
• 10 years of relevant professional experience
• Experience in a manufacturing environment. 
• Experience managing or leading projects and/or people. 
• Familiarity with Design of Equipment, Tooling, Process Development and Manufacturing Process.
• Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
• Fluency in MS Office software applications

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