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Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Principal or Sr. Principal Industrial Engineer. This position will be located in Roy, UT and will support the Strategic Deterrent Systems (SDS) Division.  This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You’ll Get To Do: 

This selected candidate supports the use of the SDS Engineering Tool Suite to enabled horizontal collaboration from a Industrial Engineering perspective. Candidate will perform analyzes and designs sequence of operations and work flow to improve efficiencies in plant and production facilities and equipment layouts; and establishes methods for maximum utilization of production facilities and personnel. May establish or assist in establishing accident prevention measures and may manage training programs for personnel concerning all phases of production operations. Conducts studies pertaining to cost control, cost reduction, inventory control, and production record systems. On the basis of these studies, develops and implements plans and programs for facility modifications and revisions to operating methods. May assist facilities engineers in the Works under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives.

Here are a few of the associated tasks to this role:

• Develop, maintain, teach, and enforce process and procedures for Industrial Engineering and Production in core tools, CPLM/TcMfg. SAP/ERP, and MES systems.

• Coordination with all teams to utilize SAP Material Resource Planning (MRP) effectively with regards to the Master Production Schedule (MPS)

• Enforce core system best practices to enable effective downstream use.

• Participate on a team of Subject Matter Experts through testing of the PLM/ERP/MES Systems and its integrations with other systems.

• Assist with implementation of new Business Processes related to PLM/ERP/MES and its integrated systems.

• Support Manufacturing Operations in Produce Product Package (PPP) creation and delivery.

• Test PLM/ERP/MES when new development is released, and to troubleshoot issues programs are seeing.

• Evaluate current process and procedures to enhance and automate.

• Develop Level 1 support team with in the IPTs.

• Create training and desktop instructions for best practices.

• Assist in Proposal activity of new task orders and programs to utilize Production Systems.

•  Assist in stand up of new programs and task orders when using SDS Production System Architecture

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Space Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including: 

•   Medical, Dental & Vision coverage 
•   401k 
•    Educational Assistance 
•    Life Insurance 
•    Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions  
•    Paid Time Off  
•    Health & Wellness Resources  
•    Employee Discounts 

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.  

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• Education and years of experience:

  • Principal: Bachelor's Degree with 5 Years with Bachelors in Science; 3 Years with Masters; 0 Years with PhD.

  • Sr. Principal: Bachelor's Degree with 9 Years with Bachelors in Science; 7 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD.

• Experience working in a digital manufacturing environment using core systems PLM/ERP/MES.

• Experience with SAP Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Grouping, Pegging, and Distribution (GPD), Production Orders, Purchase Orders (GPD), and Inventory Functionality

• Experience in a manufacturing setting

• Must be detail oriented, organized, and demonstrate a high sense of urgency

• Experience in the performance of system integration testing

• Experience writing functional specifications

• Flexible work schedule to support out of service system testing.

• Experience working with cross-functional teams

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Highly motivated self-starter, detail and quality oriented, and able to work independently

• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance or ability to gain an interim Secret clearance pre-start and a fully adjudicated Secret clearance post-start. 

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Experience in Teamcenter Manufacturing (TcMfg)

• Experience in PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) tools, preference to use of CPLM.

• Experience with database analysis

• Experience in the creation of test plans

• Experience in the performance of system integration testing

• Experience writing functional specifications

• Experience leading cross-functional teams

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