An organization within Northrop Grumman’s Payload and Ground Systems (PGS) division, Mission Enabling Products (MEP is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, and antenna reflectors. Our products are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years. Learn more about Mission Enabling Products at our website: https://www.northropgrumman.com/space/spacecraft-components/.

Core Responsibilities:

• Develops manufacturing processes, procedures, and production layouts for assembly of spacecraft deployable mechanisms.

• Designs sequence of operations and specifies 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 machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.

• 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 and best-practices.

• This requisition may be filled at either a Manufacturing Engineer (Level 2) or a Principal Manufacturing Engineer (Level 3) grade based on the qualifications listed below.

Basic Qualifications for Manufacturing Engineer (Level 2):

• 2 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree; 0 years of relevant experience with a Masters' degree; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

• Experience resolving productivity or quality issues in a manufacturing or development environment.

• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings.

• Understanding of Design for Manufacturability (DFM).

• Ability to work as part of a cross-functional team throughout program lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Manufacturing or Systems Engineering experience with spaceflight hardware

• Experience with Root Cause & Corrective Actions (RCCA) and Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA)

• Technical leadership of complex projects.

• GD&T Geometric Dimension & Tolerancing, also known by ASME y14.

• Experience with process innovation.

• Experience with MES (Manufacturing Execution System).