Engineer Industrial

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Put your skills to the test by pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. From global defense to sustainment and modernization to mission readiness, your experience and ability will make it a reality. Our programs are built on equal parts of curiosity and collaboration. Our combined effort means our customers can connect and defend millions of people around the world. With Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the opportunity to be an essential part of projects that will define your career, now and in the future.

We are looking for you to join our team as an Industrial Engineer based out of Apopka, FL.

As an Industrial Engineer at Northrop Grumman, you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Using Model-based Engineering and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter.  Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly, and continuously adapt to innovation.  The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilizes Data Analytics to analyze existing operational processes and develops metrics and reporting to optimize and improve program & operational performance.
• Lead efforts as Digital Transformation Champion to align Apopka's goals with sector and enterprise strategies.
• Creates new metrics and data visualizations to monitor shop floor performance.
• Analyzes lead times, queue times, work-in-process, cycle times, and throughput to meet customer demand most effectively and efficiently.
• Builds scalable and sustainable models to optimize product flow, while incorporating cost, schedule, and resource constraints.
• Develop optimized scheduling tools and align SAP/MRP systems with an executable plan given various capacity constraints.
• Communicates requirements planning and systems framework with IT, ERP, business analytics, and data science teams.
• Must be available onsite to support manufacturing and its schedule of operations.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid interpersonal and critical thinking skills.
• Solid presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate thoughts and ideas.
• Commitment to ethics and compliance.
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment.
• Ability for infrequent travel (<10%).

We offer a 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 2 or more years of industrial engineering, manufacturing, or data analysis experience; OR
  master’s degree with 0 or more years of industrial engineering, manufacturing, or data analysis experience.
• Experience in designing visualizations in Tableau.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Excel, including macros, data mining, and pivot tables or data visualization software applications.
• Experience with Visio or equivalent.
• Experience with Digital Transformation
• Experience with time studies and capacity modeling.
• Experience with Process control methods (SPC/control charts).
• Experience with Process Capability Analysis (Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk).
• U.S. citizenship
• The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with improving manufacturing workflow using optimization, modeling, or simulation methods.
• At least 1 year of demonstrated manufacturing experience.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing Methods.
• Experience with Manufacturing Execution System (MES).
• Experience with SAP S/4 HANA Cloud ERP system.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in a manufacturing environment.
• 2 years of demonstrated experience leading project teams.
• Experience with SQL, Python, VBA, or other programming languages.
• Familiarity with mixed-model manufacturing operations.
• Familiarity with workstation ergonomics.
• Experience with agile methods of project management or development.

MANUMS

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.