Cables Manufacturing Engineer (Level 2 or 3)

Cables Manufacturing Engineer

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman's Space Sector is seeking a Cables Manufacturing Engineer (Level 2 or Level 3), on our Cables Team located in Chandler, AZ where you will work closely with cable design teams and cable production teams supporting cable design, cable fabrication tools, cable testing, and inspection as well as the actual production floor builds. This position offers the opportunity to incorporate new processes into cable manufacturing build and the potential to become a primary engineer or process lead engineer.

This is a fully on-site position; hybrid or remote work is not available. Relocation is not offered.

Our Cables Manufacturing Engineers:

• Design manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.
• Design arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.
• Design sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
• Adapt machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.
• 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.
• Develop manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control, and may develop those techniques.
• Provide guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
• Ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.

In this job, you will:

• Create cable MES cable build plans from a released cable drawing with schematic and requirements for the fabrication of the cable.
• Create in-process change records on cable builds
• Troubleshoot and work Cause/Corrective Actions
• Create design change cable build plans
• Up-rev MES plans when new cable drawing releases
• Work process improvements

Required Qualifications for Level 2:

• Bachelor's degree with 2 years of related experience – OR – Master's degree with 0 years of related experience.
• Experience working with MES or similar system
• Familiarity with Root Cause and Corrective Action
• Must have excellent communication skills and ability to work within a team environment.

Required Qualifications for Level 3:

• Bachelor's degree with 5 years of related experience – OR – Master's degree with 3 years of experience.
• Familiarity with Root Cause and Corrective Action
• Must have excellent communication skills and ability to work within a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance, which generally requires US Citizenship as a prerequisite
• BS in Engineering from an ABET accredited university
• Experience with cables
• Experience with Capital Software
• Familiar with digital formboard for cable assembly
• Familiarity with Teamcenter or Solumina
• Adept at managing competing priorities
• Attention to detail