RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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 Defense Systems is seeking Principal Industrial Engineer. This position will be located in Roy, UT.

The position partners across Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Quality, Global Supply Chain, Program Management, Business Management, and Pricing & Estimating to build credible, executable production proposals. It combines estimating rigor with modern analytics, using historical actuals, staffing, capacity, and shop-floor performance data to improve BOEs and production planning.

What You’ll Get To Do:

· Develop BOEs, labor and material estimates, staffing plans, capacity assessments, build-rate models, and schedule-aligned manufacturing assumptions for SDS proposals and program changes.

· Apply bottom-up, parametric, analogous, and actuals-based estimating methods, including improvement curves, trend analysis, CERs, confidence factors, and discrete task assessments.

· Translate statements of work, manufacturing concepts, WBS elements, and schedule requirements into time-phased proposal inputs and executable production plans.

· Use Excel and data tools to analyze historical actuals, touch labor, repair and rework, charging, and staffing data to support estimate quality, logic checks, and auditability.

· Support proposal reviews, fact-finding, management reviews, and negotiations with clear rationale, assumptions, and traceable source data.

· Help improve reusable estimating tools, standards, documentation, and estimating databases for future SDS work.

Position Benefits

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, 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 positions 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. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

Basic Qualifications

• Principal Engineer (T03): 5 Years with Bachelors in Science; 3 Years with Masters; 1 Years with PhD- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Technology, Operations Research, Data Analytics, Systems Engineering

• Experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing operations, production planning, or proposal estimating in aerospace, defense, or complex manufacturing.

• Experience developing bases of estimate, labor estimates, staffing plans, capacity models, or proposal inputs.

• Strong Excel modeling, presentation, and written communication skills.

• Working knowledge of manufacturing flow, production scheduling, capacity, and how shop floor execution interfaces with supply chain and quality.

• Department of Defense (DoD) Interim Top Secret security clearance.

• US Citizen with an active Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Top Secret Security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with basis of estimate writing, major proposal support, fact-finding, negotiations, or audit-compliant estimating.

• Experience with touch labor projections, improvement curves, cost estimating relationship development, risk assessment, fixed-variable analysis, or discrete statement of work task estimating.

• Experience using Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Structured Query Language (SQL), Python, SAP, Cobra, Workday, or manufacturing execution systems (MES).

• Ability to read blueprints or schematics and work across mechanical or electrical production environments

Primary Level Salary Range: $89,400.00 - $134,200.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 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.