Northrop Grumman Hiring for Lean Process Lead WCO (World Class Operations) at Sunnyvale, California Full Time

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.

Lean Process Lead WCO (World Class Operations)

Our group is responsible for implementing and managing innovative applications World Class Operations (WCO) applying Lean Practices and Processes. The Northrop Grumman Sunnyvale Production Support Group is looking for a Lean Process Lead WCO who has proven experience implementing and coordinating lean practices and processes leading to World Class Operations.

The Lead will be responsible for developing a WCO route map for our site. In this role, you will be partnering with multi-functional teams across NG to lead activities within managerial and technical pillars. The Lead will be the driver of the continuous improvement agenda and provide leadership to the departments and pillar leaders. We are looking for a highly motivated, meticulous, hands-on technical individual with excellent communication skills.

The ideal candidate brings technical functional depth and credibility, and possess the requisite executive leadership traits and business acumen to interface with the senior operations leadership and executive management team and develop, communicate, lead and motivate. The operating system requires a leader with a passion for implementing change management initiatives in operations, and rigorous pursuit of excellence in all manufacturing and business initiatives.

Specific areas of responsibility include:

• Leading a team to drive the design, development and deployment of key WCO.

• Communicating with Sector and site management teams on a regular basis.

• Ability to assess new technologies and determine solution for possible site implementation.

• Support operations leadership to ensure NG Operations Methodology is applied in a way that supports business performance and true alignment of business goals and objectives.

• Lead and support the deployment of the recently launched Operations System.

• Support, mentor and guide the technical application leaders in the implementation of the methodology and development of materials and best practices.

• Guide the organization towards a future that utilizes the Northrop Operations methodology.

• Develop organization knowledge of the Operating System and increase ownership and autonomy driving business results.

• Effectively communicate across multiple organizations to align a strategic and tactical path to success for manufacturing operations at the site.

• Partner with leadership to establish strategies for implementation, expansion, and sustainment.

• Facilitate development of key enablers to cultural readiness and acceptance of change through formal and informal change management methods.

• Promote methods that ensure all employees are respected, developed and engaged to their fullest potential.

• Identify and eliminate functional and organizational roadblocks to the operating system maturity.

• Support management in the implementation of the leadership blocks ensuring system sustainability.

This position can be filled at a level Sr. Principal Manufacturing Engineer.

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Basic Qualifications Principal Manufacturing Engineer:

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM discipline with 5+ years of experience; Master’s Degree with 3+ years’ experience.

• Strong Project Leadership, Continuous Improvement, and Communication Skills.

• Able to work/coordinate with multiple teams. Experience leading and mentoring teams.

• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills

• Ability to optimally multi-task and support multiple, concurrent projects.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance (US Citizenship).

• Experience with SAP or other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system desired.

• Advanced skills with MS Office applications including Excel, Word, Project, and Power Point.

• Candidate must have experience in data analysis, database management and data management.

• Candidate must have experience in Root Cause Corrective Action/Problem Solving.

• Experience in operations environments.

• Strong communication (written/oral), facilitation and training skills at all levels of the organization.

• Ability to work in different settings and environments.

Basic Qualifications Sr. Principal Manufacturing Engineer:

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM discipline with 9+ years of experience, Master’s Degree with 7+ years’ experience, including 5 years of lean or CI.

• Strong Project Leadership, Continuous Improvement, and Communication Skills.

• Able to work/coordinate with multiple teams. Experience leading and mentoring teams.

• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills

• Ability to optimally multi-task and support multiple, concurrent projects.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance (US Citizenship).

• Experience with SAP or other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system desired.

• Advanced skills with MS Office applications including Excel, Word, Project, and Power Point.

• Candidate must have experience in data analysis, database management and data management.

• Candidate must have experience in Root Cause Corrective Action/Problem Solving.

• Experience in operations environments

• Strong communication (written/oral), facilitation and training skills at all levels of the organization.

• Ability to work in different settings and environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a World Class Manufacturing Environment.

• Green/Black Belt Certification.

• Lean Sensei Certification.

• 5+ years of experience in designing and developing WCO in a multi-site organization.

• Experience with WCO as it relates to CI, OTD, SRR and increased employee engagement.

• Ability to plan site roadmap based on WCO Sector rollout; identify business requirements and map them to WCO capabilities.

• Drive progress in all WCO pillars and track/monitor KPI progress regularly.

• Lead efforts to increase WCO training opportunities within the plant.

• Exposure to machining, welding and assembly processes.

• Degree in Engineering or Business Management.

• Active Secret clearance.

• Lean Manufacturing Experience or Certification.

• STEM is preferred but not required.

• Experience in program planning and scheduling.

• Experience with Project Management and the execution of large scale, integrated projects across multiple functions and organizations.

Salary Range: $95,000 – $142,400

Salary Range 2: $117,700 – $176,500

Employees may be eligible for 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 health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority . The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/ .

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 most positions.

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