Staff Engineer Propulsion

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Staff Process Engineer – Level 5 to join our team in Clearfield, UT / Salt Lake City, UT.

This role partners closely with design engineering, production, and cross-functional teams to resolve manufacturing issues, optimize safety, quality, cost, and efficiency, and implement corrective actions to improve process performance. The successful candidate will analyze production data, support the implementation of tooling and equipment, maintain manufacturing documentation, and present technical solutions to leadership, customers, and engineering review boards.

This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Developing and improving manufacturing processes

Develop and maintain detailed work instructions for assigned products/processes

Coordinates with Design Engineering on design and manufacturability issues

Coordinates with production on day-to-day activities. Assists in the resolution of processing issues

Evaluate and aid in the disposition of discrepant hardware

Troubleshoots existing processes to improve safety, quality, cost, and efficiency

Analyze processing data to highlight trends and implement corrective actions

Maintains manufacturing bill of materials (MBOM)

Performing cause and corrective action activities to eliminate defects permanently

Working with the concurrent engineering team to create Build-to-Packages (i.e. engineering and planning documents)

Preparing and presenting technical presentations to VSET, leadership, and customers for review and approval

Performing table-top reviews

Using SPC tools to ensure process control

Troubleshooting production/tooling/facility issues and implementing improvements and solutions

Supporting design, checkout, qualification, and implementation of new or modified tooling or equipment

Other duties as assigned