Principal/Sr. Principal Industrial Systems Engineer / Manufacturing Planner (PR939)

Requisition ID: R10170427

• Category: Engineering

• Location: Linthicum, Maryland, United States of America | Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United States of America

• Clearance Type: Polygraph

• Telecommute: No - Teleworking not available for this position

• Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)

• Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time

• Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available

• Positions Available: 1

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. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity and cognitive diversity.

Today’s dynamic global security threats require solutions both big and small – solutions living within the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC). For more than 70 years, we have been offering a wide range of trusted foundry and semiconductor services that deliver high performing and reliable microelectronics.

We are seeking a Principal / Sr. Principal Industrial Systems Engineer / Manufacturing Planner to join our team and develop high-performance computing systems. You’ll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside physicists, design engineers, and superconducting foundry engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Create factory floor models, develop capacity planning models, validate master scheduling and prediction accuracy.

• Setup and integrate factory planning tools for a manufacturing organization.

• Utilize capacity models to create wafer start plans for fab loading.

• Identify shortcomings in capacity models for the factory floor.

• Design, collect data, analyze, and compile reports on a variety of WIP in a high mix environment.

• Leverage capacity models to create a roadmap for future capital equipment requirements.

• Evaluate impacts of process changes to capacity models.

• Build and implement tools to evaluate manufacturing efficiency and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Optimize capacity of fab equipment by performing fab wide and tool specific optimization studies.

This position requires full time work onsite at our Linthicum, MD OR Annapolis Junction, MD location.

Basic Qualifications for Principal Industrial Systems Engineer / Manufacturing Planner:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 5 years of experience, a Master's degree in a STEM discipline with 3 years of experience, or a PhD in a STEM discipline with 0 years of experience.

• Experience in a semiconductor or microelectronics fab in operations or a factory planning organization.

• Strong skills in problem solving / troubleshooting.

• Experience in planning activities involving production control, inventory control, process control, or shop floor control / Material Resources Planning (MRP).

• Limited travel to local Northrop Grumman facilities may be required.

• This position requires the applicant to be a U.S. citizen.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with poly clearance per business requirements.

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal Industrial Systems Engineer / Manufacturing Planner:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 8 years of experience, a Master's degree in a STEM discipline with 6 years of experience, or a PhD in a STEM discipline with 3 years of experience.

• Experience in a semiconductor or microelectronics fab in operations or a factory planning organization.

• Strong skills in problem solving / troubleshooting.

• Experience in planning activities involving production control, inventory control, process control, or shop floor control / Material Resources Planning (MRP).

• Limited travel to local Northrop Grumman facilities may be required.

• This position requires the applicant to be a U.S. citizen.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with poly clearance per business requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with poly security clearance.

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree or higher in industrial engineering or operations research.

• Experience in semiconductor manufacturing lines and/or R&D microelectronics manufacturing.

• Experience with Applied Materials APD / Real Time Dispatch (RTD) products.

• Strong skills in data mining, data analysis, and critical thinking.

• Experience with simulation and advanced analytics tools for WIP scheduling.

• Experience with Applied Materials SmartFactory Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) solution.

• Experience in modern programming languages (Python, SQL, R, etc.).

Salary Range: $102,400 - $160,900

Salary Range 2: $127,000 - $199,600

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, paid time off (PTO), and more.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance.