**Requisition ID: R10174338**

+ **Category:** Manufacturing and Production

+ **Location:** Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Waynesboro, Virginia, United States of America

+ **Clearance Type:** SAP

+ **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. 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.

This Sr Manager will stand-up and supervise a team of employees who install, maintain, and repair industrial processing and manufacturing equipment in a newly constructed, advanced manufacturing facility located in Waynesboro, VA. This position will have oversite of multiple shifts. This position will coordinate with manufacturing, engineering and management personnel to ensure that manufacturing equipment is properly installed, maintained and in ready status. The successful candidate will create and execute preventive maintenance plans and will ensure that machinery and equipment metrics achieve a high level of performance, will communicate readiness, will drive execution of repair and will engage a highly skilled team to achieve high customer satisfaction. The primary responsibilities are to form and lead the team of technicians and to plan and oversee the installation and maintenance of product line machinery and equipment.

**This position will start out in Charlottesville, VA for approximately 1 year and then will be located in Waynesboro, VA once the new facility is available.**

**Responsibilities include the following:**

+ Create and support a Predictive and Preventive Maintenance Program for machinery and equipment, including developing a right-sized team of technicians, and identifying and stocking of critical replacement parts.

+ Assist in the installation of machinery and equipment as the new site is established, and when new machinery and equipment is required.

+ Lead and coordinate Root Cause and Corrective Action of machine and equipment failures.

+ Communicate daily status of machine and equipment downtime and repair activities.

+ Drive initiatives that lead to increased machine and equipment uptime performance.

**Basic Qualifications:**

+ Must have a Bachelor's degree **AND** 8 years of related experience in aviation, systems engineering, aerospace or manufacturing/production **OR** a master's **AND** 6 years of related experience in aviation, systems engineering, aerospace or manufacturing/production.

+ Must have 5 or more years of team lead/ and or supervisory of people

+ Experience working in a Manufacturing facility providing support to teams working multiple shifts

+ Must have extensive experience in a manufacturing environment working with industrial manufacturing machinery, production and test related equipment

+ Must have 5 or more years’ experience maintaining mechanical, electrical and pneumatic systems.

+ Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance (US Citizenship required) as well as the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certified, or significant Lean Manufacturing experience.

+ Active DoD Secret security clearance

+ Bachelor's degree (STEM or Management)

+ Leadership experience in Continuous Improvement processes such as World Class Manufacturing (WCM) or Similar

+ Prior experience installing and maintaining heavy industrial, automated and/ or manufacturing equipment

+ Troubleshooting experience with PLC Logic (Siemens, Allen-Bradley, GE)

+ Thorough knowledge of electrical schematics and technical drawings

+ Experience in aerospace/defense industry operating under AS9100 Quality certification

+ Familiarity with Digital Thread concepts

+ Familiarity with Theory of Constraints

+ Familiarity with state-of-the-art ERP/MES, and connected equipment software systems

+ Strong Machine Tool Knowledge.

+ Digital communications skills: able to synthesize multi-media content to communicate complex manufacturing organization & performance data to an array of audiences.

**Salary Range:** $117,300 - $175,900

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.

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 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 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. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.