Manager of Industrial Engineering 2
Northrop Grumman
- Palmdale, CA
- $125,500-188,300 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- This manager will lead industrial engineers and possibly project managers.
- Provide technical and leadership support to the Industrial Engineering team on a production line/development program.
- Drive strategic initiatives and tactical actions that deliver results to improve program cost and schedule performance. Ensure program milestones and performance goals are achieved.
- Deliver on short-term, high visibility program requests, while creating a vision and executing a long-term strategy to influence change within and outside the organization.
- Coach, mentor, and develop team of industrial engineers by assigning meaningful tasks, providing frequent feedback, and rewarding positive performance. Build trust within the organization and align team towards a clear set of impactful goals.
- Administer to Industrial Engineering employees; including performance reviews, merit increases, promotions, skills inventory and personal resources.
- Working side by side with Operations and IPT leadership by developing tools to help them achieve all business targets, to include schedules, SOPs, bar charts, and performance dashboards.
- Sourcing key IEOM talent to ensure success of the Business Unit goals.
- Working in concert with other functional homerooms and shared service organizations to coordinate, direct, and support the continuous improvement of people, products, processes, systems and services.
- Oversight of projects and tasks assigned to the cross-functional organizations and providing direction to ensure quality, schedule and cost are achieved.
- Providing direct supervision and management of employees from technical, manufacturing, and administrative areas to ensure business targets are met.
- Creating long range planning & strategies for the operations team (e.g.: staffing forecasting, recovery plan schedules, line balancing assessments, EAC/Budget forecasting), as needed.
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 5 years of professional experience in industrial engineering, operations/management, engineering and/or relevant experience in an aerospace, aviation, automotive, military, manufacturing, and/or related environment OR Master’s Degree AND 3 years of experience in industrial engineering, operations/management, engineering and/or relevant experience.
- Must have 5 years total of engineering experience.
- 2 years of leadership/management experience.
- Ability to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance as well as the ability to obtain Special Program Access.
- Earned Value Management (EVM) and/or Estimate at Complete (EAC) experience.
- Experience with Shop Floor Control (SFC) systems for various lifecycles of manufacturing products.
- Understanding of advanced business systems applications in IE, including but not limited to MES, SAP, Tableau.
- Experience in an aerospace manufacturing environment; at least 1 year experience in Shop Floor Operations.
- Demonstrated work experience leading and building diverse teams in fast-paced, quality-centric environments.
- 3 years of leadership experience.
- Experience leading operations’ improvement initiatives resulting in cost savings/cost avoidance.
- Experience with multiple program environments utilizing common infrastructure and facilities.
- Experience with Project Management and the execution of projects across multiple functions and organizations.