Principal Manufacturing Project Engineer
Quick Summary
Act as the main point of contact for all manufacturing engineering related activities for your product Monitor product performance, quality, delivery,
Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related STEM area and a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience or a minimum of 3 years with a MS degree.
Northrop Grumman's Manufacturing Operations Engineering organization is seeking a Principal Manufacturing Project Engineer 3 for the Exciter and Mission Electronics Integration and Test (EMIT) cell. This position is located at our site near BWI Airport in Maryland.
The Principal Manufacturing Project Engineer will be responsible for a group of product lines moving through their respective areas.
Responsibilities
~1 min read- →Act as the main point of contact for all manufacturing engineering related activities for your product
- →Monitor product performance, quality, delivery, and cost metrics; highlight detractors and gather resources to resolve them
- →Collaborate closely with process/test engineering as well as multiple other functional groups supporting shop floor, program office, and customer (quality engineering, manufacturing supervision, production, operations, design engineering, program management)
- →Drive root cause corrective action efforts
- →Identify continuous improvement opportunities; create solutions and lobby for funding
- →Review and handle product on the shop floor
- →Lead communications outward from the shop floor, through yield meetings, situations reports, problem resolution charts, etc.
- →Gather and document efforts for non-recurring cost for initial product startup as well as support manufacturing readiness reviews
- →Coordinate between non-deliverable hardware requestor and manufacturing operations/engineering
Requirements
~1 min read- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related STEM area and a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience or a minimum of 3 years with a MS degree.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience managing or leading projects and/or people.
- Experience with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
- Fluency in MS Office software applications.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a US Secret Security Clearance.
- US Citizenship is required.
- Experience with PCB assembly and test.
- Experience with J-STD and MIL-STD requirements, including J-STD-001, IPC-610.
- Experience with Configuration Management and Manufacturing Process Planning.
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About this job
- Pay per year
- $108,800–$163,200 a year
- 21% above the $112,500 median for Project Engineer jobs on Jobera (340 salaries).
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Listing Details
- Posted
- October 23, 2026
- First seen
- October 23, 2026
- Last seen
- October 23, 2026
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