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Manager General Manufacturing 1 - R10214527

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.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Manager General Manufacturing 1 to join our team within our Manufacturing and Production organization. This position will be located in Rancho Bernardo, CA.

A Manager General Manufacturing 1—Avionics shop Manager—will oversee the daily operations of the Avionics Lab team. Responsibilities include assigning work tasks, managing schedules, maintaining efficient day‑to‑day workflow, and facilitating weekly status meetings. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional leadership abilities and possess the capacity to develop effective solutions to address project‑related challenges that may arise. It is imperative that they ensure the fulfillment of safety, quality, schedule, cost, and customer satisfaction objectives.

Essential Functions

• This manager will lead a group of 15‑hour electronic technicians.
• Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees, and developing personal growth opportunities.
• Maintains workflow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
• Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
• Maintains quality standards by establishing and enforcing organization quality objectives.
• Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources, maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Resolves personnel problems by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending action.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state‑of‑the‑art practices; participating in professional societies.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Pay Range

$97,600.00/yr – $146,400.00/yr

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance type: Secret.

Travel: Yes, 10% of the time.

Benefits

We offer flexible work arrangements, a 4/10 Monday‑Thursday schedule with every Friday, Saturday and Sunday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, educational assistance, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical, management, or business‑related discipline and 2 years of related production experience in an aerospace, military, manufacturing and/or maintenance environment.
• 1+ years of project, program, or people leadership experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance and Special Program Access within a reasonable period of time as determined by the needs of the business.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience in presenting to executive staff and leadership.
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to solve problems and drive continuous improvements.
• Basic understanding of Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Experience supervising teams of 10+ employees.
• Understanding of 5S FOE/FOD.
• Familiarity with manufacturing processes and material flow.
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams).

Employment Details

• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Management and Manufacturing
• Industries: Defense and Space Manufacturing

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit U.S. citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.