About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: NoCLEARANCE TYPE: SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time Description
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 Mission Systems is seeking an experienced and strategic Director of Manufacturing Operations to lead critical manufacturing operations at our Linthicum, Maryland facility. This leader will be a site lead and responsible for overall manufacturing operations performance with site leadership across assembly, RF test, and the advanced packaging cell. This role provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure on-time, on-cost delivery in support of business objectives for multiple internal MS divisions, multi-sector, and external customers.
This role primarily supports the Foundries, Test and Advanced Packaging (FTAP); a key element of the Mission Next division within the Mission Systems sector. This role will have oversite supporting the work out of the Apopka, FL site as part of the matrix organization aligned to FTAP so partnership with Manufacturing leader at this site with be an essential part of the role. This person will report to the VP of Mission Next. The ability to communicate and lead teams across multiple internal organizations, functional teams and matrix environments is an execution requirement of this role.
Key Responsibilities
Provide overall leadership for manufacturing operations across assemb…