Job Description

Description

Climb to new heights on your journey when you start Defining Possible with Northrop Grumman. Enjoy a purposeful career in aeronautics that is crucial to the way we connect and protect our world across land, sea, and air. Bring your experience and take advantage of this opportunity to discover how you can start to push past possible and achieve your goals today. Enjoy a diverse, collaborative environment with professionals across the nation ready to help launch your career.

As a leader, you always act with integrity, and the highest ethical standards characterize everything you do. You enable your team to achieve predictable and balanced results, while satisfying the needs of internal and external partners. You treat all people with respect, and you model personal growth and continuous development. You know how to build an inclusive environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. You develop trusted and valued customer relationships and communicate effectively, so that people throughout the organization feel engaged and connected to their work. You deliver excellence, strive for continuous improvement and respond vigorously to change.

You ensure that your team has the information and tools needed to perform at their best. You demonstrate our committed pursuit of applying innovation to meet the requirements of our customer. You craft and execute strategies that result in sustainable value creation that delivers measurable results.

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Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Manager of Tool Die Making 1 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in El Segundo, CA. The selected candidate will manage a program or a function within the larger organizational unit, setting and operating to objectives and providing guidance to subordinates based on goals, objectives and company policy.

The Tool Die Making Manager will lead a group of non-exempt employees who have the responsibilities of building and fabricating composite tools for several programs. This position is also responsible for supporting the maintenance of other program tooling areas with direct support to ACC (Advance Composite Center).

Essential Functions:

- Provide leadership and direction to section team members, ensuring members have sufficient statement of work

- Manage employee performance (including engagement strategies for higher performers and corrective actions for lower performers)

- Coordinate with programs to ensure appropriate staffing/de-staffing actions are developed and executed

- Ensure that employees are familiar with and use required tooling processes and procedures

- Estimate cost, schedule, and technical performance for a specific unit or large contract work packages while keeping in step with program performance schedules

- Act with speed and urgency to implement area process enhancements to improve affordability, quality and schedule

- Monitor the performance of exempt and/or non-exempt employees on a daily basis and actively assist and/or provide direction to subordinates as required

- This position will support 1st Shift on a 9/80 work schedule, including weekend support as necessary

To learn more about our hiring process for manager positions, please view our ldquo;Selecting the Best Qualified Managers rdquo; video: www.northropgrumman.com/SQMVideo.

The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative/team settings across all levels.

Qualification

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor 39;s Degree with 1 year experience in a Tooling or Manufacturing/Production environment; OR High School diploma/GED with 4 years rsquo; experience Tooling or Manufacturing/Production environment will be accepted in lieu of degree

- 1 year of Leadership experience

- Experience with MS Office products including Word, Outlook and Excel

- Experience with Catia

- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Security Clearance issued by the DoD as required by the business.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor 39;s degree

- 2 or more years rsquo; experience as a Lead or supervisor in a tooling/ shop environment

- Aerospace and Defense experience