Plan and support the setup and integration of a manufacturing execution system (MES) for a new superconducting electronics wafer fabrication line. Maintain awareness of MES setup and integration schedule risk and proactively escalate risk to team leads as required. Create detailed end-user requirements and acceptance test plans, while leveraging experience and business processes from semiconductor manufacturing organizations. Partner with an industry-leading vendor in setting up an MES to support a new wafer fab manufacturing line. Collaborate with the vendor on deploying manufacturing master data modeling architectures and Best-Known Methods (BKMs). Apply systems engineering best practices, principles, and concepts to architectures within a manufacturing context. Work collaboratively with other experienced team members. A degree in a STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with a minimum of 5 years of experience with a bachelor's degree, 3 years of experience with a master's degree, or 0 years of experience with a PhD Experience working with or drafting Statement of Work (SOW) components with vendors. Demonstrated experience communicating up, down, and across teams in a large organization. Demonstrated experience leading engineers towards a technical product deliverable. Experience interacting with vendors to deliver SW systems for semiconductor fabrication. Demonstrated experience with modern automated factory systems in a semiconductor or microelectronics fab. Understands data relationships between products, plans, recipes, and varying levels of manufacturing containers (lots, wafers, die, etc.). Experience with core data groups in MES systems (equipment, products, consumables, etc.). Must be willing to work on site 100% of time Limited travel to local Northrop Grumman facilities may be required This position requires the applicant to be a U.S. citizen Must be able to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance per business requirements Principal Factory Manufacturing Execution Systems Engineer Lead:

A degree in a STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with a minimum of 8 years of experience with a bachelor's degree, 6 years of experience with a master's degree, or 4 years of experience with a PhD Experience working with or drafting Statement of Work (SOW) components with vendors. Extensive experience planning, executing, and integrating schedules. Demonstrated experience communicating up, down, and across teams in a large organization. Demonstrated experience leading engineers towards a technical product deliverable. Experience interacting with vendors to deliver SW systems for semiconductor fabrication. Demonstrated experience with modern automated factory systems in a semiconductor or microelectronics fab. Understands data relationships between products, plans, recipes, and varying levels of manufacturing containers (lots, wafers, die, etc.). Experience with core data groups in MES systems (equipment, products, consumables, etc.). Must be willing to work on site 100% of time Limited travel to local Northrop Grumman facilities may be required This position requires the applicant to be a U.S. citizen Must be able to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance per business requirements. Principal Manufacturing Execution Systems Engineer Lead:

Active US government security clearance per business requirements Experience with starting up a modern automated Manufacturing Execution System for a new manufacturing line. Experience with semi-automated track in / track out of product within an MES. Experience working in semiconductor manufacturing as process integrator, system, software, IT, manufacturing, or process engineer. Experience developing test plans for verifying and validating system components and subcomponents. Strong understanding of core MES subcomponents, such as equipment, process plan, test wafer setup, user security, constraints, contamination, lot management, etc. Experience with experiment management within R&D manufacturing concepts. Deep understanding of how MES integrates with broader systems in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) architecture including but not limited to Fault Detection, Equipment Integration, Recipe Management, Statistical Process Control, Advanced Process Control, Inventory, etc. Has worked with Applied Materials SmartFactory CIM solution.