Northrop Grumman Australia · 1 month ago
Mission Assurance Engineer – Level 3 or Level 4
United States-Maryland-Linthicum
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$136K/yr - $204K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense company, actively seeking a Mission Assurance Engineer for their Space Sector in Linthicum, MD. The role focuses on establishing quality assurance programs and ensuring compliance with mission assurance processes to support satellite design and operations.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Establish and maintain Quality Assurance programs, procedures and controls ensuring that products and services conform to company standards of excellence
Support the development, implementation and maintenance of quality policy and procedures within the Quality Management System (QMS) including performing internal audits to assess conformance
Interface with suppliers in the verification of product design, quality and reliability
Review practices, procedures and processes seeking ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness and reduce risk to product quality
Interpret customer technical and MA requirements, and ensure these requirements are integrated into program plans, specifications and product drawings
Ensure program contract requirements are flowed down internally to the production floor and externally to suppliers
Ensure compliance with contract program, quality, organizational, and industry alert requirements
Provide oversight into discrepancy review and failure investigations, as well as cause and corrective action determinations
Analyze and interpret trends and execute improvements using data from key metrics
Perform Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) analysis, and problem-solving activities on program-specific, quality system and business system deficiencies
Represent Mission Assurance at various program reviews and review boards including but not limited to Configuration Control Board (CCB), Material Review Board (MRB), Program Management Reviews (PMR), design/peer reviews, Manufacturing/Test Readiness Reviews (MRR/TRR) and Corrective Action Board (CAB)
Ensure risk management activities (including design/process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis dFMEA/pFMEA) are executed according to standards and procedures
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree with 5 years of professional experience – OR – Master's degree with 3 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 1 year of professional experience. Will consider an additional 9+ years of experience in lieu of degree
Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application
Experience in Mission Assurance in either HW/SW/Systems
Experience in evaluation, trace, and analysis of requirements
Experience in working with various elements/segments of space program performance
Bachelor's degree with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master's degree with 6 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of professional experience. Will consider an additional 12+ years of experience in lieu of degree
Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application
Experience in Mission Assurance in either HW/SW/Systems
Experience in evaluation, trace, and analysis of requirements
Experience in working with various elements/segments of space program performance
Preferred
10+ years systems engineering experience with at least 5 years working space systems engineering
Experience with requirements development, flow-down, analysis, verification and validation
Quality Assurance experience with payload, spacecraft bus, antenna, integration and test, launch, ground systems, operations and maintenance activities
Experience with development, integration, and testing of integrated space systems
Leadership skills to develop proposals for Government and Commercial customers
Ability to work independently, determine and develop approach to solutions
Evidence of problem solving and time management skills
Experience working with multi-disciplined teams
Excellent presentation skills and negotiation skills
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase