Northrop Grumman · 14 hours ago
Quality Engineer - R10218888
Northrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company that offers revolutionary systems impacting lives globally. They are seeking a Quality Engineer to support the APN-241 Program by ensuring products and services meet quality standards and regulatory compliance through various evaluations, audits, and collaborations with engineering and manufacturing teams.
AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity
Responsibilities
Able to conduct/support internal process evaluations and develop process evaluation reports
Ensures that performance and quality products conform to established company and regulatory standards through execution of scheduled and unscheduled audits
Develop, collect, and track metrics for process health and performance monitoring
Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished products
Collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, and other functions to ensure quality standards are in place and to resolve issues
Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment
Audits quality systems for deficiency identification and correction
Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards, and that documentation is compliant with requirements
Responsible for updating Quality and Mission Assurance (QMA) plans/procedures
Works with and provide support with our quality assurance inspection group
Promptly responds to technical issues that arise on the production floor utilizing work instructions, design documents, and specifications
Read and interpret blueprint and engineering drawings and be able to document non-conformances
Work with the Engineering team to ensure that part requirements are correctly described and documented in the production work plans
Provide oversight in discrepancy review and failure investigations as well as root cause and corrective action determinations. Analyze and interpret trends and execute improvements on key metrics
Represent Mission Assurance at various program reviews and review boards that may include but are not limited to Software Review Board (SRB), Configuration Control Board (CCB), Failure Review Board (FRB), Program Management Reviews (PMR), Safety Review Board (SRB), Software Peer Reviews, Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), and Corrective Action Board (CAB)
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in engineering or related STEM field with a minimum of 2 years of industry experience (quality, auditing, manufacturing, engineering) or 0 year of experience with a master's degree
Able to read documentation such as contractual standards, program plans, statement of work, requirements, software specs, test plans/procedures and software test reports. Individual should be able to interpret requirements for testability and clarity, software escapes, develop audit plans, and identify critical software non-conformances
Experience with Quality Management Systems (e.g., AS9100, ISO 9001, etc.)
Knowledge of Root Cause and Corrective Action methods
Ability to read and interpret drawings
Efficient at MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other office systems
Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
US Citizenship Required
Preferred
ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 trained auditor
Experience in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems and/or Teamcenter
Experience conducting internal audits (AS9100, In-Process, Factory Accountability)
Active DOD Secret Security Clearance
Aerospace and Defense Industry experience
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
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.7BKey Investors
U.S. Department of DefenseNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M
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