Sr Principal Quality Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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.

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multidomain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader.  At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career. We are looking for you to join our team as a Sr Principal Quality Engineer based out of Baltimore, Maryland.

What You'll Get to Do:

• Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
• Collaborates with engineering, supply chain and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Designs and analyzes inspection and testing processes, mechanisms, and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Audits quality systems for deficiency identification and correction and keeps management apprised of supplier performance, quality status, and risks
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards, and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• May specialize in the areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
• May be certified in lean and six-sigma quality engineering methodologies.
• Drives quality outcomes for suppliers and operations.
• Identify and resolve complex technical and quality problems, issues, and defects on the production floor through problem-solving methodology, root cause investigation and corrective action implementations
• Review and evaluate non-conforming material for compliance to drawings, specifications, and standards
• Mentor and provide guidance to team members and less experienced personnel
• Provides technical solutions and insight which supports Quality Management System (QMS)
• Work with manufacturing cell team to define, gather, evaluate, and effectively present process and quality metrics to assist with program efficiency, effectiveness, and continuous improvement.
• Work with multiple functions to disposition hardware for quality related issues in the manufacturing cell
• Strong working knowledge of Factory processes and procedures across the entire factory.
• Ability to work in and lead cross-functional teams to resolve problems or issues.
• Working knowledge of inspection tools, methods and techniques used for hardware reviews, validation, and inspections.
• Ability to identify weakness and areas of non-compliance to provide guidance and plans for continuous improvement.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's of Science in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) related field with 8+ years of relevant experience; OR 6 years with Masters
• Working knowledge of SAP, ISE and CADSTAR.
• continuous improvement to existing methods, processes