Principal/Senior Principal Quality Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

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.

An organization within Northrop Grumman’s Payload and Ground Systems (PGS) division, Mission Enabling Products (MEP) is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, and antenna reflectors. Our products are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years.

Learn more about Spacecraft Components at our website: https://www.northropgrumman.com/space/spacecraft-components/

Northrop Grumman's Mission Enabling Products, Deployables team in Oxnard, CA has an opening for a Quality Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Quality Engineering organization. The Quality Engineer role will support the requirements of the solar arrays and Deployables manufacturing.

This position can be filled as either a Principal (level 3) or Senior Principal (level 4).

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop, modify, apply and maintain quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.

• Collaborates with engineering 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.

• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.

• Processes complex non-conformances and complex Material Review dispositions from initiation through completion, via collaboration and coordination of dispositions with internal and external customers, presents same to internal and external customers to ensure timely dispositions in support of Production schedule.

• 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.

• Travel between Oxnard and Goleta NGC sites may be required, when required by management and/or customer demand.

Basic Qualifications for level 3 (Principal):

• Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline with 5+ years of relevant experience in quality assurance; OR 3+ years of relevant experience with a Masters' degree

• Experience working within Quality Management Systems, AS9100 preferred

• Initiating and processing discrepancies and Corrective Action

• Experience conducting Material Review Board

• Experience performing Root Cause analysis including documentation and presentation

• Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with all manufacturing departments and interfacing with customer representatives

• US citizenship requi