Principal Engineer Quality

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.

We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain 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. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a talented Principal Quality Analyst to support our Baltimore, MD site .

Primary Responsibilities:

• 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 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.
• Helps Facilitate process assessments to ensure optimal quality and efficiency.
• ·Complete understanding and wide application of technical principle, theories, and concepts in the field. General knowledge of other related disciplines.
• ·Provides technical solutions of a wide range of complex difficult problems. Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practicable, and consistent with organizational objectives.
• ·Contributes to the completion of specific programs and projects.
• · Ability to mentor/ lead while working in a fast-paced environment.

Basic Qualifications for level 3 (Principal):

• 5+ years of experience in Engineering/and or Quality with a bachelor's degree in STEM; 3+ years of experience in Engineering/and or Quality with Masters' degree in STEM.
• US citizenship required and ability to obtain and maintain Secret Clearance
• Experience working within Quality Management Systems
• Experience in ERP or MES systems. 

​Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with J –STD Soldering, Crimping, IPC Specs, Solar Cell Visual inspection, Manufacturing Planning review
• Experience initiating and processing discrepancies and Corrective Action.
• Experience in data mining.
• Experience performing Root Cause analysis including documentation and presentation is required.
• Experience in Facilitation of process assessments to ensure optimal quality and efficiency. 
• Experience and understanding of Continuous Improvement
• Experience with advanced engineering and manufacturing processes.
• Experience with training and successful application of lean principles.
• Experience w