Mission Assurance Engineer/princ Mission Assurance Engineer – Level 2 or Level 3

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Clearfield, UT +1 · Mission/Quality Assurance

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Mission Assurance Engineer/Principal Mission Assurance Engineer to support complex engineering problems in an industrial environment. The role involves understanding product design, failure modes, manufacturing processes, and ensuring compliance with regulations and policies. Responsibilities include working with design engineering, process engineering, and quality inspections, as well as performing audits and investigations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Understand the design intent, failure modes, requirements and specifications of the product as well as the manufacturing processes, process controls, statistics, SPC, and quality inspections.
  2. Provide expertise and guidance in interpreting governmental regulations, agency guidelines and internal policies/procedures to assure compliance/resolve non-conformances and will serve as liaison between Mission Assurance and various internal and external organizations, including some government agencies.
  3. Work directly with operating entities to ensure that inspections, process control, and audits are conducted on a continuing basis as specified to enforce requirements, meet specifications, and improve processing.

Skills

Required

  • Quality Assurance/ Quality Engineering role experience
  • Material Review Board (MRB) and Quality Management Systems (QMS) experience
  • Root Cause tools and investigation leadership experience
  • Inspection accuracy analysis, Inspection Points (IP) and Plan (I-Plan) creation experience
  • Application of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (ANSI/AMSE Y14.5), and Dimensional Inspection Techniques experience
  • Systems Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Design, and/or Solid Mechanics experience
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance
  • STEM Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of relevant experience (Level 2) OR STEM Master’s degree with 0 years of relevant experience (Level 2) OR STEM Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of relevant experience (Level 3) OR STEM Master’s degree with 3 years of relevant experience (Level 3) OR STEM PhD with 1 year of relevant experience (Level 3)

Nice to have

  • Mechanical, Chemical, or Aerospace Engineering degree
  • Mechanical Design, Manufacturing Engineering, SPC
  • AS9100/IS9001 experience
  • Tooling/special equipment experience
  • QMS signature authority
  • Demonstrated leadership
  • Demonstrated Customer Coordination
  • Understanding or experience of digital inspection techniques using Leica Laser Tracker, Creaform, Romer arm equipment, and CMM machinery
  • Understanding or experience of computer Aided Design and Software - i.e. NX, Verisurf, Polyworks, Cameo

What the JD emphasized

  • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance