Principal Mission Assurance Engineer – Level 3

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

This role is for a Principal Mission Assurance Engineer at Northrop Grumman, focusing on ensuring product quality and manufacturing process compliance in an industrial environment. Responsibilities include understanding design intent, failure modes, requirements, and specifications, as well as manufacturing processes, process controls, statistics, and quality inspections. The engineer will provide guidance on governmental regulations and internal policies, serve as a liaison between Mission Assurance and other organizations, and work with operating entities to ensure inspections, process control, and audits meet specifications and improve processing. The role requires a STEM Bachelor's degree with relevant experience, the ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance, and experience in Quality Assurance, MRB, QMS, root cause analysis, inspection techniques, and systems engineering.

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.
  4. Other duties as assigned

Skills

Required

  • STEM Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience – OR – Approved STEM Master’s degree with 3 years of relevant experience – OR – Approved STEM PhD with 1 year of relevant experience. Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance
  • Experience in a Quality Assurance/ Quality Engineering role.
  • Experience with Material Review Board (MRB) and Quality Management Systems (QMS)
  • 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.

Nice to have

  • Degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Aerospace Engineering preferred
  • 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