Principal Quality Analyst / Sr Principal Quality Analyst

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Iuka, MS +1 · Mission and Quality Assurance

This role is for a Principal or Senior Principal Quality Analyst at Northrop Grumman, focusing on developing and implementing program quality plans, ensuring products conform to standards, monitoring manufacturing performance, and investigating/correcting discrepancies. The role requires experience with quality management systems (QMS) like AS9100/AS9102, statistical quality control, lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and root cause analysis. A Secret or higher clearance is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and implement program quality plans, programs, and procedures using statistical quality control statistics, lean manufacturing concepts, and six-sigma tools and analyses.
  2. Ensures that performance and quality products conform to established company and regulatory standards. Monitors and presents manufacturing performance metrics to Cost Center Operational and Program Management leaders and recommends, based on metric trends, training focus areas that will support scheduled deliverables.
  3. Partner with Manufacturing and Quality Engineers, and Inspection Teams to document and ensure the right corrective or course of action is best for the customer and part being manufactured.
  4. Create and edit First Articles of Inspection and ensure compliance to AS9102.
  5. Reviews, analyzes, and reports on quality discrepancies related to assembly, process, mechanical, hydraulic and fuel system lines, and electrical & electro-mechanical systems.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors Degree with 5 years of experience in Quality; or Masters Degree with 3 years of experience in Quality; or PhD with 1 year of experience in Quality.
  • Strong Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Edge and other office systems experience.
  • Develop, collect, and track metrics for process health and performance monitoring.
  • Experience developing, modifying, applying, and maintaining quality evaluation & control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished products.
  • Experience editing, reviewing and implementing methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
  • Experience performing quality system audits for deficiency identification and correction.
  • QMS experience (AS9100, AS9102, ISO 9001, or ISO 9000).
  • Experience in developing or reviewing Root Cause / Corrective Action activities.
  • Experience with writing Material Review Board Discrepancies and Dispositions.
  • Experience in processing data collection, analysis, and metric reporting.
  • Experience with quality controls and/or non-conformance controls.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret or higher clearance.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret or higher clearance
  • Special Access Program (SAP) clearance