Sentinel Manager Supplier Quality 2 - 10785-1

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Roy, UT +1 · Mission and Quality Assurance

Manager Supplier Quality 2 at Northrop Grumman, responsible for leading a team of Supplier Quality Engineers to ensure the quality of procured materials and services for the GBSD program. This role involves identifying and mitigating supplier quality risks, collaborating with various departments to address quality issues, and driving continuous improvement in supplier performance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Engage in Program activities to identify and quantify supplier quality risk in program sourcing plans, influence sourcing strategy to include capable suppliers and to identify risk mitigation strategies to minimize impact of poor supplier quality.
  2. Collaborate with GSC to ensure appropriate quality requirements for programs are identified and flowed down to suppliers via purchasing documents.
  3. Coordinate with IPT Engineer teams to ensure program risk mitigation strategies are executed in conjunction with key program schedule milestones.
  4. Collaborate with GSC, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Program Management organizations to identify and understand supplier quality issues identified during supplier onboarding, in receiving inspection and in QMS reviews and audits, and work with all stakeholders to drive suppliers to sustained Root Cause & Corrective Action.
  5. Collaborate with GSC teams to ensure critical suppliers are identified and the appropriate quarterly quality performance feedback (Supplier Assessments (SAMS) or SAP Scorecards) is accurate and effectively communicated to the supplier and use data-driven processes to measure supplier quality performance, mitigation of risk and to lead continuous improvement processes.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors of Science in STEM with 8 years of applicable experience or Masters in STEM with 6 years of applicable experience
  • Ability to obtain a US Government Secret Clearance
  • 3 years of experience in Supplier Quality and/or Mission Assurance

Nice to have

  • Experience managing people preferred
  • Demonstrated understanding of the program / product lifecycle in the areas of supply chain management, receiving operations, inventory control, production control, product test & evaluation, root cause analysis, product sell off, shipping and product support as they apply to quality.
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Familiarity with ISO 9001 / AS9100 Quality Management System certification process.
  • Master’s degree in a STEM or supply chain management field.
  • Defense Industry experience as a Program or Project Manager, Quality Manager, Supplier Quality Manager, Supply Chain Manager, Engineering Manager or Manufacturing Management
  • Prior experience on an Engineering Manufacture and Development (EMD) program
  • Lean / Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certification to drive continuous improvement.
  • Demonstrated ability to apply strong analytical skills.
  • Current, active clearance above Secret, or ability to acquire a Department of Defense Top Secret clearance.

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret Clearance
  • Supplier Quality
  • quality requirements
  • supplier quality issues
  • Root Cause & Corrective Action
  • quality performance feedback
  • supplier quality performance