Sr. Principal Mission Assurance Engineer – Level 4

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

This role is for a Sr. Principal Mission Assurance Engineer in the Space Sector, supporting complex engineering problems in an industrial environment. The engineer will provide expertise in interpreting regulations, ensuring compliance, and working with various internal and external organizations. Responsibilities include ensuring inspections and process controls meet specifications, leading root cause investigations, and applying quality assurance principles. A Secret security clearance is required.

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 Bacchus 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. Infrequent on-call duty - approximately one week per quarter - primarily remote support with on-site presence seldom required.
  5. Able to work in manufacturing environment, including accessing ladders, stairs, and work platforms.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional/relevant experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional/ relevant experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of professional/ relevant experience. Will consider an additional 4+ years of professional/ relevant experience in lieu of degree.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance
  • Experience in Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering
  • Experience with Material Review Board (MRB) and Quality Management Systems (QMS)
  • Root Cause tools and investigation leadership
  • Inspection accuracy analysis, Inspection Points (IP) and Plan (I-Plan) creation
  • Application of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (ANSI/AMSE Y14.5), and Dimensional Inspection Techniques
  • Systems Engineering and Statistics
  • Engineering Design, Solid Mechanics
  • Microsoft Office Suite

Nice to have

  • Mechanical Design, Manufacturing Engineering, SPC
  • AS9100/IS9001 experience
  • Tooling/special equipment experience
  • QMS signature authority
  • Demonstrated leadership experience
  • 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

  • Secret security clearance
  • Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering
  • Material Review Board (MRB) and Quality Management Systems (QMS)
  • Root Cause tools and investigation leadership