2025 Associate Quality Engineer

Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU); Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 64,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a motivated Associate Quality Engineer to join their innovative team in Baltimore. This role offers the chance to develop and maintain quality control systems, collaborate with engineering teams, and implement effective inspection and testing processes. You'll be at the forefront of ensuring product reliability and quality, contributing to groundbreaking systems that impact lives globally. If you have a passion for engineering and a commitment to quality, this opportunity is perfect for you to grow and make a significant impact in your field.

Qualifications

• 0 years of experience with a Bachelor's of Science required.
• Understanding of Manufacturing Engineering Process is essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain quality evaluation and control systems.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure quality standards.

Skills

Investigating Failures

Root Cause Analysis

Manufacturing Engineering Process

Quality Assurance Testing

Education

Bachelor's of Science

Tools

SAP

Job description

Requisition ID: R10182317

• Category: Engineering

• Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

• Clearance Type: None

• Telecommute: No - Teleworking not available for this position

• Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)

• Travel Required: No

• Positions Available: 1

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today and for generations to come. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, and bringing your whole self to work.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is currently seeking an Associate Quality Engineer to join our team as a Shipping Quality Engineer. This position will be located in Baltimore, MD.

What You'll Get To Do:

• Develop, modify, apply and maintain quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished products.

• Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.

• Devise and implement methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.

• Design and analyze inspection and testing processes, mechanisms, and equipment; conduct quality assurance tests; and perform statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.

• Audit quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.

• Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards, and that documentation is compliant with requirements.

• May specialize in areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control, and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.

• May be certified in lean and six-sigma quality engineering methodologies.

• Work with Engineering test sets and ensure proper Quality standards are in place to process hardware.

• Collaborate with the Engineering team for engineering development.

• Develop corrective action plans for software and hardware processing through the plant.

• Investigate failures internally to identify root causes on flight hardware.

• Work with technicians to develop root cause findings on flight hardware.

• Implement Kaizen strategies to reduce defect count on the manufacturing floor.

Basic Qualifications:

• 0 years of experience with a Bachelor's of Science.

• Understanding of Manufacturing Engineering Process.

• Experience investigating failures and identifying root causes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Mechanical or Electrical Engineering desired.

• Knowledge of Northrop Grumman's manufacturing process.

• Experience working with SAP.

• Knowledge of microelectronics.

• Certified in Lean and Six-Sigma methodologies.

• Understanding of AS9100.

Salary Range: $64,200 - $96,400

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.