2026 Associate Mission Assurance Engineer

Northrop Grumman; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 66,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman seeks an Associate Mission Assurance Engineer to work on-site in Melbourne, FL. The role focuses on quality-first support, design reviews, and ensuring process compliance across manufacturing and development activities.

You will learn to execute mission assurance tasks, support product qualification testing, and assist audits, while collaborating with program partners to uphold customer requirements and maintain security clearances.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree completed by August 2026 in a related STEM field.
• Major in Aerospace, Aeronautical, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or related STEM area.
• Ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Government Secret clearance and SAP clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver malfunction and corrective action reports to identify root cause and actions.
• Review product documentation to ensure process compliance and requirement coverage.
• Collaborate with mission assurance and program partners to validate program requirement flow.
• Study and plan processes to identify potential product performance impacts early.
• Oversee processes and adherence to ensure product design meets customer requirements.
• Participate in product qualification testing and seek guidance when needed.
• Support program integration testing via procedure review, witnessing, troubleshooting, and buy-off.
• Learn compliance review of supplier data requirements, test procedures, and program specs.
• Assist audits to identify deficiencies, nonconformances and negative trends.
• Develop organizational and MS Office skills to manage concurrent tasks efficiently.

Skills

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Planning & documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Aeronautical/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or related STEM field

Tools

Siemens NX

Microsoft Office

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman is seeking Mission Assurance Engineers. This position will be located on-site at our Aeronautics Systems sector in Melbourne, FL. The qualified candidate will learn to execute and oversee quality-first technical support, independent of Engineering, through early intervention. Learn and deliver focused efforts in design review, nonconforming material processing, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, manufacturing, flight operations, research and development as they apply to the mission assurance statement of work.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Learn, develop and deliver malfunction and corrective action reports to hold manufacturing accountable for root cause and corrective action deliverables.


• Understand and review all necessary product and system documentation to ensure process compliance and requirement needs are met.


• Work closely with mission assurance team and program partners to recognize and validate flow of program requirements.


• Study, plan, and develop the required processes to identify potential product performance impacts as early as possible.


• Support product development engagement through oversight of processes, procedures and standard adherence to ensure that product design continuously meets customer requirements.


• Participate in product qualification testing and seek guidance when needed.


• Support program integration testing via test procedure review, test witnessing, troubleshooting and buy off.


• Execute Mission Assurance functions by learning compliance review of Supplier Data Requirements Lists, Acceptance Test Procedures, Qualification Test Procedures, Supplier Statement of Work, Program Specifications.


• Assist in audits to identify deficiencies, nonconformances, and negative performance trends and failures.


• Develop high level organizational skills to support concurrent taskings along with cultivating strong computer skills to achieve a high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Basic Qualifications

Basic Qualifications for an Associate Mission Assurance Engineer:

A candidate must meet ALL of the below criteria. The candidate must:

• Be completing or has completed their Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution by August 2026


• Be majoring in or having majored in Aerospace Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other related STEM degree program


• Be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite) as well as Special Access Program clearance within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.00/4.0 or higher


• Knowledge in Engineering, Manufacturing, Program integration


• Basic understanding of AS9100 standards


• Basic insight into Lean Six Sigma and Root Cause Analysis processes


• Drawing review and modeling tool experience (CAD), such as Siemens NX


• Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance

Salary Range

• Associate Mission Assurance Engineer: $65,800 - $98,800/year

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The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 EOO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.