Aerospace Quality Lead (Onsite) – Six Sigma & RCA

Northrop Grumman; Sykesville (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Corp. is seeking a Principal/Sr. Principal Quality Analyst for the Mission Systems Sector in Sykesville, MD. The role focuses on program quality plans, corrective actions, and cross-functional coordination to ensure products meet aerospace standards.

The position requires strong experience in quality systems, root-cause analysis, and collaboration with manufacturing, engineering, and customers. Onsite work with occasional travel and opportunities for bonuses are noted.

Qualifications

• Experience with configuration control, nonconformance reporting, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive action in an aerospace environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret clearance.
• US Citizenship required

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement program quality plans, programs, and procedures using statistical quality control statistics, lean manufacturing concepts, and six-sigma tools and analyses.
• Ensures that performance and quality products conform to established company and regulatory standards.
• Reviews, analyzes and reports on quality discrepancies related to assembly, process, mechanical, electrical and electro-mechanical systems.
• Investigates problems and develops disposition and corrective actions for recurring discrepancies.
• Interfaces with manufacturing, engineering, customer, vendor and subcontractor representatives to ensure requirements are met.
• Designs and analyzes inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment; conducting quality assurance tests; and performing statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Works from engineering drawings, diagrams, customer specifications, inspection instructions, other documentation (manufacturing procedures) and checklists to ensure items meet required specifications and quality standards.
• Creation of data/sell-off packages for Source Inspection.
• Interfaces with customer for Source Inspection.
• Assists with nonconformance management, Material Review Boards, and Corrective Action Board generation.

Skills

Configuration control

Nonconformance reporting

Root cause analysis

Corrective/preventive action

US Citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree in quality/manufacturing/contracts

Master's degree

Associates degree + 7 years experience

Tools

MES

SAP

PROP

Microsoft Excel

Minitab

Job description

Northrop Grumman Corp. is seeking a Principal/Sr. Principal Quality Analyst for the Mission Systems Sector in Sykesville, MD. The role focuses on program quality plans, corrective actions, and cross-functional coordination to ensure products meet aerospace standards.

The position requires strong experience in quality systems, root-cause analysis, and collaboration with manufacturing, engineering, and customers. Onsite work with occasional travel and opportunities for bonuses are noted.