Associate Quality Engineer - R10183666

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

Job summary

Join a pioneering firm as an Associate Quality Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in ensuring product quality and reliability. This position offers the opportunity to develop and maintain quality control systems, collaborate with engineering and manufacturing teams, and implement innovative solutions to enhance production processes. You will be part of a dynamic team that values intellectual curiosity and creativity, working on groundbreaking projects that impact lives. If you're ready to take on challenges and contribute to technological advancements, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Qualifications

• 0 years of experience required with a Bachelor of Science degree.
• Understanding of Manufacturing Engineering Process and failure investigation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain quality evaluation and control systems.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure quality standards.
• Investigate failures and implement corrective actions.

Skills

Manufacturing Engineering Process

Failure Investigation

Root Cause Analysis

Kaizen Strategies

Education

Bachelor of Science

Tools

SAP

Job description

• 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: Yes, 10% of the Time
• Positions Available: 2

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. 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.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is currently seeking an Associate Quality Engineer to join our team as an AMEC Quality Engineer.

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 materials product.
• 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; 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.
• 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 the 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 Engineering team for engineering development.
• Develop corrective action plans for software and hardware processing through plant.
• Investigate failures internally to identify root cause on flight hardware.
• Work with technicians to develop root cause findings on flight hardware.
• Have the ability to implement Kaizen strategies to reduce defect count on manufacturing floor.

Basic Qualifications:

• 0 Years of experience with a Bachelors 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

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

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.

Did you know?

Northrop Grumman leads the industry team for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most complex and powerful space telescope ever built. Launched in December 2021, the telescope incorporates innovative design, advanced technology, and groundbreaking engineering, and will fundamentally alter our understanding of the universe.