Mission Assurance Engineer - Quality & Risk Lead

Northrop Grumman; Elkton (MD); On-site; USD 73,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Mission Assurance Engineer to implement MA plans across programs, interfacing with customers and NG teams to ensure mission success. The role emphasizes quality, risk management, and process improvement in a collaborative environment.

The candidate will analyze data, lead internal audits, and support supplier verification, with opportunities to contribute to program reviews and critical actions within a diverse, fast-paced defense-focused organization.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a quality / mission assurance engineer, or a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline
• Application of technical expertise including complete understanding of fundamental engineering principles, practices, and theories
• Able to read engineering documentation (drawings, models, specs), interpret drawing dimensions, features, and parts lists, develop inspection plans, and identify critical features
• Intermediate to advanced computer skills including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Ability to understand and work with multiple enterprise-wide systems
• Excellent written and oral communication skills as well as strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance which requires US Citizenship as a prerequisite

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain Quality Assurance programs, procedures and controls ensuring that products and services conform to company standards of excellence.
• Support the development, implementation and maintenance of quality policy and procedures within the Quality Management System (QMS) including performing internal audits to assess conformance.
• Interface with suppliers in the verification of product design, quality and reliability.
• Review practices, procedures and processes seeking ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness and reduce risk to product quality.
• Interpret customer technical and MA requirements, and ensure these requirements are integrated into program plans, specifications and product drawings.
• Ensure program contract requirements are flowed down internally to the production floor and externally to suppliers.
• Ensure compliance with contract program, quality, organizational, and industry alert requirements.
• Provide oversight into discrepancy review and failure investigations, as well as cause and corrective action determinations.
• Analyze and interpret trends and execute improvements using data from key metrics.
• Perform Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) analysis, and problem-solving activities on program-specific, quality system and business system deficiencies.
• Represent Mission Assurance at various program reviews and review boards including but not limited to Configuration Control Board (CCB), Material Review Board (MRB), Program Management Reviews (PMR), design/peer reviews, Manufacturing/Test Readiness Reviews (MRR/TRR) and Corrective Action Board (CAB).
• Ensure risk management activities (including design/process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis dFMEA/pFMEA) are executed according to standards and procedures.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Mission Assurance

Reading engineering drawings

Documentation & drawing interpretation

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

DoD Secret Clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science/Engineering or Mathematics

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Mission Assurance Engineer to implement MA plans across programs, interfacing with customers and NG teams to ensure mission success. The role emphasizes quality, risk management, and process improvement in a collaborative environment.

The candidate will analyze data, lead internal audits, and support supplier verification, with opportunities to contribute to program reviews and critical actions within a diverse, fast-paced defense-focused organization.