Principal Quality Engineer/Quality Engineer

Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU); Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 75,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job description

Requisition ID: R10172015

• Category: Engineering

• Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

• Clearance Type: Top Secret

• Telecommute: No - Teleworking not available for this position

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

• Travel Required: Yes, 25% of the Time

• 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. 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 — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible.

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills and innovative technologies to develop, design, produce, and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a talented Engineer to join our team in Baltimore, MD. The Program/Factory Quality Engineer develops, modifies, applies, and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product, focusing on defect minimization and process improvement.

• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place. Performs oversight and monitoring of program risks and opportunities.

• Assists in the performance of independent quality reviews to ensure compliance with contractual and customer requirements.

• Audits quality systems for deficiency identification and correction assuring process and product quality. Ensures 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Quality Engineer: Bachelor's + 2 years of experience; Master's + 0 years of experience; 6+ years of experience in lieu of degree.

• Principal Quality Engineer: Bachelor's + 5 years of experience; Master's + 3 years of experience; PhD + 0 years of experience; 9+ years of experience in lieu of degree.

• Active Top-Secret Clearance at the time of application. Ability to obtain a SCI.

• Solid written and verbal interpersonal communication skills and confidence to brief senior management with a solid foundation in Mission Assurance applications.

• Ability to coordinate customer communications across multiple, diverse sites.

• Ability to work in cross-functional teams to resolve problems or issues.

• Trained and experienced in performing Root Cause Corrective Action.

• Experience working with electrical or mechanical design requirements and specifications.

• Experience with SAP.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Top-Secret Clearance with SCI.

• Experience working on Space hardware.

• Manufacturing process knowledge a plus.

• Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering.

• Experience in planning and organizing activities across multiple manufacturing locations.

• Experience with AS9100/ISO9001 Quality Management.

• Record of increasing responsibility supporting manufacturing, electrical, and mechanical engineering organizations.

• Experience in evaluating circuit card assemblies for workmanship issues.

• Experience in quality planning.

• Mentor lesser experienced engineers in areas of manufacturing.

Salary Range: $75,700 - $113,500

Salary Range 2: $93,000 - $139,600

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.

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

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.