Quality Engineer, Mission Systems (Secret)

Northrop Grumman Corp. (JP); Rolling Meadows, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Savings Plan

Paid Holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in Rolling Meadows, IL seeks an Engineer Quality to join our team. You will develop and maintain quality systems, partner with engineering and production, and apply standards like ISO 9000, AS9102, MIL, IPC to ensure product quality.

You will review drawings, lead root-cause actions, and drive continuous improvements across the facility, with opportunities in design, production control, reliability, or R&D as they apply to quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related STEM field with minimum of 2 years of experience in Quality, root cause investigation, and/or technical functions in Manufacturing; Master’s Degree in a related STEM field with of 0 years of experience.
• Root Cause Corrective Actions experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.
• U.S. citizenship required

Responsibilities

• Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation, control systems, and protocols for processing materials into semi-finished or finished products.
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing to establish and uphold quality standards.
• Design, analyze, and implement inspection and testing processes and equipment; conduct quality assurance tests, perform statistical analyses to determine cost and responsibility for non-conforming parts.
• Audit quality systems, identify deficiencies, and drive corrective actions that meet reliability standards and documentation requirements.
• Review contracts/SOWs/drawings to evaluate, interpret, and apply company policies, ISO 9000, AS9102, MIL, IPC, and other standards applicable to designs and processes.
• Identify and remove barriers to quality improvement through root-cause analysis and corrective-action planning.
• Interface with production-floor roles and communicate clearly with all stakeholders.
• Define, classify, and control quality characteristics for products, processes, and services; develop and validate control plans and work-instruction updates.
• Manage nonconformances across the facility, lead cross-functional containments, to ensure product compliance.
• Use and interpret quality-control tools and apply benchmarking to drive system-wide improvements.
• Interpret technical drawings and specifications to verify compliance with design requirements.
• Facilitate team collaboration using brainstorming, conflict-resolution, and other facilitation techniques.
• May specialize in design, engineering, incoming material, production control, product evaluation, reliability, inventory control, or R&D as they apply to product or process quality.

Skills

Root Cause Analysis

Statistical Analysis

Quality Assurance

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in STEM

Master’s Degree in STEM

Job description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in Rolling Meadows, IL seeks an Engineer Quality to join our team. You will develop and maintain quality systems, partner with engineering and production, and apply standards like ISO 9000, AS9102, MIL, IPC to ensure product quality.

You will review drawings, lead root-cause actions, and drive continuous improvements across the facility, with opportunities in design, production control, reliability, or R&D as they apply to quality.