Senior Mission Assurance Engineer - Secret Clearance

Northrop Grumman; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 98,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

Paid time off (PTO)

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Melbourne, FL is seeking a Principal Mission Assurance Engineer 3 to join our onsite team. You will support the MAPM with quality-first technical oversight during the EMD phase and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design verification and supplier quality adherence.

You will drive RCCA investigations, prepare action reports, and deliver metrics to leadership, ensuring compliance with AS9100 and program requirements while supporting DoD

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM fields.
• Experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, Program Integration.
• Skilled in design review and NX modeling.
• Strong AS9100 nonconforming material processing.
• Lean Six Sigma and Root Cause Analysis proficiency.
• Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain Top Secret.

Responsibilities

• Participate in inspection, software and supplier quality teams to drive quality into the design to ensure robust verification and validation processes.
• Operational support and execution via Supplier Management Teams, Subcontract Administrators, Supplier Quality, Quality Field Engineers, Responsible Engineers (RE), Test Engineers, Safety Engineers, Materials and Process Engineers, and Reliability Engineers to confirm compliance to quality standards and contractual requirements
• Participate/Facilitate RCCA investigations to address non-conformances, ensuring effective resolution and continuous improvement.
• Execute non-conformance processing from initiate to disposition and collaborate with internal and external customers.
• Deliver fact based decision points to leadership through daily/weekly metrics and reviews.
• Ensure product qualification and provide guidance through AS9100 FAI process.
• Collaborate with manufacturing operations to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Prepare malfunction and corrective action reports while holding manufacturing accountable for root cause and corrective action deliverables.
• Review all necessary product and system documentation to ensure process compliance and requirement needs are met.
• Work closely with program partners to validate flow of requirements.
• Plan and develop the required processes to identify potential product performance impacts as early as possible.
• Deliver product development engagement through oversight of processes, procedures and standard adherence to ensure that product design continuously meets customer requirements.
• Oversee product qualification testing and provide guidance when needed.
• Provide program integration testing oversight via test procedure review, test witnessing, troubleshooting and buy off.
• Execute functions through compliance review of Supplier Data Requirements Lists, Acceptance Test Procedures, Qualification Test Procedures, Supplier Statement of Work, Program Specifications.
• Perform audits to identify deficiencies, nonconformances, and negative performance trends and failures.

Skills

Engineering experience

Design review

NX modeling

AS9100

Lean Six Sigma

Root cause analysis

Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

NX

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Melbourne, FL is seeking a Principal Mission Assurance Engineer 3 to join our onsite team. You will support the MAPM with quality-first technical oversight during the EMD phase and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design verification and supplier quality adherence.

You will drive RCCA investigations, prepare action reports, and deliver metrics to leadership, ensuring compliance with AS9100 and program requirements while supporting DoD