Staff Mission Assurance Engineer

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Mission Assurance Engineer (Lvl 5) to join our team in Melbourne, FL. You will execute and oversee quality-first technical support and drive mission assurance across IPTs, aligning with MAPM and program requirements.

Responsibilities include design and manufacturing collaboration, RCA tracking, RCCA investigations, and ensuring documentation compliance with program specs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) with extensive engineering/quality experience in heavy lab and testing environments; 12+ years with a BS, 10+ years with a MS, 8+ years with a PhD.
• Significant experience/knowledge in Design Engineering, Manufacturing, and Nonconformances.

Responsibilities

• Engage with design engineering teams to ensure requirements are met.
• Provide operational support and oversight via Supplier Management Teams and related roles to assure compliance.
• Collaborate with inspection, software and supplier quality teams to drive quality into design for robust verification/validation.
• Lead RCCA investigations and drive corrective actions to prevent recurrences.
• Track and process non-conformances from initiation to disposition with internal and external customers.
• Deliver fact-based leadership updates via daily/weekly metrics and reviews.
• Study FMEA to anticipate product performance impacts and guide process development.
• Oversee product qualification and provide guidance as needed.
• Provide oversight of product integration and testing via manufacturing support and test procedures.
• Collaborate with manufacturing to ensure quality standards are implemented.

Skills

Design Engineering

Manufacturing

Quality Assurance

Root Cause Analysis

Technical Leadership

Project Coordination

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM

Master's Degree

PhD

Tools

Design Tools

Atlassian Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description

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 - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. 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. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Mission Assurance Engineer (Lvl 5) to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals.

This position will be onsite in Melbourne, FL supporting a new program. You will directly support the Mission Assurance Program Manager (MAPM) by executing and overseeing quality first technical support, independent of Engineering, through early intervention. Support program and mission assurance teams during the Engineering Manufacture and Development (EMD) phase. This role will be operationally focused and drive collaborative efforts across various Integrated Product Teams (IPT), to include System Test, through team integration and involvement at the lowest to highest levels. Validate program objectives are being met through participation and oversight of task performance, historical data reviews, process reviews, inspection, auditing, testing and product evaluation. Deliver focused efforts in design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, manufacturing, flight operations, research and development as they apply to the mission assurance statement of work. Evaluate and support corrective measures to ensure process revision meets acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with program requirements.

These functions will be supported through personal and team review of Supplier Data Requirements Lists (SDRL), Acceptance Test Procedures (ATP), Qualification Test Procedures (QTP), Supplier Statement of Work (SSOW), Program Specifications (PSPEC), etc. for compliance to requirements. When necessary, attend gateway events such as Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM), Integrated Review Board (IRB), Test Readiness Review (TRR), Critical Design Review (CDR), etc. Facilitate audits to identify quality related deficiencies, evaluate non-conformances, and negative performance trends and failures; lead root cause and corrective actions necessary to prevent a future reoccurrence. This position will require high level organizational skills to support concurrent taskings along with strong computer skills with a high level of proficiency in Design Tools, Atlassian Tools and Microsoft Office Suite.

Responsibilities:

• Personal and team engagement with design engineering team(s) to ensure requirements.
• Operational support and execution oversight 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.
• Collaborate with inspection, software and supplier quality teams to drive quality into the design to ensure robust verification and validation processes.
• Track and Facilitate root cause and corrective action (RCCA) investigations to address non-conformances, ensuring effective resolution and continuous improvement.
• Track, oversee and process non-conformances from initiation through disposition, via collaboration with internal and external customers.
• Ensure delivery of fact based decision points to leadership through daily/weekly metrics and reviews.
• Study Failure Modes Effects and Analysis (FMEA) to plan and develop the required processes to identify potential product performance impacts as early as possible.
• Oversee product qualification and provide guidance when needed.
• Deliver product integration and testing oversight via manufacturing support, test procedure review, test witnessing, troubleshooting and buy off.
• Collaborate with manufacturing operations to ensure quality standards are in place.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with 12 Years experience in Engineering and/or quality background with heavy lab and testing environment support/oversight ; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Year with PhD
• Significant experience/knowledge in Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Nonconformin