Manager Quality Engineering Level 2

Job Details

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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's Space System Sector is seeking an Integration and Test Quality Manager (Level
2) to join our team in Chandler, AZ. This position is fully on-site and cannot accommodate telecommute work. Relocation assistance is not available. This role will manage our Chandler Integration and Test Quality Team and will interface and support all Field Site Integration and Test teams in VSFB, Promontory, Huntsville, and Wallops. The team includes a total of 25 plus direct reports.

The manager will provide Launch Manifest oversight and ensure that Quality is supported at all field campaigns. Travel is required and can be as much as 20%. This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

• Ensure that we meet all customer quality requirements, including reviews of Mission Assurance Contract Summaries and Program Plans.
• Measure and monitor all Quality metrics and report progress on a monthly basis. These metrics include Launch Readiness Review items, Product Escapes, First Articles statuses, drawing reviews/approvals, non-conformance reporting, corrective action reporting, continuous improvement activities, and performance review management.
• Represent the Launch Systems division in supporting digital transformation and continuous improvement quality initiatives.
• Interface with the Production Quality and Procurement Supplier Quality teams to ensure that company values and overall metrics are met.

• Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished products.
• Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Manage the administration of the Production Quality Integration and Test team’s usage of our systems tools such as Solumina I-series MES, TipQA, Discus FAI software, Costpoint, and Shop Floor time.
• Have familiarity with Advanced Quality Planning execution; e.g., PFMEA, Control Plan, and SPC Analysis.
• Devise and implement methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Design and analyze inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment; conduct quality assurance tests; and perform statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Audit quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
• Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• 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.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of related experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of related experience.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance.
• Ability to travel up to…