Manager Quality Control - R10214730

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 and 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 is in need of a Manager Quality Control 2 based at its Elkton, Maryland facility. The Manager Quality Control 2 is responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team of technicians, inspectors, and chemists as well as performing technical duties. The role oversees the safety of laboratory facilities, maintaining current knowledge of relevant protocols, regulations, standards, and safety procedures while developing and maintaining standard operating procedures.

This position also manages inventory, including selecting, purchasing, storing, and allocating laboratory equipment, supplies, and data analysis tools. The candidate requires excellent interpersonal and organizational skills combined with a “can do” attitude.

Northrop Grumman Propulsion Systems and Controls (PS&C) facility in Elkton, Maryland began solid-propellant rocket operations in 1948. Today, the Elkton PS&C facility designs, develops, and produces solid-propellant propulsion and ordnance systems for a wide variety of government and commercial customers, while serving as the hub for offsite engineering and test facilities in Ronkonkoma, NY and Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Elkton, Maryland is located on the Upper Chesapeake Bay, midway between Philadelphia and Baltimore. The area offers charming small towns, parks with miles of trails, specialty and antique shops, award‑winning restaurants, and inns. Residents can hike, bike, camp, bird‑watch, ride horseback, or drop a fishing line. Five Rivers, Chesapeake Bay, and the C&D Canal can be explored by boat or land, providing panoramic views from Turkey Point Lighthouse and across the C&D Canal.

• Promotes the professional development of direct reports and fosters a collaborative culture that sustains momentum around employee engagement and inclusion, affordability, innovation, value growth, and continuous improvement.
• Maintains the highest level of commitment to quality, compliance, and internal controls in adherence to company values and ethics.
• Executes laboratory activities such as sampling, analysis, and various reports.
• Provides clear assignments, helps employees connect their efforts to the bigger picture, creates an inclusive work environment characterized by mutual respect and the valuing of differences, and builds a culture that motivates employees to their highest levels of performance.
• Assures compliance in quality and safety in accordance with requirements.
• Maintains budgets, schedules, and performance standards.
• Regularly analyzes performance for continual improvement opportunities.
• Monitors and ensures performance goals are achieved by identifying, communicating, and mitigating risks.
• Establishes and manages key metrics to ensure process performance.
• Ensures policies, procedures, and processes are in place to assure the performance and quality of products with conformance to established standards, specifications, and customer requirements.
• Supports Return to Green, Failure Analysis, and Corrective Action activities with a focus on full resolution and future risk mitigation.
• Drives culture change toward more proactive risk mitigation, data‑driven decision making, and a continuous improvement mindset.

• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, or similar STEM discipline and 8 years related experience, or Master’s degree in chemistry, chemical…