Principal Mission Assurance Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal Mission Assurance Engineer 3 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be onsite in Melbourne, FL.

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 a program and mission assurance team during the Engineering Manufacture and Development (EMD) phase.

• 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 root cause and corrective action (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.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline
• Experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, Program Integration.
• Skilled in design review and…