Mission Assurance Manager - Inspection

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be 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 (NGAS) is seeking a Mission Assurance Manager 3 for the Palmdale, CA site.

The Mission Assurance Manager 3 will be responsible for providing daily supervision and direction to the Functional Homeroom Inspection team in Palmdale. This position will support all Palmdale program quality inspectors and staff in addition to being responsible for providing objective‑oriented direction to team members utilizing management guidelines and general policies that fully engage our Quality Management System. The following are key responsibilities:

• Responsible for the project performance planning, risk management, technical quality, cost, schedule and factory accountability.
• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Designs and analyzes inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Audits quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is aligned with requirements.
• Act with agility to business needs and interact in collaborative way to empower diverse, cross functional teams, including both internal and external members to achieve positive business results, including operating decisions, scheduling requirements and contractual clarification.
• May 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.

• Bachelors degree and at least 9 years of related experience in Aircraft, Aerospace, or Manufacturing industries in a Quality environment or a Masters degree and 7 years of related experience in Aircraft, Aerospace, or Manufacturing industries in a Quality environment.
• Must have at least 7 years of prior management/leadership experience.
• Must have an active DoD Secret security clearance (US Citizenship required) with the ability to obtain PAR (Special Program Access).

• Current Program Access
• Quality/Mission Assurance and/or process knowledge and understanding
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Prior work experience in a fast‑paced, variable environment.
• Quality/Mission Assurance and/or Process experience
• Solid working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint (ability to create and edit deliverables)
• Aerospace manufacturing experience
• Strong orientation to change in a dynamic environment
• Sophisticated level of understanding risk/reward implications for program or area of…