Sr Principal Engineer Mission Assurance

Requisition : R

• Category: Engineering

• Location: San Diego, California, United States of America

• Clearance Type: Secret

• Telecommute: No
  - Teleworking not available for this position

• Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)

• Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time

• Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available

• Positions Available: 1

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. 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.

As a Mission Assurance professional for Quality and Mission Excellence, you are first and foremost committed to treating all people with respect. You model personal growth and are a champion for continuous development both personally and for your team. You choose to act with integrity and believe that high ethical and moral standards characterize who you are. You enable your team to achieve predictable and balanced results while satisfying the needs of both your internal and external customers.

You have a track record that proves you know how to support a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that attracts, retains, and encourages diverse and engaged talent. You build trusted and valued partner relationships and are effective at verbal and written communications. You strive for continuous improvement and respond vigorously to change. You work to ensure your team and the teams you support are armed with the information and tools needed for optimal performance.

If this describes you and you wish to join a fast-paced team that builds and executes strategies for sustainable value creation, we need you on our team!

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking a Mission Assurance Engineer 4 located in our San Diego Rancho Carmel facility!

This position is fully on-site (no remote or hybrid schedules).

What You'll Get to Do:

• Define and monitor mission assurance program specifications and processes to ensure mission success of responsible programs.

• Support the development, implementation and maintenance of quality policy and procedures within the Quality Management System (QMS) including performing internal audits to assess conformance.

• Review practices, procedures and processes seeking avenues to improve efficiency and effectiveness and reduce risk to product quality.

• Interpret customer technical and MA requirements, and ensure these requirements are integrated into program plans, specifications and product drawings.

• Ensure program contract requirements are flowed down internally and to suppliers.

• Ensure compliance with contract program, quality, organizational, and industry alert requirements.

• Provide oversight in discrepancy review and failure investigations, as well as cause and corrective action determinations. Analyze and interpret trends and execute improvements on key metrics.

• Perform Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) analysis, and Problem Solving activities on program-specific, quality system and business system deficiencies.

• Represent Mission Assurance at various program reviews and review boards including Configuration Control Board (CCB), Material Review Board (MRB), Program Management Reviews (PMR), Design/Peer Reviews, Manufacturing/Test Readiness Reviews and Corrective Action Board (CAB).

• Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.

• Responsible for developing Basis of Estimates to ensure sufficient Quality oversight on key Development and Sustainment captures and programs.

• Familiar with concepts like Cost of Quality, FMEA and similar measures designed to help drive improvement.

• Perform statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.

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