Quality Engineering Manager 1
Posted on: 13 Feb 2021
Huntsville, AL
Job Description
Description
Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. With us, you rsquo;ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today.
Northrop Grumman Defense Systems sector is seeking Quality Engineering Manager 1 to join our growing team of diverse professionals supporting the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program in Huntsville, Alabama.
Responsibilities:
* Assures compliance in program quality, risk management, process improvement, subcontractor and supplier quality in accordance with contractual requirements.
* Monitors quality metrics, corrective action boards, and program audit metrics and processes
* Leverages comprehensive metrics, customer and employee feedback to assess program quality performance and risks
* Presents metrics to executive leadership and the customer on regular basis
* Frequent interface with executives and customer representatives, including on-site DCMA representatives, concerning projects, operational decisions, scheduling requirements, and contractual clarifications
* Promotes the professional development of the quality engineering workforce and fosters a collaborative culture that sustains the momentum around employee engagement and inclusion, affordability, innovation, value growth, and continuous improvement
Qualification
Basic Qualifications:
* Bachelor rsquo;s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with a minimum of 5 years of quality/mission assurance and/or program management experience
* Must have an active U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secret security clearance
* Must be able to work on-site in Huntsville, Alabama
* Must be able to travel as needed (up to 10% of the time)
Preferred Qualifications:
* Advanced STEM degree
* Demonstrated hardware and software engineering experience
* Foreign Military Sales (FMS) experience
Northrop Grumman
Falls Church, VA
Northrop Grumman Corporation, a security company, provides products in the areas of autonomous systems, cyber, space, strikes, and logistics and modernizations in the United States, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Aerospace Systems, Innovation Systems, Mission Systems, and Technology Services. The Aerospace Systems segment designs, develops, integrates, and produces manned aircrafts, autonomous systems, spacecraft systems, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics, and other systems and sub-systems for use in the areas of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, strike operations, communications, earth observations, and space science.
The Innovation Systems segment designs, develops, integrates, and produces flights, armaments, and space systems. It offers launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile products and defense electronics; precision weapons, armament systems, and ammunitions; satellites and associated space components and services; and advanced aerospace structures. The Mission Systems segment offers products and services that include C4ISR systems; radar, electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR), and acoustic sensors; electronic warfare systems; cyber solutions; space systems; intelligence processing systems; air and missile defense integration systems; navigation systems; and shipboard missiles and encapsulated payload launch systems.
The Technology Services segment provides logistic solutions that supports the full life cycle of platforms and systems. Its products and services include software and system sustainment; modernization of platform and associated subsystems; advanced training solutions; and integrated logistics support. Northrop Grumman Corporation was founded in 1939 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.
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IndustryAerospace and Defense
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No. of Employees85,000
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Jobs Posted6018
