Principal Engineer Mission Assurance
Posted on: 3 Apr 2021
Iuka, MS
Job Description
Description
Climb to new heights on your journey when you start Defining Possible with Northrop Grumman. Enjoy a purposeful career in aeronautics that is crucial to the way we connect and protect our world across land, sea, and air. Bring your experience and take advantage of this opportunity to discover how you can start to push past possible and achieve your goals today. Enjoy a diverse, collaborative environment with professionals across the nation ready to help launch your career.
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems (NGAS) is seeking a Mission Assurance Engineer to join our Iuka, Mississippi location. We are a world-class manufacturer of large composite rocket structures, for commercial and military applications. You will support plant wide manufacturing improvements in a low volume, high technical environment, reporting directly to the Site Quality Manager. This role will be integral to plant wide quality and mission assurance of our products. Our work is mission critical and directly contributes to science and exploration, national security, and the betterment of people rsquo;s everyday lives.
Responsibilities include the following:
* Authoring documentation to instruct operations on successful execution of quality requirements.
* Manage and coordinate non-conformance containment and corrective action implementation activities.
* Manage data collection, analysis, and customer interface
* Writing and managing risk mitigation actions and assuring their implementation.
* Active contributor to design change control reviews and implementation
* Support internal audits, process observations and area assessments.
* Establish and maintain collaboration partnership across functions and programs, customers, program management, and other support organizations.
The ideal candidate has the following characteristics:
* Ability to work with minimal direction in a fast-paced environment.
* High energy, results oriented, self-motivated / self-reliant, team player
* Strong interpersonal skills with ability to interface with an organization at all levels
* Ability to work in cross-functional teams.
* Ability to solve problems effectively
Qualification
Basic Qualifications:
* BS in Engineering or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) discipline and 5+ years of relevant work experience, or a Masters degree in a STEM discipline and 3+ years of relevant work experience
* Active DoD Secret Clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
* Prior Aerospace manufacturing experience
* Prior Quality manufacturing experience
* Ability to read and interpret GD amp;T drawings
* Working knowledge of Root Cause and Corrective Action methods
* Working knowledge of Inspection Plans and First Article Inspections
* Working knowledge of continuous improvement principles
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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