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 essential 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.

As a leader, you always act with integrity, and the highest ethical standards characterize everything you do. You enable your team to achieve predictable and balanced results, while satisfying the needs of internal and external partners. You treat all people with respect, and model personal growth and continuous development. You know how to build an inclusive environment that attracts, retains, and encourages a diverse and engaged team. You build trusted and valued customer relationships and communicate effectively, so that people throughout the organization feel engaged and connected to their work. You deliver perfection, strive for continuous improvement and respond vigorously to change. You ensure that your team has the information and tools needed to perform at their highest. You demonstrate our committed pursuit of applying innovation to meet the requirements of our customer. You build and execute strategies that result in sustainable value creation that delivers measurable results.

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Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems (NGAS) is looking for a Manager of Quality 2 for our Palmdale, CA facility.

Responsibilities include:

- Responsible for the project performance planning, risk management, technical quality, cost, schedule and factory accountability oversight for Special Programs Global Mission Excellence statements of work.

- 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 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.

To learn more about our hiring process for manager positions, please view our ldquo;Selecting the Best Qualified Managers rdquo; video: www.northropgrumman.com/SQMVideo.

Qualification

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor rsquo;s Degree and a minimum of 5 years of experience in the Aircraft, Aerospace or Manufacturing Industries

- Leadership experience

- Experience with Root Cause and Corrective Action

- Ability to aquire and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

- Active Secret Clearance

- Strong orientation to change in a dynamic environment

- Advanced level of understanding of sophisticated quality policies, procedures, governmental regulations and work flow.

- Ability to analyze alternative courses of action where decisions have risk/reward implications for program or area of Influence.