Principal Quality Engineer
In Person
(Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America)
Full Time
$95,800 – $143,600
- Location:
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman solves the toughest problems in space, aeronautics, defense and cyberspace to meet the ever-evolving needs of our customers worldwide. Our 90,000 employees are Defining Possible every day using science, technology and engineering to create and deliver advanced systems, products and services. Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will allow you to work together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines.
What You'll Geto to Do:
- Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
- Collaborate 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 compliant with requirements.
- 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.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors of Science with a minimum of 5 years of experience in manufacturing/ operations; 3 Years with Masters;
- Experience in working independently and meeting required deadlines
- Proficient in SAP
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified in lean and six-sigma
- Electronics, PWB-prewired board
- Inventory management
- Supplier quality experience
- Source inspection experience
- Familiar with AS9100