Northrop Grumman Space Systems is currently seeking an Associate Quality Engineer to join our team as an AMEC Quality Engineer.

What You'll Get To Do:

• Develop, modify, apply and maintain 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.
• Devise and implement methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Design and analyze inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment; conducting quality assurance tests; and performing statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Audit quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
• Ensure 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.
• May be certified in lean and six-sigma quality engineering methodologies.
• Work with Engineering test sets and ensure proper Quality standards are in place to process hardware.
• Collaborate with Engineering team for engineering development.
• Develop corrective action plans for software and hardware processing through plant.
• Investigate failures internally to identify root cause on flight hardware.
• Work with technicians to develop root cause findings on flight hardware.
• Have the ability to implement Kaizan strategies to reduce defect count on manufacturing floor.

Basic Qualifications:

• 0 Years of experience with a Bachelors of Science
• Understanding of Manufacturing Engineering Process
• Experience investigating failures and identifying root causes
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Mechanical or Electrical Engineering desired
• Knowledge of Northrop Grumman's manufacturing process.
• Experience working with SAP
• Knowledge of microelectronics
• Certified in Lean and Six-Sigma methodologies
• Understanding of AS9100