Principal Quality Analyst / Sr Principal Quality Analyst

About the role

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Mission Assurance Team is seeking a Principal Quality Analyst or Senior Principal Quality Analyst located in Iuka, MS.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement program quality plans, programs, and procedures using statistical quality control statistics, lean manufacturing concepts, and six-sigma tools and analyses.
• Ensures that performance and quality products conform to established company and regulatory standards.
• Monitors and presents manufacturing performance metrics to Cost Center Operational and Program Management leaders and recommends, based on metric trends, training focus areas that will support scheduled deliverables.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Quality Engineers, and Inspection Teams to document and ensure the right corrective or course of action is best for the customer and part being manufactured.
• Create and edit First Articles of Inspection and ensure compliance to AS9102.
• Reviews, analyzes, and reports on quality discrepancies related to assembly, process, mechanical, hydraulic and fuel system lines, and electrical & electro-mechanical systems.
• Attend and brief assigned Cost Center meetings and address any requested actions.
• Investigates problems and develops corrective actions for recurring discrepancies.
• Recommend preventative process and procedural changes to prevent defects.
• Interfaces with manufacturing, engineering, customer, vendor and subcontractor representatives to ensure requirements are met.
• Build briefings that are focused on manufacturing metric trends with recommended Corrective Actions to help stop negative trends and prevent additional negative trends.
• Must be able to review and analyze metrics that Cost Center Operational and Program Management leaders need to ensure their teams success.
• Informs management quickly of any negative trends or detrimental quality risks that potentially affect manufacturing schedule.
• Actively participates in maintaining, updating and implementing the Quality plan.
• Documenting Material Review Board Discrepancies (MRB) and developing MRB dispositions as level’s of responsibilities, knowledge and experience increases.

Requirements

Principal Quality Analyst: Bachelors Degree with 5 years of experience in Quality; or Masters Degree with 3 years of experience in Quality; or PhD with 1 year of experience in Quality. Must have strong Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Edge and other office systems experience. Develop, collect, and track metrics for process health and performance monitoring. Experience developing, modifying, applying, and maintaining quality evaluation & control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished products. Experience editing, reviewing and implementing methods and procedures for inspect