Sr. Principal Quality Analyst

Clearance required for start: Secret. Travel: 25% of the time. No relocation assistance available.

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. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, and bringing your whole self to work. You will develop and implement program quality plans, processes, and procedures using statistical quality control statistics, lean manufacturing concepts, and six-sigma tools and analyses.

Our programs are built on equal parts of curiosity and collaboration. Our combined effort means our customers can connect and defend millions of people around the world. As a leading global security company, we provide innovative systems, products, and solutions to our customers worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that performance, products, and services conform to established company, customer, and regulatory standards.
• Review, analyze, and report on quality discrepancies related to assembly, maintenance, and processes.
• Investigate problems and develop disposition and corrective actions for recurring discrepancies.
• Interface with manufacturing, engineering, customer, supplier, and subcontractor representatives to ensure compliance with requirements.
• Recommend corrective actions, dispositions, and modifications.
• Evaluate maintenance processes and equipment to determine capability, improve efficiency, and assure quality standards.
• Perform quality assurance inspections, process audits, and surveillance on all phases of maintenance and sustainment.
• Assure all material components used comply with applicable standards.
• Determine procedures for controlling product and process quality.
• Review quality trend analyses and related quality performance and customer satisfaction data.
• Maintain liaison with manufacturing, engineering, material management, supplier, and customer personnel to resolve quality problems.
• Review and extract contract requirements for implementation in documented processes and procedures executable by the workforce.
• Collaborate with Program Management in the development of performance metrics in the areas of customer satisfaction, product/service performance, process performance, and supplier/subcontractor performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 8 years of Aerospace experience handling and loading munitions on fighter or bomber aircraft; or Master's degree and 6 years of experience.
• Weapons Evaluation and Training experience.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships at all levels.
• Must be able to work in-person/on-site.
• Proficient in using Microsoft Word, MS Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Must be willing to work a flexible work schedule that may include extended shifts, holidays, and weekends, and support on-call status for 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week, 365 days a year.
• Must have and maintain a valid U.S. passport.
• Accept customer-furnished quarters for a period up to 120 days away from primary work location and comply with mobility requirements.
• Ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Government Top Secret clearance.
• Interpreting engineering/inspection requirements per customer specifications.
• Experience extracting metrics to track process health.
• Test and Evaluation experience.
• Experience in QMS development, implementation, and maintenance to the ISO 9001 or AS9100 standard.

Pay

Primary level salary range: $117,500.00 - $176,300.00. The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.