Quality Engineer at Northrop Grumman in Warner Robins, Georgia

Job Description:

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world's biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems sector is seeking a Quality Engineer to join our growing team of diverse professionals in Warner Robins, Georgia. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to support an exciting new production program and help to develop new processes and workflows.

Responsibilities:

• 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 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
• Ability to perform effective root cause analysis investigations
• 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
• Ensures continuous compliance to the ISO9001:2008/AS9100 standard

Qualifications:




Basic Qualifications:

• Must have one of the following:
  • Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with a minimum of 2 years of quality or technical experience
  • Master's degree in a STEM discipline
• Familiarity with ISO9001:2008/AS9100 specifications and standards, Quality Management System, customer requirements flow down, Quality planning, principles, methods, and standards
• Knowledge of continuous improvements tools and corrective and preventive action requirements and root cause analysis tools.
• Ability to collect, analyze, organize and present quality metrics
• Must have or be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secret security clearance
• Must be able to travel as needed (up to 10% of the time)
• Must be able to work on-site in Warner Robins, Georgia

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of ISO9001:2008/AS9100 specifications and standards, Quality Management System, customer requirements flow down, Quality planning, principles, methods, and standards
• Develop and execute data queries to replace manually generated charts of Quality and Supplier Quality metrics which track and analyze quality performance and trends
• Ability to define requirements needed for Quality process improvements
• Develop a databases to track realized savings and forecast future savings for Mission Assurance
• Working knowledge of SAP, MES, Tableau, Microsoft Excel, Access, Project, Word, Power Point, Visio, Visual Basic, HTML, JIRA, CAD, Regression Analysis, Analysis of Variance, UML, Object Oriented Database Design, MiniTab

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions. Apply Now