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Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Manager Supplier Quality 1

Quality EngineeringPosted on Nov 10
Full-timeBaltimore, MD, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and at least 5 years of relevant professional experience in a manufacturing, quality, and/or engineering role, or a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and at least 3 years of relevant professional experience in a manufacturing, quality, and/or engineering role.
  • At least 1 year serving as a team lead or people leader/manager.
  • Ability and willingness to travel domestically up to 25%.
  • U.S. citizenship.
  • Knowledge in manufacturing, special processes, inspection, electronics, or auditing to assist the team in reviewing nonconforming material.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of supplier quality engineers supporting containment of material for AMS programs.
  • Drive continuous improvement through the SQRT process.
  • Work with Operations to initiate effective containment, investigation, and countermeasure activities to prevent defect outflow.
  • Engage with Cell QE, Program, Mission Assurance, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain to evaluate and disposition nonconforming product, including use-as-is, repair, and scrap decisions, and ensure proper documentation and traceability.
  • Visit supplier sites as necessary to support on-site root cause investigations, audits, and verification that corrective actions have been implemented.
  • Understand contractual flow-downs, industry-standard specifications, and drawing requirements.
  • Document, track, and report potential supplier product or process nonconformances; collaborate with other program supplier quality engineers and management to escalate nonconformances that may critically affect multiple programs.
  • Analyze quality metrics and trends related to nonconformances, rework, supplier performance, and acceptance issues; recommend and help implement improvement actions.
  • Support internal, customer, and regulatory audits and assessments related to supplier quality, configuration, and documentation.
  • Assure compliance with contractual requirements for quality, risk management, safety, process improvement, and supplier quality.
  • Support division/business-unit reporting through data collection, analysis, and preparation of charts and presentation materials for leadership reviews.
  • Coordinate staffing activities, including workforce-planning inputs, onboarding support, and alignment of resources to program needs.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience facilitating Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) activities.
  • Experience in micro-electronics or printed circuit board manufacturing.
  • Defense industry experience, including interfacing with suppliers.
  • Experience in a quality or supplier quality role.
  • SAP Business System experience.
  • Experience with ISO 9001 / AS9100 Quality Management System certification processes.

About the Company

Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Northrop Grumman builds military aircraft, missiles, rocket motors, satellites, and electronic systems, mostly for the American military and allied governments. It designed the B-2 stealth bomber and built NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope ever sent to space. The company works through four businesses: aircraft, missiles and ammunition, radar and communications systems, and space hardware such as satellites and solid rocket boosters. Most revenue comes from long-term government contracts, many of them classified. Its roots go back to Northrop Aircraft, founded in 1939, and it took its name after buying Grumman in 1994 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Falls Church, VA
Founded
1939

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