Sr. Principal Quality Engineer
Northrop Grumman
- Baltimore, MD
- $115,400-173,200 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place. Performs oversight and monitoring of program risks and opportunities.
- Assists in the performance of independent quality reviews to ensure compliance with contractual and customer requirements.
- Audits quality systems for deficiency identification and correction assuring process and product quality. 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.
- Senior Principal Quality Engineer: Bachelor's + 9 years of exp; Master's + 7 years of exp; PhD + 4 years of exp. 13 years in leu of degree.
- Active Secret Clearance and the ability to obtain a TS/SCI.
- Solid written and verbal interpersonal, communication skills and confidence to brief senior management with solid foundation in Mission Assurance applications.
- Ability to coordinate customer communications across multiple, diverse sites.
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams to resolve problems or issues.
- Trained and experienced in performing Root Cause Corrective Action
- Experience working with electrical or mechanical design requirements and specifications.
- Experience with SAP
- Active Top-Secret Clearance with SCI
- Experience working on Space hardware.
- Manufacturing process knowledge a plus.
- Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering
- Experience in planning and organizing activities across multiple manufacturing locations.
- Experience with AS9100/ISO9001 Quality Management
- Record of increasing responsibility supporting manufacturing, electrical, and mechanical engineering organizations
- Experience in evaluating circuit card assemblies for workmanship issues.
- Have experience in quality planning.
- Mentor lesser experienced engineers on areas of manufacturing