Principal Engineer Mission Assurance

4 days ago


Dulles, United States Northrop Grumman Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Engineer Mission Assurance to join our team at Northrop Grumman. As a key member of our Mission Assurance team, you will be responsible for implementing and enforcing mission/flight assurance plans for individual spacecraft flight hardware programs.

Key Responsibilities
  • Implement and administer an effective Safety and Mission Assurance program in compliance with applicable customer contracts and guidelines.
  • Ensure contractual program requirements are flowed down internally and to suppliers, and ensure compliance with customer contract, industry, and organizational requirements.
  • Perform verification and validation requirements have been met, and review practices, procedures, and processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness and reduce risk to product quality.
  • Interpret customer technical and mission assurance requirements, ensuring integration to program plans, specifications, and product drawings, as well as verification of implementation.
  • Provide oversight in discrepancy review, failure investigations, as well as cause and corrective action determinations, and lead root cause and problem-solving analyses.
  • Represent Mission Assurance at various review boards, including Configuration Control Board (CCB), Engineering Change Board (ECR), Risk and Opportunity Management Board (ROMB), Corrective Action Board (CAB), Readiness Reviews, and Failure/Material Review Board (FRB/MRB).
  • Support tracking and reporting metrics, mission-specific risk issues, and develop and present internal and external Mission Assurance briefings.
  • Ensure Risk Management activities (dFMEA, pFMEA) are executed and maintained according to standards and procedures.
  • Communicate the impacts and execution of all program, division quality, and organizational requirements to all levels of the organization, and may communicate to Government and customer representatives as well as subcontracts.
  • Provide S&MA inputs and baseline estimations for future program proposal efforts, and provide input and support during AS9100 audits.
  • Lead the S&MA team in support of mission success for large contracts and product lines, and control Account Manager (CAM) for the S&MA budget on the contract.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related STEM field.
  • 9 years of relevant experience.
  • Top Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain SCI.
  • U.S. Citizenship.
  • Active TS/SCI.
  • Able to read engineering documentation and inspect drawings and parts lists, inspection plans, and supplemental instructions.
  • Extensive knowledge base in Cause Analysis tools, such as Ishikawa, FMEA, DOE, KTA (Kepner Tregoe Analysis).
  • Previous experience managing elements of AS/ISO/CMMI certified internal and external organization.
  • Experience interfacing with DCMA and Aerospace representatives.
  • Control Account Management experience with Earned Value Management practices.
  • Familiarity with industry workmanship standards; NASA, MIL, NAS, IPC.
What We Offer

Northrop Grumman offers a competitive salary range of $133,000 - $179,000, as well as a variety of benefits, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

We are 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.



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