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Principal Engineer Mission Assurance
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-California-Sunnyvale
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time Description 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 - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. We are looking for you to join our team as a Principal Engineer Mission Assurance based in Sunnyvale, CA . Note: This is an on-site position. We do offer flexible work schedules such as 9/80. This position will support an established production program within Marine Systems’ Machinery Systems Operating Unit. The successful candidate will serve as a key Quality and Mission Assurance partner to Program Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Global Supply Chain, Supplier Quality, subcontractors, suppliers, and the customer. The role is focused on disciplined production execution, product and process quality, program performance, contractual compliance, corrective action, customer acceptance, risk reduction, and continuous improvement. The Mission Assurance Engineer will work independently and across multidisciplinary teams to define and monitor mission-assurance processes; identify and resolve quality issues; assess program risks and opportunities; provide objective evidence of product conformity; and help ensure contractual, technical, quality, safety, reliability, maintainability, and customer requirements are met. The position requires the ability to travel up to 25%. 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. What You Will Get to Do: • Serve as a Quality and Mission Assurance focal point for an established production program, partnering with Program Management and functional organizations to support cost, schedule, technical, quality, and delivery commitments. • Define and monitor mission-assurance plans, processes, metrics, and work products that support disciplined production execution and program success. • Apply quality engineering and program quality practices to production planning, hardware execution, inspection, acceptance, and delivery. • Identify product and process nonconformances; lead root cause and corrective action activities; analyze trends; and drive effective preventive actions. • Develop and communicate quality and program-performance metrics, variances, trends, risks, opportunities, and recovery actions to Program Management, functional leadership, and customers. • Assess program risks and opportunities using quantitative and predictive analysis, provide data-driven input to resource decisions, and elevate risk-acceptance concerns. • Review contractual and technical requirements, establish compliance pathways, verify requirements and flow-downs, and support contract and customer reviews. • Verify that measurement, inspection, and test methods satisfy drawing, specification, contractual, and acceptance criteria. • Participate in applicable technical, production-readiness, test-readiness, and customer reviews to assess requirement c