Mission Assurance Engineer 2/3

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: None 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.  Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Mission Assurance Engineer – Level 2 or Level 3 to join our team in Redondo Beach, CA.         In this role you will implement and enforce mission assurance plans for individual spacecraft flight hardware programs addressing design, manufacturing, integration, and test activities in accordance with company and contractual requirements. You will work as a member of an integrated product team inside of the NG Safety & Mission Assurance organization. Within this organization, you will work with various disciplines to address technical issues, meet program requirements, and ensure mission success. You will interface with customers, vendors, and with NG Manufacturing, Integration & Test, and Engineering organizations to identify and resolve mission/flight assurance issues.   This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.   In this job, you will: • Perform detailed verification and reconciliation of production, test, and quality records across multiple systems to ensure data completeness and accuracy. • Assist in preparing and releasing quality reports (e.g., inspection records, test results, nonconformance summaries) with a focus on traceability and accuracy. • Collect and organize data related to product quality, process defects, and nonconformances; support basic trend analysis and reporting for cross‑functional teams. • Assist in developing and maintaining quality plans, inspection checklists, and work instructions to support consistent execution on the production floor. • Support definition and control of quality characteristics for products and processes, helping to update control plans and quality documentation as requirements evolve, and participate in process verification activities (e.g., checklists, forms, templates) to ensure procedures are followed and records are audit‑ready. • Support corrective action processes by gathering and validating objective evidence, tracking closure, and ensuring documentation meets internal and customer requirements. • Identify process gaps or recurring documentation errors and support continuous improvement initiatives by proposing improvements, tracking actions, verifying implementation, and ensuring updates are reflected in procedures and forms. • Assist senior quality engineers in reviewing nonconformances, documenting dispositions, and helping manage nonconformance records across the facility, including tracking closure and ensuring rework/scrap/repair actions are properly recorded and documentation is accurate and complete. • Coordinate with engineering, manufacturing, and production floor personnel (inspection, assembly, operations) to ensure quality requirements and documentation are understood and followed, quality issues are resolved, and production is supported. • Provide cl